Nathaniel Meyer grew up in Readfield, Maine, a small New England town.  He spent much of his childhood outdoors and developed an early appreciation for the wonders of nature.

Nathaniel moved to Tarawa, Kiribati, a tiny atoll in the Central Pacific. He was introduced to a new land, new people, and a new culture.  He was enthralled by the diversity of life, but quickly saddened to learn from the island people that their way of life was being threatened.  When he learned that the rising sea levels caused by global warming would make this island virtually uninhabitable within the next half century, Nathaniel knew he had found a cause to fight for.

Through these early experiences, Nathaniel developed his passion for protecting the environment, and entered Oberlin College to become an ecologist.  At Oberlin, Nathaniel majored in Biology and Environmental Studies, conducting the City of Oberlin’s baseline greenhouse gas inventory as his senior project. He also reaffirmed his awe of nature by studying tropical ecology in Costa Rica. Yet, the more he studied the problems facing the environment, the more he realized that research was not the answer.  He found that the world had plenty of science, information, and technology to solve problems like global warming, but the problem was getting those ideas and solutions implemented.  

After graduating from Oberlin, Nathaniel came to Green Corps seeking the tools that would enable him to mobilize the kind of people power it will take to move these solutions forward.  Armed with skills from Green Corps classroom training, Nathaniel is working on Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, organizing students at Penn State to pressure their Administration to retire its 80-year-old on-campus coal-fired steam plant and lead the country toward a clean energy future.