Liz Finnegan
Arlington, VA
Welcome!
My name is Liz Finnegan, I was born and raised half-Irish half-Korean in Washington DC. I am a insatiable reader, a friend who delights in connecting my friends with each other, a lover of asian noodle soups, and most importantly, a proponant of the renewable energy industry and clean energy movement. I am founder and writer for TheGreenBull.org, and I volunteer with the GW Solar Instute in Washington, DC.
In 2010, I spent 30 days in Megiddo, an ancient city in the Jezreel Valley in modern Israel, as an archaeological volunteer for the Megiddo Expedition. Many have never heard of Megiddo, but it is very well-known by a variant of its Greek name - Armageddon. Thousands of years ago, Megiddo controlled such power and wealth that the ancients depicted the penultimate battle of good and evil on Megiddo’s soil. Now it is abandoned, and archaeologists return once every two years to learn more of its secrets. When you dig through two inches of dirt and you dig 500 years into the past, it’s hard not to be smacked with some intense perspective.
From the birds-eye perspective of volunteers like ourselves, the outcomes of the past seemed inevitable, driven by the forces of economy and conflict. To the people of the past, these outcomes required people with vision to create the future that at the time was still uncertain. This realization made a transformational shift in my mind: to be an active driver of a clean energy future and to create that future that I envision.
My goal is to be a prime mover of the sustainable economy, and to leverage renewables to harness the vast energy we will need to do ever greater and more fantastic things that future archaeologists will study and call inevitable.
Do you share my aspirations? If so, I would love to hear from you! :)
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> My time at Megiddo was featured in Biblical Archaeology Magazine in blog style, and I was a writer! Pretty cool right? Here is a link if you are interested in learning more : digmegiddo2010.wordpress.com
> The background picture to the right is of myself and my siblings - my younger sister on the left, and my younger brother on the right at my cousin's wedding this summer.