Dear Hidden Techies, A reminder that my BrainTrust Alliance team and I are staging two alternative energy focus groups tomorrow on behalf of Leviathan Energy of Jerusalem, Israel and Amherst, Mass. As you will see, the company has several really fabulous small wind and hydroelectric wind turbines that founder Dr. Daniel Farb wants to bring to the U.S. market come spring. These sessions will be working sessions aimed at producing Action Steps for participants (see information below). The times/locations are: Springfield: Jan 25th 10:30- noon Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, 60 Congress Street – Floor 1, Springfield, MA Amherst: Jan 25th 5:30 - 7 p.m. The Glass Room in the Bangs Center, Amherst (Between Rao's Coffee and the Amherst downtown parking garage) CURRENT INFORMATION TO BE PRESENTED ON FEDERAL RECOVERY MONEY GRANTS As you can see from the attached slides, I recently presented on the subject of tracking federal Recovery Act money in Philadelphia at the "Green = Green" one-day think tank held at U Penn's Malvern campus. The first segment of the slides refers to an historic announcement I was authorized to make along with standards developer Lee Armstrong of Southampaton, Mass. that affects how we all will drive on highways some day in the future. This is NOT the focus of our sessions tomorrow, though I am happy to discuss the impact of WAVE at another juncture. I have culled a great deal of current information on the DOE and DOT grant programs that relate to alternative energy. This is the focus of tomorrow's discussions. A GOOD SAMPLING MUNICIPALITIES, PRIVATE BUSINESSES, PLANNERS AND ENERGY EXPERTS EXPECTED Catherine Ratte, director of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission PVPC) tells me that we have several municipalities sending reps on the morning focus group at the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (PVPC), plus at least one alternative energy business. Michael Wright I'm expecting the Amherst planning department will have reps along with some of the IT department folks CCed. Anne Perkins, who many of you know led the construction of a "green" housing village in Franklin County, hopes to be with us as she knows something about dealing with the US Dept. of Energy. I'm hoping that those CCed will make an effort to attend, or send someone from your organizations or companies. Between both focus groups, and private conversations with most of you and a number of companies, I have no doubt that we are well on our way to pulling together the private/public sector coalition we need to secure substantial federal funding to "green" our regional economy. Looking forward to see many of you in the morning or evening. Amy Zuckerman Principal, A - Z International Associates, Amherst www.a-zinternational.com 413-253-4124 413-548-0030 - cell Hidden Tech Founder -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20110124/4ba0746f/attachment.html