This news of Nora Goldstein’s changing role at BioCycle came out two weeks ago and it was too important not to circle back. 

I am grateful to have had the chance to work and learn together with Nora Goldstein and the entire BioCycle family! Thank you!

BioCycle has been an industry and thought leader for my entire career (longer really). Nora invited me to write a monthly Bioenergy Outlook column in BioCycle from 2007 to 2012. It was a privilege and it kept me intellectually sharp.

I took a job in 2012 in commercial agriculture that was a good job, but I was asked to limit my extracurricular activities. (I wrote a draft column that my boss felt would be received poorly by our paying customers). I really enjoyed my day job, but the position in that unpublished column was not inappropriate.

I have always tried to get players across industries to think more deeply outside their comfort zones. Nora helped me learn where the boundaries of the composting industry were. It is interesting now that moving away from my enjoyable role with BioCycle was for poking too hard at commercial agriculture, not the commercial composting industry.

While I have had a rich professional journey in my 45 years and 10 careers, I proudly include my 5 years as a BioCycle columnist in my CV. Thank you, Nora, for bringing me into your fold and helping me grow up. You made my ideas so much more valuable (and understandable).

It was a privilege to know your parents, Nora. Thanks for picking up your family legacy and making it larger. Well done!