Portal talk:Renewable energy/Selected biography

Waiting list

Moved below potential Selected biographies, where the article does not hit the mark yet for a good quality portal, but upon improvement could be re-included. --Elekhh (talk) 08:07, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Chris Goodall

Christopher Frank William Goodall (born 29 December 1955) is an English businessman and author. He is an alumnus of St Dunstan’s College, University of Cambridge, and Harvard Business School (MBA).

His début book How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, won the 2007 Clarion award for non-fiction. His second book, Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate, was first published in November 2008.

He was the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford West and Abingdon in the 2010 general election.

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Jan Hamrin

Jan Hamrin has spent 30 years promoting renewable energy through research, policy formulation, and the development of consumer programs. In 1981, Hamrin founded and served for nine years as Executive Director of the Independent Energy Producers’ Association (IEP) in California. She founded the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions in 1997 and retired as president of CRS at the end of 2007.

Hamrin has served as advisor to the G-8 and numerous legislatures and regulatory commissions as well as co-authoring two books: Affected with the Public Interest: Electric Industry Restructuring in an Era of Competition (1994) and Investing in the Future: A Regulator’s Guide to Renewables (1993). In October 2008, Hamrin received a Green Power Leadership "Pioneer" award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Green Power Partnership, and the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Ron Pernick

Ron Pernick, co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution and co-founder and principal of Clean Edge, is "an accomplished market research, publishing, and business development entrepreneur with two decades of high-tech experience". At Clean Edge he has co-authored many reports on emerging green technologies and has worked with multinational companies, government agencies, and investors. Pernick was named one of "50 most influential men under the age of 42" in the October 2006 issue of Details magazine.

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