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WHO WE ARE.
Brigid Shea, Click HERE for Terry Moore

Brigid Shea is a principal and co-founder of Carbon Shrinks LLC, an Austin consulting firm specializing in carbon reduction and community stakeholder strategies.  A former award-winning journalist, environmental advocate, and elected official, Shea has been advising businesses and governments on environmental and community issues for over 20 years.  Her clients have included CH2Mhill, Earth Tech, Green Mountain Energy, City of Austin, PBS&J, Loomis Engineering, Vignette, Seton Healthcare Network, LCRA, SDC Communities, and Public Citizen.

In its new practice, Carbon Shrinks LLC is advising one the largest carbon emitters in Central Texas, Texas Lehigh Cement, how to reduce their carbon emissions and take advantage of any early action benefits.

After nearly a decade in broadcasting, mainly at National Public Radio stations, Shea took up environmental work in response to James Hansen’s 1988 congressional testimony on the threat of Global Warming.  She co-founded the Texas state chapter of Clean Water Action in 1988 helping communities push for tougher environmental laws.  Shea also headed CWA’s national campaign to ban the use of Ozone Depleting Chemicals, passing local laws in major cities across the US. 

In 1991, Shea helped found and direct the Save Our Springs Coalition in Austin.  She gathered community support to pass by ballot initiative one of the toughest water quality laws in the nation.  The SOS Initiative was the subject of the award-winning, national documentary, Unforseen.   Shea was elected citywide to the Austin City Council in 1993 where she championed environmental and quality-of-life initiatives, helping to secure the first wind-power contract for Austin Energy.  She retired at the end of her term in 1996 after the birth of her first son, later founding an environmental consulting practice, Brigid Shea & Associates.

Shea has been a frequent commentator on radio and television as well as a guest speaker on environmental issues.  She is a founding board member of Liveable City and also on the boards of Solar Austin and Texas Solar Energy Society. Shea is a graduate of the 2000-01 Leadership Austin Class.  She received a BA in Liberal Studies from the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota and was a Rockefeller Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill and a Research Fellow at Yale Divinity School.  She is a native of North Dakota.  She and her husband, John Umphress, have two children.

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