- Ed Begley Jr.
Edward James Begley, Jr. (born September 16, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an actor (son of veteran character actor Ed Begley) and environmentalist who is perhaps best known for his work on the television series "St. Elsewhere" as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, for which he received six consecutive Emmy Award nominations. Other numerous works in television and film include recurring roles on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "7th Heaven", …
- Elon Musk
SpaceX ( www.spacex.com ) is the third company founded by Mr. Musk. Prior to SpaceX, he co-founded PayPal, the world's leading electronic payment system, and served as the company's chairman and CEO. PayPal has over twenty million customers in 38 countries, processes several billion dollars per year and went public on the NASDAQ under PYPL in early 2002. Mr. Musk was the largest shareholder of PayPal until the company was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. The illegitimate son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, …
- Shi Zhengrong
Dr Shi Zhengrong (施正荣, born c.1963) is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Suntech Power. According to Forbes Magazine, he is the wealthiest person living in China, with a personal net worth of $2.2 billion US dollars as of March, 2006. He has Australian citizenship. Dr Shi Zhengrong is a Christian. He is a graduate of the University of NSW's School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering.
- David Mills
David R. Mills (born 1946) is Canadian by birth, and has been active in solar energy research in Australia since 1975, and has been at the University of Sydney since 1980. As a Principal Research Fellow, he leads the Solar Energy Group in the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Sydney. Dr Mills works in solar thermal electricity development, which is one of the cornerstones of the future sustainable energy economy.
- Denis Hayes
Denis Hayes directs The Bullitt Foundation from the perspective of a practical visionary who has devoted his life to conservation. With mixed feelings, he acknowledges that he is probably still best known for having been National Coordinator of the first Earth Day when he was 25. But he also is the seasoned veteran of many environmental, legislative, and litigation victories over the years.
- Gerard O'Neill
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6 1927 - April 27 1992) was a U.S. physicist and space pioneer. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1950, and received a doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1954. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1954, with which he remained associated until his death. Dr. O'Neill's early research focused on high-energy particle physics; notably he invented the particle storage ring.
- Martin Green
Martin Green is an Australian professor at the University of New South Wales who works intensively with the development of the use of solar energy. He was born 1948 in Brisbane, graduated from University of Queensland and completed his PhD at McMaster University in Canada, where he specialised in solar energy. In 1974, at the University of New South Wales, he initiated the Solar Photovoltaics Group which soon worked on the development of silicon solar cells.
- Paul MacCready
Paul B. MacCready, Jr. (born September 25, 1925 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American aeronautical engineer. He is the founder of AeroVironment and the inventor of the first practical flying machine powered by a human being. MacCready graduated from Hopkins School in 1943, received his bachelor's degree in physics from Yale University in 1947, a master's degree in physics from Caltech in 1948, and a PhD in aeronautics from Caltech in 1952.
- Andrew Blakers
"Professor Andrew Blakers", Director of the Australian National University "Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems", is involved with the development of SLIVER Cell (TM) photovoltaic technology which uses just one tenth of the costly silicon used in conventional solar panels while matching power, performance, and efficiency.
- Albert Bates
Albert Bates (born 1947-01-01) is an influential figure in the intentional community and ecovillage movements. A lawyer, author and teacher, he has been director of the Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee since 1994. Bates has been a resident of The Farm since 1972.
- Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is a British best-selling author and politician. He was a member of Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and became a life peer in 1992. His political career, having suffered from several earlier controversies, finally ended after a conviction for perjury and his subsequent imprisonment. He is married to Mary Archer, a scientist specialising in solar power.
- Jim Sykes
Jim Sykes (born 1952 in Rapid City, South Dakota) is a journalist (primarily radio), producer, and Alaskan politician and founder of the Green Party of Alaska. In 1990 he ran for governor on the Green Party ticket and gained more than 3% of the vote, thus establishing the first state ballot access for the Green Party in the United States. He continues to be active in Green Party politics, most recently running for US Senate in 2004.
