A WEB SITE WHERE ENVIRONMENTAL AND
ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES ARE PRESENTED
The most recent event was hosted by Nora Maccoby on August 20thinBethesda,Maryland. These presentations discussed some ofthe most promising advanced energy technologies being brought to the public atthis time. Click HERE to review the presentations and contact thespeakers.
Follow-on events are scheduled inWashingtonD.C.as early as this fall, to include National Press Club briefings and meetingswith members of Congress. Next August, the 14th International Conferenceon Condensed Matter Nuclear Science (ICCF 14) will also be held inWashingtonD.C.,an event that has already secured $250K in sponsorship funding. ICCF 14 is being organized by Dr. David Nagel and issponsored in part by members of the
International Societyfor Condensed Matter Nuclear Science.
ATWO-DAY SYMPOSIUM DEVOTED TO THE WORLD’S WATERS
ASPECIAL 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 WITHNORA MACCOBY ON JUNE 17TH
Clean and healthy global water systemsare as critical to our survival as is clean air. The averageadult human body is somewhere between 50-65% water. We are made more ofwater, than any other element. Without it, we cannot survive.
Global climate changes and humandevelopment have had a drastic negative impact on the world's fresh and saltwater supplies.
More than one billion people lack access to a safesupply of drinking water. As population growsand 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 theenvironment.
Mountain glaciers are drying up, depletingstreams and river supplies. Pollution and overfishing are destroyingthe oceans, especially the deep oceans - the planet’s “cradle oflife” 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 25years.
As the Earth and its elements change, so must we adaptand change our behavior.
Quitting bad habits requires new habits. Old roads andshort term thinking have taken us to the precipice of extinction. Are we readyto walk a new road?
Are we ready to take the "risks" necessaryto unburden ourselves from species destroying behavior and instead invest inthe elements of which we are made? Invest in ourselves? Invest in new research,new technology, new solutions? Will we stand and join together to solvethese seemingly insurmountable obstacles?
As stewards, as a species that is deeplyinterconnected 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 WITHnature, not AGAINST it, than we can all share in the bounty that is Earth.
But this requires addressing established standardsthat may be outdated. What does "growth" really mean? What is"progress"? How do we assign value to life and the precious resourcesthat keep us alive?
The present is here. The future is in ourhands. May we face these challenges and move forward with solutions.
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The Blue Salon was discussed in a June20th BizBash article and will be discussed in a September Washington Life article.
The October 2006 Green Salon on alternative energy wasrecently covered by WashingtonLife magazine and Infinite Energy magazine.
An April2007 Green Salon event focused on environmental solutions to human waste, andfeatured 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
AmbassadorGunnar Lund was trained in economics, political science and Russian at the universities ofUppsalaandStockholm. As a Fulbright scholar he studied atColumbiaUniversity inNew York, from where he holds a Master's degree inEconomics and International Law. Inthe seventies and eighties, he pursued a career as a civil servant in theSwedish Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs, and served for several yearsas the Finance ministry's representative to the OECD inParis. In 1988, Gunnar Lund was given his first political assignment when hewas appointed Deputy Finance Minister (State Secretary) with responsibility forbudget, economic policy and international affairs.
After the election in 1991, Gunnar Lundworked in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as Ambassador and negotiator onissues of defense and armaments as well as on Russian affairs. After theelection in 1994, Gunnar Lund was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister (StateSecretary) for European Affairs. Inthat capacity, he helped designSweden'spolicy during its first years in the European Union and served as his country'schief negotiator for theAmsterdamand Nice treaties. In 1999, GunnarLund was namedSweden'sAmbassador to the European Union. He returned toSwedenin 2002 when he was appointed Minister and Member of the Swedish Cabinet withresponsibility for international economic and financial affairs as well as forpublic administration.
NoraH. Maccoby is an award-winning screenwriter (Buffalo Soldiers, Bongwater),television producer of VH1’s new showStephanieSpring,author, and lecturer with expertise in alternative energy technologies. She isco-founder of Nature's Partners, anon-profit foundation devoted to energy literacy/education. As Vice President of The Maccoby Group, she consults with a broadrange of energy users and influentials, including members of Congress, theDepartment of Defense, International Fund forChina'sEnvironment, the State ofCalifornia, thegovernment ofGrenada,the New Energy Congress, privateindustry and new energy technology entities. She is also the President of Walker Enterprises LLC, VicePresident of The Stella Group LTD,and a member of the board of directors of PotomacEnergy Projects, all of which are serving society by developing emergingclean energy strategic markets and technologies.
