Big Sustainability Month on the North Shore

We had to let you know that there's a worldclass speaker coming up at the North Shore Tech Council September 19. Big month. Rob Day at the Forum on Sept. 5. Dr. Carl Safina two weeks later.

You may’ve seen his "Saving the Ocean" series on PBS.  Or something else. Carl Safina has been profiled in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and on Nightline; National Public Radio; Democracy Now; Bill Moyers’ special Earth on Edge; Martha Stewart; and not least: The Colbert Report.

Safina is author of 6 books and roughly 200 scientific and popular publications, including features in The New York Times, and National Geographic and a new Foreword to Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us.

His first book, Song for the Blue Ocean, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Eye of the Albatross won the John Burroughs Medal and the National Academies’ Science Communication Award for year’s Best Book.

Voyage of the Turtle was a N.Y. Times Editors’ Choice. So was The View From Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, which won the 2012 Orion Award.

Safina is founding president of Blue Ocean Institute at Stony Brook University, where he also co-chairs the University’s Center for Communicating Science.

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Next Forum: Venture Capitalist Rob Day

Sustainability Forum Presents

Venture Capitalist Rob Day of Black Coral Capital

What:         North Shore Technology Council’s Sustainability Forum on Wed., Sept. 5, takes a close look at cleantech investment with Venture Capitalist Rob Day of Black Coral Capital.

Focus:        What’s the climate for cleantech investment? Since 2004, Rob Day has been a cleantech private equity investor. He’s been at the center of Massachusetts cleantech market.  At our next Forum, Rob will offer his keen perspective on this important issue.  It’s an important stimulus to innovation.

Rob Day is a Partner with Boston’s Black Coral Capital, a fund investing in the alternative energy / cleantech space. Rob acts or has served as a Director, Observer and advisory board member to multiple companies in the energy tech and related sectors, currently including Digital Lumens, Next Step Living, and Powerit Solutions. He serves as the Chairman of the Cleantech Open – Northeast Region and was a co-founder of the Renewable Energy Business Network.

Since 2005 Rob has also authored the website Cleantech Investing, which currently appears on GreentechMedia.com.  

When:        Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. Coffee begins at 8 a.m.; presentation at 8:30.

Where:       Cummings Center

                  Suite 221-E, Bldg. 100

                  Rte 62, Beverly, MA 01915

RSVP:        Forum meetings are free to members of the NSTC; $10 for non-members. All are encouraged to register here at NSTC.org.

The Sustainability Forum is a special interest group within the North Shore Technology Council (NSTC).  Its active membership is dedicated to the understanding and promotion of clean-technology and sustainable practices within our region.  Monthly meetings offer lively discussions and special guests. Visit:  http://northshoretechcouncil.blogspot.com/

About the North Shore Technology Council

The North Shore Technology Council (NSTC) is an all-volunteer, non-profit technology trade association with a mission to build a community for collaboration and advancement of technology industries in northeastern Massachusetts.

For more information call NSTC at 978-335-5234.

Email: john@IpswichRiverMedia.com