Carbon Roots International (CRI), a non-profit co-founded in 2010 by M. Ryan Delaney ’06, is in the running for a grant from The Great Energy Challenge. The program is aiming to help fight deforestation in Haiti as well as revitalize soil for Haitian farmers. CBI encourages and enables the adoption of sustainable charcoal technologies in Haiti and the broader developing world and its project up for the grant was recently featured in National Geographic.
Delaney holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from Bucknell, as well as master’s degree in sustainability from Arizona State. He was a captain of the cross country and track & field teams at Bucknell.