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ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES ARE PRESENTED

 

 

The most recent event was hosted by Nora Maccoby on August 20th in Bethesda, Maryland.  These presentations discussed some of the most promising advanced energy technologies being brought to the public at this time.   Click HERE to review the presentations and contact the speakers.

 

Follow-on events are scheduled in Washington D.C. as early as this fall, to include National Press Club briefings and meetings with members of Congress.  Next August, the 14th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ICCF 14) will also be held in Washington D.C., an event that has already secured $250K in sponsorship funding.  ICCF 14 is being organized by Dr. David Nagel and is sponsored in part by members of the

International Society for Condensed Matter Nuclear Science

 

 

 

 

 

A TWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM DEVOTED TO THE WORLD’S WATERS

A SPECIAL EVENT OF THE GREEN SALON

 

June 16-17, 2007

Swedish Embassy, Washington, D.C.

 

BLUE SALON SPEAKERS/BIOS/PRESENTATIONS

FRESH WATER SCHEDULE – JUNE 16TH

SALT WATER SCHEDULE – JUNE 17TH

INTERVIEW WITH NORA MACCOBY ON JUNE 17TH

Clean and healthy global water systems are as critical to our survival as is clean air. The average adult human body is somewhere between 50-65% water. We are made more of water, than any other element. Without it, we cannot survive.

 

Global climate changes and human development have had a drastic negative impact on the world's fresh and salt water supplies.

 

More than one billion people lack access to a safe supply of drinking water. As population grows and development needs call for increased allocations of water for cities, agriculture and industries, the pressure on water resources intensifies, leading to tensions, conflicts among users, and excessive strain on the environment.  

 

Mountain glaciers are drying up, depleting streams and river supplies. Pollution and overfishing are destroying the oceans, especially the deep oceans - the planet’s “cradle of life” where 90% of life on this planet resides. If action is not taken, than we are slated for a mass extinction of marine life within the next 25 years.

 

As the Earth and its elements change, so must we adapt and change our behavior. 

 

Quitting bad habits requires new habits. Old roads and short term thinking have taken us to the precipice of extinction. Are we ready to walk a new road? 

 

Are we ready to take the "risks" necessary to unburden ourselves from species destroying behavior and instead invest in the elements of which we are made? Invest in ourselves? Invest in new research, new technology, new solutions? Will we stand and join together to solve these seemingly insurmountable obstacles?

 

As stewards, as a species that is deeply interconnected to other life forms on Earth - we have choices. 

 

Is our world view one of lack or one of abundance? If one seed can create 10,000 seeds than it bears credence that if we work WITH nature, not AGAINST it, than we can all share in the bounty that is Earth.

 

But this requires addressing established standards that may be outdated. What does "growth" really mean? What is "progress"? How do we assign value to life and the precious resources that keep us alive? 

 

The present is here. The future is in our hands. May we face these challenges and move forward with solutions. 

 

 

 

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The Blue Salon was discussed in a June 20th BizBash article and will be discussed in a September Washington Life article. 

 

The October 2006 Green Salon on alternative energy was recently covered by Washington Life magazine and Infinite Energy magazine. 

 

An April 2007 Green Salon event focused on environmental solutions to human waste, and featured Dennis Miller of the Solena Group, Tracy Bowen, Director of the Alice Ferguson Foundation, and Worldwatch Instituteamong others.

 

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Active Sponsors and Volunteers’ Biographies

 

Ambassador Gunnar Lund was trained in economics, political science and Russian at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm.  As a Fulbright scholar he studied at Columbia University in New York, from where he holds a Master's degree in Economics and International Law.  In the seventies and eighties, he pursued a career as a civil servant in the Swedish Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, and served for several years as the Finance ministry's representative to the OECD in Paris. In 1988, Gunnar Lund was given his first political assignment when he was appointed Deputy Finance Minister (State Secretary) with responsibility for budget, economic policy and international affairs.

After the election in 1991, Gunnar Lund worked in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as Ambassador and negotiator on issues of defense and armaments as well as on Russian affairs. After the election in 1994, Gunnar Lund was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister (State Secretary) for European Affairs.  In that capacity, he helped design Sweden's policy during its first years in the European Union and served as his country's chief negotiator for the Amsterdam and Nice treaties.  In 1999, Gunnar Lund was named Sweden's Ambassador to the European Union. He returned to Sweden in 2002 when he was appointed Minister and Member of the Swedish Cabinet with responsibility for international economic and financial affairs as well as for public administration.

 

Nora H. Maccoby is an award-winning screenwriter (Buffalo Soldiers, Bongwater), television producer of VH1’s new show Stephanie Spring, author, and lecturer with expertise in alternative energy technologies. She is co-founder of Nature's Partners, a non-profit foundation devoted to energy literacy/education.  As Vice President of The Maccoby Group, she consults with a broad range of energy users and influentials, including members of Congress, the Department of Defense, International Fund for China's Environment, the State of California, the government of Grenada, the New Energy Congress, private industry and new energy technology entities.  She is also the President of Walker Enterprises LLC, Vice President of The Stella Group LTD, and a member of the board of directors of Potomac Energy Projects, all of which are serving society by developing emerging clean energy strategic markets and technologies.