- Félix Trombe
Felix Trombe was a French engineer. He is best known for his pioneering work in passive solar building design with the Trombe wall, which bears his name. He also directed in 1949 the construction of an experimental 50 kW solar furnace, for high temperature experiments in physics and chemistry; later, a 1000 kW furnace was built.
- Katy Deacon
Katy Deacon, an Electrical Engineer working for Kirklees Metropolitan Council, has been a figure head in the implementation of many renewable energy systems in West Yorkshire and has been nominated for several awards. Use of wind turbines and solar power in schools is just one of these such projects that Katy has worked on. She has created a renewable energy 'tool kit' for architects, …
- Robert Haga
Robert Haga, Chief of Staff to Commissioner Chong. He was Vice President of Strategic Planning and USAC Operations at the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) in Washington D.C. Mr. Haga joined USAC in 1998 as its third employee, and during his seven years with USAC, he was responsible for a broad range of issues, including the high cost and low income support mechanisms, corporate finance, information technology, and audits.
- Marcus O'Day
Marcus Driver O'Day (1897 - 1961) was an American physicist. In 1918, he entered the military service in Eugene, Oregon after graduating from Centralia, Washington. He then attended the University of Oregon where he was assigned to the Students Army Training Corps, and was discharged at the end of the year. Beginning in 1926 Dr. O'Day taught physics at Reed College. During World War II, he was employed at the MIT Radiation Laboratory where he worked on the radar IFF system.
- Mary Archer Baroness Archer of Weston-supe
Mary Doreen Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born Mary Doreen Weeden, on 22 December 1944) is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion. She studied chemistry at St Anne's College, Oxford, and then physical chemistry at Imperial College London, before becoming a lecturer at Cambridge University. From 1988 to 2000 she was Chairman of the National Energy Foundation, which promotes renewable energy.
- Alberto Pellicani
Experienced Business Development & Sales Executive with a very good reputation on Italian ICT market. Successful Manager of Business processes on Direct and Channels Sales. Enthusiastic, high energy, very positive communicator and motivating workgroups; Focused on emerging High Tech Networking, Security & Multimedia Convergence markets. Revenues results responsibilities Q-by-Q / Yearly and P & L. Working with a very strong ethical business vision. Great Teamwork builder / . . .
- Bonnie Zaddach
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- Mitra Ardron
- Devon
I just put it all out on the table, and when i say it, i mean puke, and when i say table i mean your dead grandmother! I'm Originally from Stettler, AB, where I went to high school and such. After school I moved to Red Deer for a year, and then to Calgary for just under two years. Now I am living in Victoria, BC, which is a very nice city, but you can't smoke in the pubs (fuckin retard). I have three brothers and three sisters two of which are adopted.
- Tim
I surf as much as I can. I work in the photovoltaic industry. I like my job. I like to get into the back country and take photos.
- Bryan Wilson
LIVIN LIFE TO THE FULLEST! LIVIN IN SOUTHERN CALI AND LEARNING TO SURF. IT IS AMAZING WHAT A LITTLE SUN CAN DO FOR A PERSON. I LOVE MY FAMILY AND WISH THEY COULD BE HERE. I LOVE THE WATER WHETHER IT IS RAIN OR A CLEAR BLUE OCEAN IN 80 DEGREES. MY LITTLE BROTHER BEAT CANCER SO WATCH OUT HE IS GOING PRO IN SOMETHING.
- Bernadette del Chiaro
Bernadette Del Chiaro Company: Environment California Bernadette Del Chiaro directs Environment California and Environment California Research & Policy Center's Clean Energy and Global Warming Programs. In this capacity, Ms. Del Chiaro advocates before the California legislature, the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission, and before municipal agencies on clean energy issues.
- Jeffery D. Wolfe
Mr. Wolfe has been active in overall industry development as PV Division Chair of the Solar Energy Industries Association, and is on the Union of Concerned Scientists National Advisory Board. He was a founder, former board member and Chair of Renewable Energy Vermont, and founder, former board member and Vice Chair of the New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Association. Recently he was one of the thousand people in the US trained in presenting Al Gore’s climate change presentation.
