Daniel Rossi-Keen
Daniel Rossi-Keen, Ph.D., is the co-owner of eQuip Books, a community bookstore in Aliquippa and the executive director of RiverWise, a nonprofit employing sustainable development practices to create a regional identity around Beaver County's rivers.
Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Those of you who follow along with the work of RiverWise, the nonprofit organization I have the privilege of leading, may have heard that we recently received a second round of funding from the US Department of Energy. The award, provided by the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, is part of a program known as the Energizing Rural Communities Prize. Last July, in Phase One of the program, DOE announced 67 awardees, of which RiverWise was one. Utilizing funds from our initial Phase One award
Daniel Rossi-Keen
February 27, 2026
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For longer than I care to admit, my basement was overwhelmingly disorganized. The disorganization in my basement began when we first moved into our home a little more than a decade ago. The area wasn’t large enough for everything I was trying to store in it. I didn’t have the right shelving, containers, or patience to create a good system to manage all the stuff I was trying to shove into such a small space. And, since I didn’t regularly need most of the things I was storing, it made it easy to
Daniel Rossi-Keen
February 27, 2026
6 min read
Hindsight is 2020As we near the end of 2025, we are quickly approaching six years since the world was turned upside down by a global pandemic that eventually killed more than 7 million people and caused devastation that’s still being felt economically, socially, emotionally and spiritually. COVID-19 affected everybody — there were earlyThe BridgeOwen Rossi-KeenNew NewsletterThis is our newsletter. This week: Rope a DopeThis is the content of the post, introducing the main topic and setting the s
Daniel Rossi-Keen
February 14, 2026
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Daniel Rossi-Keen
February 14, 2026
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Daniel Rossi-Keen
February 14, 2026
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This month’s installment of Community Matters was originally written nearly six years ago on March 19, 2020. On that day, all of Pennsylvania’s non-essential businesses were forced to close because of the growing threat of COVID-19. Over the coming days and weeks, additional measures were enacted at all levels of society to reduce the spread and impact of the virus. Ten weeks later, on May 25, 2020 George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, sparking a public outcry ab
Daniel Rossi-Keen
December 15, 2025
4 min read
I grew up in the 1950s in the 1980s. That’s an odd sentence. So, let me say it again. I grew up in the 1950s in the 1980s. My hometown of Clearfield was, and very much still is, a small, rural community in western Pennsylvania.
Daniel Rossi-Keen
November 3, 2025
8 min read
Have you ever stopped to think for a second about how a fish experiences water? Just so we’re clear, I understand that this is an odd question.Maybe it’s because I am an avid fisherman. Maybe it’s because I am a recovering academic. Or, maybe I just have too much time on my hands. Regardless of the reason, when I’m on the river, I often think about such things.I wonder what it must be like to be a fish. I wonder what they experience, and what they are thinking when they are ripped out of the wat
Daniel Rossi-Keen
October 7, 2025
6 min read