Roshanak Ameli-Tehrani isFounder and President of Avand Institute, a non-profit organization dedicatedto promoting dialogue and fellowship betweenU.S.andIranat the private, public, civil society and people-to-people. Roshanak's professional and educationalexperience has focused on social entrepreneurship as a means of creatingsustainable social change from the ground-up. Roshanak has worked inNepal,India,Iran, theUnited States, andLatin America on a wide range of development initiatives includingmicro-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 theenergy and water needs of the world’s urban poor. Roshanak received her MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Governmentwhere she was awarded the Powell/Trager Public Service Fellowship as well asbeing named a Littauer Fellow.
MichaelMateer is an Audio Engineering graduate ofArizonaStateUniversity and hasextensive experience providing audio/video support for events such as the BlueSalon. Michael is an excellentexample of how home-schooling produces the most illuminated and altruisticcitizens of our nation.
Mara G. Haseltine received herundergraduate degree in Studio Art and Art History fromOberlinCollege,Oberlin,Ohio, and her master’s degree from TheSan Francisco Art Institute,San Francisco,California,with a double degree in New Genres and Sculpture. She has worked as a sculptorthroughout theUnited States,Canada, Europe, Asia and atthe National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago in thePort of Spain,Trinidad. Mara G. Haseltinecurrently resides inNew York City and works outofBrooklyn,New York. Mara’s love of the naturalsciences and form has been a constant theme throughout her work. Her work is figurativein that even her most abstract forms relate to the internal-external body, aswell as human psychology. As the artist states, “We are supremely luckyas water-based life forms to be blessed with the consciousness to enjoy thebeauty of our planet and have the beginnings of advanced technologies so thatwe can simultaneously look within ourselves and at the outermost reaches of thecosmos; it is this particular and unique relationship that I explore with mywork.” Mara is available forspecialized commission projects. In addition, her work “Waltz ofthe Polypeptides” has been made in limited edition components, whichare for sale. It can be shown as a whole or separately. The work can be made toany 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 ananthropologist, psychoanalyst and consultant on leadership, strategy andorganization. He is president of TheMaccoby 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 manycorporations, unions, universities, the World Bank, and the State and CommerceDepartments of the U.S. Government.
Dr. Maccoby became known internationally for his books on leadership andpioneering projects to change work. His bestseller, The Gamesman (1977),describes the motivation of entrepreneurs and managers in high-tech industry. TheLeader (1981) describes leadership to improve both competitiveness and thequality of working life.SwedenAt the Edge, Lessons for American and Swedish Managers (1991) describes thestrengths and weaknesses of Swedish management at home and in theU.S. Why Work? Motivating the NewWork Force (second edition, 1995), presents a new theory of motivationto fit the changing values of knowledge workers. It has been translated into 10languages. He is co-author of Agents of Change: Crossing the Post IndustrialDivide (2003) which describes his approach to making organizations moreeffective.
His article Narcissistic Leaders: the Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons,January, 2000 won a McKinsey Award, which recognizes the two best HarvardBusiness Review articles published each year. It was the basis for thebook, The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of VisionaryLeadership, published in 2003. This fall Harvard Business School Press willpublish the paperback, re-titled Narcissistic Leaders: Who Succeeds &Who Fails. His most recent Harvard Business Review article was “WhyPeople Follow the Leader: The Power of Transference” (September2004).
Dr. Maccoby was facilitator of the National Coalition on Health Care. He hasbeen a consultant on the management of change at health centers, and receivedgrants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the study “Leadershipfor Health Care in the Age of Learning” which was published by theAssociation of Academic Health Centers in 2001.
Dr. Maccoby has taught at Harvard,UniversityofChicago,CornellUniversity,UniversityofCalifornia, l'Institut d'EtudesPolitiques de Paris,SaidBusinessSchool,Oxford and theWashington School of Psychiatry which he is emeritus professor. From 1978-90,he was director of the Program on Technology, Public Policy and HumanDevelopment at the J. F. Kennedy School of Government,HarvardUniversity.He received a B.A. in Social Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Social Relations fromHarvard. He also studied philosophy atNewCollege,Oxford, and psychoanalysis with Erich Fromm.With Fromm he wrote SocialCharacter in a Mexican Village (1970, reissued in 1996). He has been afellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is aFellow of the American Psychological Association, American AnthropologicalAssociation, Society for Applied Anthropology and the National Academy ofPublic Administration. He is a member of the boards of The Washington School ofPsychiatry, The Albert Shanker Institute, and Our Little Brothers and Sisters,an orphanage inMexico,Honduras,Haiti,Nicaragua,Guatemala, ElSalvador, theDominican Republic,BoliviaandPeru.He writes “The Human Side” for Research Technology Management.
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