CURRENT MISSION

I'm working to make energy geeks sexy and famous :)

ABOUT ME

I'm renewable energy and sustainable innovations enthusiast, promoting green and smart energy as opportunity for communities and startups. We do cool things like open-air solar-powered energy hackathons and other activities to grow the makers culture in the energy field.

I love exploring new ideas, hunting for hidden meanings, understanding how things work - and sharing this knowledge. The passion to making complex ideas understandable, digestible, un-scary and un-boring has led me to 2 very important milestones (or movements to be better characteristics) of my life: Greencubator and TEDxKyiv.

PHILOSOPHY

"Night Flight" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry resonates very well with my personal philosophy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

For now I had just one, but truly fun Couchsurf - was hosted in Hannover by vet students, and it was a lot to exchange and learn. And cooking Ukrainian-German-Dutch borshch (Ukrainian traditional dish) for 12 people was a real fun :)

Interests

My biggest love beyond my loved ones and my mission is in bridges. Yes, I love bridges: seen, walking or driving through them, reading about them and their creators, sometimes modeling them with my daughter.

I love jazz, impressionist art, Banksi, Interesni Kazky, The Beatles, duets by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and enjoy great movies (from 12 Angry Man to Skyfall and Inception). And Steve Jobs gives a lot of inspiration for my work.

Cooking for friends, working with power-tools and home improvement, washing dishes also make me smile :)

• arts
• culture
• cooking
• modeling
• walking
• news
• movies
• reading
• jazz
• hunting
• business
• communications

Music, Movies, and Books

My favorite movies are "12 Angry Men", "Forrest Gump", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Gravity", "Inception", "The Lake House".
My favorite authors are Stanislav Lem, Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I'm currently reading "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pircing - truly amazing book! And surely, "The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy" is my most quoted book :)
My musical tastes vary from classic jazz to modern electronic. I love old good Radiohead and Daftpunk along with Ocean Elzy and Zemfira.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

TeslaCamp - open-air off-grid solar powered energy hackathon.
See the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF2i9ib3uek and check this BBC article http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29840214
TEDxKyiv - being the host and feeling the energy flow between of 500+ people and great speakers on stage
Greencubator EnergyCamp Kyiv 2010 - it was one of the best EnergyCamp's we've done!
Seeing Renoir's portrait of Jeanne Samary in Pushkin Museum

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm also communications trainer, currently helping students improve their presentation and public speaking skills - so I can help converting the meaning into world-changing talks and presentations.
Also I lecture about green business models and social innovations for sustainability.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ukraine