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Michael Eckhart. President of the American Council on Renewable
Energy, co-chair of the World Council for Renewable Energy, and
member of the Clinton Global Initiative, his previous roles include
Manager of Strategic Planning for GE Power Systems and Principal
of Booz, Allen & Hamilton's energy practice. He has an MBA
from Harvard… 
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His books, articles and research cover solar, wind, geothermal,
bioenergy and hydrogen. He is on the boards of the Business Council
for Sustainable Energy and the American Council on Renewable Energy…
and a Senior Advisor at the energy research firm E SOURCE, he
is an expert on renewable energy technologies and policies and
their relationship to electric utility restructuring. He has taught
energy policy and technology at Princeton, Stanford, and the University
of Colorado Boulder… 
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he headed the federal Solar Energy Research Institute (now the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory), served as Director of the
Illinois State Energy Office, and received the Charles Greeley
Abbot Award of the American Solar Energy Society… 
and 
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hailed by E.O. Wilson as "an instant classic." He
helped pioneer the idea of environmentally sustainable development…
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He lives in a state-of-the-art solar and wind powered home that
has been featured on NBC News and in articles in Solar Today
and Home Power magazines. He speaks on the end of cheap oil
and solar heating and cooling… 
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he has inspired thousands around the world to make and use biodiesel.
He uses animation and video footage to take audiences on a journey
through the history, geopolitics, and current crisis of our
fossil energy based society… 
is "rich with surprises… will teach even the most
erudite..." His 
was called "vivid and fascinating" by Nature magazine…
