A WEB SITE WHERE ENVIRONMENTAL AND
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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