To RSVP, please contact the Commonwealth Club of California at
www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2013-12-03/high-road-true-smart-grid
or 415-597-6700
Tickets: $32 non-members, $20 members,
$10 students (with valid ID)
“The High Road to a True Smart Grid”
Billions of dollars of ‘smart’ utility meters are being installed across America that are unable to integrate with, or enable, the ‘smart grid’ of the future on which U.S. energy sustainability depends, according to the landmark report, “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid” published by the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy in Washington, D.C.This interdisciplinary critique of our present electricity dilemma
will clarify technical misunderstandings about ‘smart’ meters; the
entrenched economic models preventing utilities from fully embracing
renewable energy; and how the growing transpartisan ‘smart’ meter
rebellion heralds an epochal transformation in the economy of energy.
The panelists will lay out the next steps the U.S. must take to achieve
clean energy abundance—for the sake of our pocketbooks, sustainable
energy independence, global economic competitiveness, preservation of
natural resources, enhanced national security and to forestall the
looming threat to life on Earth from man-made global warming.
The program, including Q&A, will explore the pivotal role
communities and citizens can play, through political will, including
transpartisan collaborations, in driving the needed transformation in
this sector, and how a clean energy economy can be fast tracked through a
truly innovative and pioneering collaborative financing arrangement
between the private and public sectors.
To RSVP, please contact the Commonwealth Club of California at
www.commonwealthclub.org or 415-597-6700
11:30 a.m. – Complimentary Light Buffet
12:00 p.m. – Program Begins
Tickets: $32 non-members, $20 members,
$10 students (with valid ID)
Media please contact the Commonwealth Club
to request a Press Pass.
Panelists:
Timothy Schoechle, Ph.D. is author of the landmark white paper, “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid”,
published by the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy
in Washington, D.C. This white paper critiques the present approach to
the smart grid and describes what a truly smart electricity grid would
look like, one that is capable of integrating “distributed” power
generation from renewable and sustainable energy sources without the
privacy, security, cost, reliability, radiation, or potential public
health impacts of the present approach. Dr. Schoechle has been engaged
in engineering development of electric utility gateways and energy
management systems for over 25 years. He is an expert on the
international standards system and serves as secretariat of ISO/IEC SC32
Data Management and Interchange, and Secretary of ISO/IEC SC25 Working
Group 1, the international standards committee for Home Electronic
Systems. Dr. Schoechle is a founder of BI Incorporated, pioneer
developer of RFID technology, and former faculty member of the
University of Colorado College of Engineering and Applied Science. He
holds an M.S. in telecommunications engineering and a Ph.D. in
communications policy from the University of Colorado.
Karl Maret, M.D., M.Eng. Dr.
Maret is President of Dove Health Alliance, a non-profit foundation in
Aptos, CA. He holds an M.D., Masters in Biomedical Engineering and B.S.
in Electrical Engineering. As such, he is uniquely qualified to address
present day concerns about the smart grid, including health concerns,
privacy, and security issues. Dr. Maret lectures extensively in Europe
and America about electromagnetic healing approaches, electrosmog
challenges in today’s changed electromagnetic environment, and new
integrative energy medicine therapies. He has presented at many
international conferences, including annual presentations at the German
Society for Energy and Informational Medicine for the last 10 years, and
he educates physician groups on the biological impacts of communication
technologies, such as cell phones, wireless technologies and
infrastructure and ‘smart meters’.
James S. Turner, Esq. is
a principal in the Washington, DC law firm, Swankin & Turner, Board
Chair of Citizens for Health, co-founder of Voice for H.O.P.E., Healers
of Planet Earth, and Chairman of the National Institute for Science,
Law and Public Policy. Mr. Turner represents businesses as well as
individuals and consumer groups in a wide variety of regulatory matters
concerning food, drug, health, environmental and product-safety matters.
He has appeared before every major consumer regulatory agency,
including the Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection
Agency, Consumer Product Safety Commission and Federal Trade Commission,
as well as serving as consultant to the Department of Agriculture and
the National Institutes of Health. Under the direction of Camilla Rees,
the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy published the
landmark white paper, “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid”.
Duncan A. Campbell, Esq. is widely
recognized visionary thinker and Colorado Radio Host with a commanding
knowledge of the most important issues of the day, including the
importance of co-creative dialogue for transformational change and the
pressing societal need for the democratization of the energy economy. In
his Living Dialogues® program, he bring the lessons of evolutionary
consciousness into the practical world of business and sustainable
energy concerns. He was an entrepreneurial lawyer, pioneering computer
and high tech law in the Rocky Mountain Region, served on the Colorado
Governor’s High Technology Advisory Group and is an advisor to new
energy ventures supporting a more secure, efficient, empowering, and
distributed new energy economy. Duncan holds degrees from Harvard Law
School and Yale University, and a Certificate from the Sorbonne.
Camilla Rees, MBA, Moderator, is the founder of Electromagnetic Health.org, as well as of Campaign for Radiation Free Schools. She co-authored “Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution” and the landmark report, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern”.
Camilla co-founded the International EMF Alliance in Oslo, Norway, a
collaboration of 85+ international advocacy organizations. She has
spoken widely on health topics nationally and internationally,
addressing members of Congress and their staffs, the Commonwealth Club
of California, Bioneers, the Young President’s Organization, Columbia
University Law School, the International Institute for Bau Biology &
Ecology, state governments, consumer groups and several medical
conferences. Ms. Rees is EMF Advisor to Mercola.com, FrankLipmanMD.com,
and Citizens for Health, and on the Advisory Board of the International
Institute for Bau Biology & Ecology, the Radiation Research Trust
(U.K.) and Board Member of Media in the Public Interest. She initiated
and oversaw the landmark white paper, “Getting Smarter for the Smart Grid”
on behalf of the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy.
Ms. Rees holds a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University and an
MBA from Georgetown University.
Download “Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid”
www.gettingsmarteraboutthesmartgrid.org
Download Timothy Schoechle’s Review of “Power Struggle: The Hundred-Year War over Electricity”
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Media please contact the Commonwealth Club
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