- Julia Judd Hamm
Julia Judd Hamm Company: Solar Electric Power Association Julia Judd Hamm is the executive director of the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA), a national membership organization that facilitates utility use and integration of solar electricity. She also serves as the chair of the annual Solar Power conference and expo.
- Anselm Kröger-
Anselm Kröger-Vodde Senior Engineer Anselm Kröger-Vodde is a Senior Engineer with 11 years of experience in solar energy R&D with particular experience in the optimised integration of PV and other distributed generation into the electricity grid.
- Gordon R. Woodcock
Gordon R. Woodcock is a manager of Space Transfer Vehicles for Lunar/Mars Missions for Boeing Aerospace in Huntsville, Alabama. He received his B.S. in Aeronautic Engineering from Oregon State University in 1954 and his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington in 1965. He has served on the Board of the L5 Society (now the National Space Society) since the late 1970's. He was President of the L5 Society from 1984 to 1987.
- Jeanine Cotter
Jeanine Cotter is Luminalt’s Chief Executive Officer. She is responsible for the overall operation of Luminalt and ensures that Luminalt is kept abreast of the latest legislative and regulatory developments relating to solar electric and solar thermal systems, energy efficiency (including Title 24) and green building practices at the federal, state and local levels. Jeanine is a member of the San Francisco Solar Task Force and is on the organizing committee for Solar Power 2007.
- Shirley J. Neff
Shirley Neff Shirley Neff is an energy consultant and a nationally recognized expert in energy policy. She is vice president, Americans for Solar Power (ASPV) and is affiliated with the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation, and Public Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University where she is also an adjunct professor of energy policy.
- Dan Thompson
DAN THOMPSON Founder, President & CEO Dan Thompson started SPG Solar, Inc. in early 2001, to provide renewable energy alternatives to customers whose electric rates were escalating. Currently, SPG Solar, Inc. (SPG), designs and builds the highest performing solar energy systems in the industry. They range in size from 1 kilowatt to over 1 megawatt, and power businesses, government and agricultural facilities, and homes.
- Stephen E Morris
- Arthur Rudin
Arthur Rudin Company: Sharp Electronics Arthur Rudin is the Director of Engineering at the Solar Energy Solutions Group of SHARP Electronics Corporation. He is responsibilities include engineering, training and technology.
- Doug McClenahan
Doug McClenahan is the Solar Thermal R&D Program Manager for Natural Resources Canadas CANMET Energy Technology Centre (CETC), the lead energy S&T delivery organization of the Government of Canada. He is the current Chair of the International Energy Agencys Solar Heating and Cooling Program. Prior to working with CETC, he held the position of Solar Research Associate with the University of Toronto.
- Brian Koch
Brian Koch Company: Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Brian Koch is the Manager of Resource Development for the Power System of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). He is responsible for overseeing resource development of renewable energy projects, developing the Integrated Resource Plan, and administrating the Solar PV Incentive Program.
- Bob Lay
Bob Lay Company: Bob Lay Associates Bob Lay is the Principal of Bob Lay & Associates formed in 1990. Prior to forming BLA, he was a Senior Vice President in commercial and investment banking focusing on the Public sector. BLA assists government agencies in the areas of alternative energy, clean fuels, and capital financing. BLA performs feasibility studies, rate studies, long-term capital plans, financial models, RFPs, contract negotiations, and project implementation.
- Joshua Lubecky
Joshua Lubecky , Solar Design Consultant Joshua Lubecky has a BA from Cleveland State University and post-graduate work at University of New Mexico. In addition, he has extensive training on the California Solar Initiative program. He has been in the Solar Power business throughout the industry's rapid growth of the last few years, getting his start in Silicon Valley.
- Santiago Seage
Santiago Seage Company: Abengoa Solar Santiago Seage is the CEO of Abengoa Solar. Abengoa Solar is a company focused on developing and applying Solar Power technology, both in Concentrated Solar Power and Photovoltaics.
- Alan Couch
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