Who are NM's green movers and shakers?

Since September '08, I've been researching local movers and shakers in New Mexico's green niche. I'm curious to hear from Santa Fe Green Line community, who you think represents the key players locally (businesses, local government officials, advocates, etc.)?

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Permalink Reply by Barry Bitzer on March 24, 2009 at 12:02am: Jen: In my experience, local green mover/shakers include Santa Fe's own Ed Mazria; Karen Cook; Dale Dekker of Dekker, Perich Sabatini and Scott McCurdy, who sits on the national board of REP America as well as chairing it's NM Executive Committee. Got to also give ABQ Mayor Chavez credit for 3% bond set-aside for conservation and distributed power; Water Sustainability strides that got a global award 3 years ago in London; his (amici) participation in MA vs EPA in the US Supreme Court establishing CO2 as a 'pollutant,' his groundbreaking call for a 'pardon' of H2 (taking on some myths about safety before an audience of techies who got it, but who lacked a concise way to frame it); His (and Council's) cutting edge green building standards; his hybrid-elecetric and CNG bus fleet; and more. Of course it could be argued Chavez jumped the gun on Ethanol (at least from a CO2 perspective); but all told he's been out front in good ways (bagging ABQ "Greenest City in America" honors at a national Mayors' conference a couple years ago as well).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jen Marshall on March 24, 2009 at 2:05pm: Great feedback Barry!

In my continued search, I've also found these people noteworthy:
* Brendan Miller, Green Economy Manager, Economic Development Department
* Susie Marbury, Energy Efficiency & Green Building Administrator at State of New Mexico
* Chris Kerlin, Exec. Dir., NM Green Building Council
* John Soladay, Director Environmental Health, City of Albuquerque

These contacts are great resources for Green Tech:
* Tom Greenbaum, Intel, NM Data Center Manager
* Nick Babic, Affordable Solar, Project Developer; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jen Marshall on March 26, 2009 at 9:51am: RMTA just hosted the Global New Energy Summit in March '09. Below, a partial list of guest speakers. Any feedback on featured guest speakers?

Guest Speakers
Michael Anastasio – Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tom Hunter – Director, Sandia National Laboratories
Geoffrey West – President and Distinguished Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Anup Jacob – Founding Partner, Virgin Green Fund
Les Shepherd – Vice President Energy and Critical/Global Infrastructures, Strategic Unit, Sandia National Laboratories
Ambassador C. Paul Robinson – Principal, Advanced Reactor Concepts; Former Director, Sandia National Laboratories
Hong Hou – CEO, Emcore
Dan Fine – Director, Energy Policy Institute
Robert Peterman – Senior Manager, Global Clean Technology, Toronto Stock Exchange & TSX Venture Exchange
Arnold Leitner – President & CEO, SkyFuel; ▶ Reply to This