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North Virginia Climate Change Summit
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Speaker Biographies
Mike Tidwell: author, founder
of CCAN: Keynote Address
Author, filmmaker and activist Mike Tidwell has been active inD.C.-area environmental
causes for more than a decade. Mike's documentary film - "We Are All Smith
Islanders" - details the dangers and solutions associated with global warming
in Maryland ,Virginia, and D.C. In 2002, Mike founded and now directs the
Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) www.chesapeakeclimate.org a
grassroots nonprofit dedicated to fighting global warming in the region through
the promotion of clean, renewable energy. Toward this end, Mike's pioneering
home in Takoma Park is fueled almost entirely by wind, solar and corn power,
and is regularly opened to the public as a community laboratory. Mike has
also recently published a ground-breaking book entitled "RavagingTide" that
documents the connection between global warming and stronger and more devastating
hurricanes nationwide.
Tom Whipple: national energy expert, columnist: Energy
For the last 2 years Tom has been following the evidence for and against peak
oil on a daily basis. He is currently writing a weekly a column for the Fall
Church, Virginia newspaper discussing the peak oil situation and its implications.
He also publishes a daily newsletter on Peak Oil developments and is the author
of the recently established Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) USA
weekly newsletter. ASPO www.peakoil.net is
a worldwide network of scientists having an interest in determining the date
and impact of the peak and decline of the world's production of oil and gas,
due to resource constraints.
Charlie Garlow: renewable technologies; state and county-wide solutions
Charlie Garlow is an Attorney/Advisor in the Air Enforcement Division of the
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance [OECA], Headquarters EPA, where
he has served as the air toxics expert since 1987. Other duties include national
coordination of the Stratospheric Ozone enforcement program, emissions trading
programs, acid rain enforcement, citizen enforcement coordination and criteria
pollutant enforcement efforts [NSPS, SIPs, NSR]. Garlow is a long time
clean energy activist with the Sierra Club, the Potomac Regional Solar Energy
Association, the Virginia Solar Council, the Electric Vehicle Association of
Greater DC and others.
Grady O'Rear: founder Ecovillage: local homeowner solutions
Mr O'Rear is President of Green Advantage, Inc. a non-profit organization that,
through education and research, advances sustainable development practices www.greenadvantage.org. He
is also the developer of EcoVillage of Loudoun County, Virginia, an environmentally
friendly, socially responsive community 40 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. www.ecovillages.com He
was formerly the founding President and CEO of a comprehensive, non-profit,
mental health organization. Named as a "Point of Light" by the White House,
the agency offers treatment, rehabilitation, transportation and housing services
and has developed over 50 homes and two commercial facilities. The 30,000 square
foot rehabilitation and national training and education center, built in 1991,
is considered one of the country's most energy efficient office buildings.
His education includes a B.A. in Education and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology.
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