Dar-Lon Chang made national headlines after taking a personal stand against ExxonMobil. In a world drowning in pollution, plastic, and more coming from fossil fuels we all support when we fill our gas tanks, fly, or buy needless plastic, most of us dream of taking such a stand. Inside Climate News‘ headline said:

A Disillusioned ExxonMobil Engineer Quits to Take Action on Climate Change and Stop ‘Making the World Worse’

After 16 years of working for the oil giant, Dar-Lon Chang said Exxon would not address climate change. So he quit the sector for good, and began a new low-carbon life.

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Dar-Lon Chang, who was an engineer for ExxonMobil for more than 15 years, left his career in the fossil fuel industry in Houston and moved to the Geos Neighborhood, a geosolar development in Arvada, Colorado, with his wife and daughter. “I just wanted to go all the way and be a part of a community where my daughter could live fossil fuel-free and net-zero,” he said. “So she could see it was possible.”

Dar-Lon’s LinkedIn profile shows the engineer at heart, who just wants to help engineer a better world, not whistle-blow unless pushed to:

Computational modeling and mechanical engineering researcher with 15 years of energy industry experience innovating simulation tools for design, analysis, and operations; co-invented and led early adoption of technologies for drilling operational recommendations based on evolving data analysis, characterizing potential well performance, and building flexible subsurface geologic models for reservoir simulation.