James P. McMahon
Conservationist, Ecologist, Community Collaborator, Entrepreneur, and Writer
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"For landscapes to become healthier, people need to alter their
ways--their land-use practices, their consumption patterns, and their pollution-generating activities. Such changes don't come
easily, a reality that few people know as well as Jim McMahon, a veteran promoter of land health. McMahon understands
the kinds of shifts that are needed today, particularly in rural communities like his own. And he can describe the hard work that first
needs to occur: the research, education, discussion, and planning. Most of all, though, he can talk about the patience that
needs to be stockpiled, drawn on, and periodically replenished if a community based conservation effort is to have hope of
success."
Eric T. Freyfogle
'I use an intuitive approach to conservation and I trust that
the universe will provide guidance and answers, better outcomes than we might
ever be capable of imagining ourselves. I ask people to jointly confront the
issues before us and have found that together we are able to craft truly
creative and unique solutions.' Jim McMahon
' Therefore those who win every battle are not really skillful---those who render others' armies helpless without fighting are the best of all' Sun Tzu The Art of War
As my good friend, Harry Leavitt, and I say to each other: " Life works, if you let it."
"We often get in our own way and if you can let go of a particular outcome, while holding your will to the notion of achievement, anything is possible. Try it, you'll be amazed.
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Jim McMahon
Biography 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 and coursework toward an MA in Deep Ecology from
Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO. For the past three years he has 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 intends to establish an EcoQuest network of dealers in that
country. He’s developed a Clann website at
Professor of Law
University of Illinois
Jim McMahon joined EcoQuest
International in September 2002 after an extensive
search for a business that he
could operate from his home, working for himself. Jim has worked in the
environmental field since 1974 when he launched one of the first recycling
collection programs in the country in Seattle. Jim worked in recycling for 15
years, launching several successful business ventures and establishing the first
intentional variable collection rate structure in the country, until 1987 when
he took a one year sabbatical in the French West Indies. Upon his return to the
states, Jim 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.
He has a son, Emrys, and a daughter, Jacqueline, of whom he is very proud. He works on EcoQuest using both local retail and the Creating Wealth From Home system from his log home overlooking a trout stream in the mountains of southern Utah.
Life doesn’t get any better than this….
Links:
Writer - link under construction (essays, opinion editorials, short fiction, and a former senior fellow for Independence Institute. II link)
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McMahon Family Page - page is under construction