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Jim McMahon launched Sweetwater LLC (https://www.cleanairpurewater.com) in September 2002. Jim has worked in the environmental field since 1974 when he launched one of the first recycling collection programs in the country. He worked in recycling, launching several successful business ventures and establishing the first intentional variable collection rate structure in the country. He started one of the first recycling collection programs in the US in 1974 in the Fremont District of Seattle. Then launched the Washington State Recycling Hotline and started the Washington State Recycling Association. After that he started Seattle Recycling Inc. A contract with the City of Seattle for the SORT Project launched a home collection program in combination with a variable trash rate study. Following this he worked for the City of Seattle developing that city's first recycling strategy. Next he launched a region wide aluminum can recovery program in collaboration with Kaiser Aluminum.In 1987 he took a one year sabbatical in the French West Indies. Upon his return to the states, he moved to Denver where he began working as a freelance writer and sought a way to work with rivers, since he had long been attracted to flowing water. In 1995 he got a chance to launch The Nature Conservancy’s Mackinaw River Project in Illinois. Then, in January 1999, he was able to return to the West when he accepted a position with Grand Canyon Trust, working on the Virgin River in southwest Utah. Jim has authored an essay reflecting on the development of recycling entitled ‘Closing The Loop’ in the book The Next West, published by Island Press in 1997. While living in Denver he wrote policy papers and opinion editorials on western land use issues as a senior fellow for Independence Institute, a non-profit think tank. He has also published numerous articles, editorials, and short fiction. Jim holds a BS in Ecology from the University of Illinois, coursework toward an MA in Deep Ecology from Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO and has extensive training in river ecology. He studied the ancient energy healing methods of the Quechua Indians of Peru with the Four Winds Society located in Park City. In addition, Jim has been researching his Irish roots and obtained Irish citizenship. Someone once said that Jim has a passion for learning and is always up to something.He has a son, Emrys, and a daughter, Jacqueline. He works from his home in Durango, Colorado.His favorite quote: ‘Life doesn’t get any better than this….Specialties: water purification and filtration