Penn Loh, Executive Director since 1999 of Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE), is the author or co-author of numerous publications on the topics of environmental justice, population, immigration, and sustainable development, relating community and environmental issues to both scientific research and social justice concerns.
Mr. Loh joined ACE in 1995, first serving as Research and Development Director to 1997 and then as Associate Director. Before joining ACE, he was Research Associate at the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California, where he directed a project on California water transfers and developed a new program called Community Strategies for Sustainability and Environmental Justice.
As a Research Analyst at the Tellus Institute for Resource and Environmental Strategies in Boston, Mr. Loh co-authored reports on residential furnace costs and efficiencies, rate impacts of demand-side management programs, and assessment of residential gas heat pumps. Among other projects, he helped develop integrated resource plans for the Long Island Power Authority and Consumers Gas of Ontario, Canada.
In the fall of 1996, Penn was selected for a two-year term on the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council's Health and Research Subcommittee. He serves or has been on the boards of the New World Foundation, the Environmental Support Center, and the Environmental Leadership Program as well as the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund.
Mr. Loh has an MS from the University of California/Berkeley in Energy and Resources Group and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a guest speaker on environmental justice at numerous classes (1996-present) at the Andover-Newton Theological School, Boston College, Harvard University, MIT, Northeastern University, Tufts, University of Massachusetts-Boston, and the University of Rhode Island.
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