Beneath the Surface: How Kerry Strout Grantham Negotiates Sustainable HumanGrowth about a very different kind of energy
In the early 2010s, Kerry Strout Grantham trekked along Maine’s Appalachian Trail — not to find moose or loons or to forge rivers or brave the 100-mile wilderness . Instead, she hiked and paddled to find other hikers and to ask them a few questions about a very different kind of energy than they had been using to scramble over Maine’s chaotic, boulder-filled trails.And what did she learn? “That thru-hikers are really stinky,” she said. “You had to position yourself upwind.
Though she is working at the same community–technology gap, Grantham is now focusing on marine energy technologies, which create clean energy from ocean and river waves, tides, and currents. And instead of stinky thru-hikers, she is partnering with coastal, island, and remote communities that do want to bring these newer renewables home but are unsure how, exactly, to make that happen.
She earned her scuba-diving certification after high school and started leading shark dives for tourists and training for search-and-rescue missions on Saipan, an island in the Pacific Ocean. Even then, Grantham’s love for the ocean was paired with a hardwired curiosity about people — ironically, a trait associated more with chatty hairdressers than introverted scientists.
Even though she grew up hearing pro-development rationales from her father , Grantham saw a need for a more careful, nuanced approach to human expansion.“Humans need a place to go and grow,” Kerry Strout Grantham said.
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