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About Me

Diana Hasegan is vice-president of Project within LSRS and has been with the organization from the very beginning of its existence. Diana is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Lafayette College (USA) where she studied two degrees: a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business. She also completed her studies with Honors in both her degrees by writing a Joint Thesis on the topic of "Impediments in the Absorption of European Union Structural Funding Given to the Romanian Transportation Sector." She has also been inducted into four National and International Academic Honors Societies (Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Epsilon and Sigma Xi) and has received the Tau Beta Pi National Scholarship. She distinguished herself at Lafayette through working with professors on advanced research in Carbon Modelling and Alternative Energy Resources and through various academic and campus service programs such as Reeder Scholars, Resident Advisor, Writing Associate, Senior Class Fund Agent, Admission Ambassador, and Academic Tutor. Starting in August 2010 she will be joining a US national non-profit organization.

Location:
United States, Bethlehem, PA
Current organization:
Lafayette College
Past organizations:
Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Epsilon, CODECS
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
green technologies (developing expertise), Project & Team Management, Advocacy & activism
I am:
Activist, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Global soul, Job-seeker, Student, World traveler
Languages:
English, Romanian, French, German, Chinese
My website links:
My CV
Universities:
Lafayette College, Lingnan University
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a better future for everyone.

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thinking with sustainability in mind

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  • A reply on Talk: Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle

    Jun 5 2009: The earth is a closed system even if you reduce the boundaries to just around the earth's atmosphere. The fact that we receive sun's energy does not make it an open system because the sun's energy is useless without everything else that is available on earth. And since the resources on Earth are limited and enclosed into a system (unless we send out stuff floating in the universe and never gets back... cause we don't get so much stuff falling into our atmosphere) we are living in an enclosed system. This closed system will only be able to function based on equilibrium... and we play too much with this balance thinking that we are more powerful, when in fact we are the most fragile and least powerful as individuals. Humans' only strength is communication and collective action. But this last hundred years has proven this was also our biggest weakness.
    Thus, I am also extremely excited and interested, but scared to death by the weight of our actions. It is too late to be pessimistic!

  • A comment on Talk: Joachim de Posada: Don't eat the marshmallow!

    May 25 2009: This is not really news to anyone who has studied a little bit of economics: the choice between immediate consumption vs. future consumption/saving.

    Also, I would be really interested to see what would some of the genius and renowned people who have struggled with education (i.e. Einstein, Bill Gates) have done with the marshmallow?

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