 

 

Roshanak Ameli-Tehrani is Founder and President of Avand Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting dialogue and fellowship between U.S. and Iran at the private, public, civil society and people-to-people.  Roshanak's professional and educational experience has focused on social entrepreneurship as a means of creating sustainable social change from the ground-up.  Roshanak has worked in Nepal, India, Iran, the United States, and Latin America on a wide range of development initiatives including micro-nutrition, women-run cooperatives, micro-credit, and urban renewal.  In addition to her work with Avand, Roshanak is also working on how renewables technology can be used address the energy and water needs of the world’s urban poor.  Roshanak received her MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government where she was awarded the Powell/Trager Public Service Fellowship as well as being named a Littauer Fellow. 

 

 

Michael Mateer is an Audio Engineering graduate of Arizona State University and has extensive experience providing audio/video support for events such as the Blue Salon.  Michael is an excellent example of how home-schooling produces the most illuminated and altruistic citizens of our nation.

 

Mara G. Haseltine received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art and Art History from Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and her master’s degree from The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, with a double degree in New Genres and Sculpture. She has worked as a sculptor throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and at the National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago in the Port of Spain, Trinidad. Mara G. Haseltine currently resides in New York City and works out of Brooklyn, New York.  Mara’s love of the natural sciences and form has been a constant theme throughout her work. Her work is figurative in that even her most abstract forms relate to the internal-external body, as well as human psychology. As the artist states, “We are supremely lucky as water-based life forms to be blessed with the consciousness to enjoy the beauty of our planet and have the beginnings of advanced technologies so that we can simultaneously look within ourselves and at the outermost reaches of the cosmos; it is this particular and unique relationship that I explore with my work.”  Mara is available for specialized commission projects.  In addition, her work “Waltz of the Polypeptides” has been made in limited edition components, which are for sale. It can be shown as a whole or separately. The work can be made to any scale. For more information, contact Mara at: mara@calamara.com

Dr. Wazi Ahazbein received his undergraduate degree in computer sciences and his masters degree in humanities. His work in the field of facility managment is well documneted through various publications and corporate reviews. Some of today's most advanced business software solutions are thought to be formulated on some of his basic concepts. Most recently appearing on the LookOnBusiness radio show discussing various options for businesses in terms of facility management software soltuions.

Dr. Michael Maccoby is an anthropologist, psychoanalyst and consultant on leadership, strategy and organization. He is president of The Maccoby Group in Washington, DC and director of the Project on Technology, Work and Character, a not for profit research organization. Dr. Maccoby has been a consultant and coach to leaders in many corporations, unions, universities, the World Bank, and the State and Commerce Departments of the U.S. Government.

Dr. Maccoby became known internationally for his books on leadership and pioneering projects to change work. His bestseller, The Gamesman (1977), describes the motivation of entrepreneurs and managers in high-tech industry. The Leader (1981) describes leadership to improve both competitiveness and the quality of working life. Sweden At the Edge, Lessons for American and Swedish Managers (1991) describes the strengths and weaknesses of Swedish management at home and in the U.S. Why Work? Motivating the New Work Force (second edition, 1995), presents a new theory of motivation to fit the changing values of knowledge workers. It has been translated into 10 languages. He is co-author of Agents of Change: Crossing the Post Industrial Divide (2003) which describes his approach to making organizations more effective.

His article Narcissistic Leaders: the Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons, January, 2000 won a McKinsey Award, which recognizes the two best Harvard Business Review articles published each year. It was the basis for the book, The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership, published in 2003. This fall Harvard Business School Press will publish the paperback, re-titled Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds & Who Fails. His most recent Harvard Business Review article was “Why People Follow the Leader: The Power of Transference” (September 2004).

Dr. Maccoby was facilitator of the National Coalition on Health Care. He has been a consultant on the management of change at health centers, and received grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the study “Leadership for Health Care in the Age of Learning” which was published by the Association of Academic Health Centers in 2001.

Dr. Maccoby has taught at Harvard, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of California, l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Said Business School, Oxford and the Washington School of Psychiatry which he is emeritus professor. From 1978-90, he was director of the Program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development at the J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He received a B.A. in Social Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Social Relations from Harvard. He also studied philosophy at New College, Oxford, and psychoanalysis with Erich Fromm. With Fromm he wrote Social Character in a Mexican Village (1970, reissued in 1996). He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology and the National Academy of Public Administration. He is a member of the boards of The Washington School of Psychiatry, The Albert Shanker Institute, and Our Little Brothers and Sisters, an orphanage in Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, ElSalvador, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia and Peru. He writes “The Human Side” for Research Technology Management.

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