The Green Salon September 2010

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Sarah Rice is an actress whose career in theater has been notable for her leading ladies in acclaimed theatrical productions. She created the role of Johanna in Sweeney Todd on Broadway, for which she won a Theatre World Award. She also appeared in A Little Night Music on Broadway. She performed the spectacular leading role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera in Montreal. Opera and operetta roles include Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Rosina in The Barber of Seville and Kathie in The Student Prince. An established cabaret performer, she distills her years of performing experience to create worldly performances of beloved standards.

Mark Watson has performed across the United States, Italy, Israel, Japan and Belgium. He has sung with the Baltimore Opera Company, Michigan Opera Theater, Opera Orchestra of New York and many regional companies. A great fan of oratorio, he was the bass soloist in Mozart’s CoronatiOn Mass at Carnegie Hall in June of 2009. He teaches meditation and is a board certified music therapist. He is the founder of Hearts Across the Ocean (Kids Saving Kids,) a non-profit corporation which underwrites life-saving heart surgeries for poor children in India.

Linda Shaw, Esq., President and Owner of Future Energy Development LLC since 2004, has eighteen years experience in public and private sectors assisting renewable energy companies in locating their projects on brownfield real estate. From solar arrays on closed landfills to biofuels facilities on old petroleum tank farms, Future Energy is working to quickly and efficiently get renewable projects built on land already zoned for renewable industrial projects. Future Energy Systems has been hired by NYSERDA to assist an educational effort on combined heat and power systems which work particularly well in Manhattan.

Peter Fusaro - Founder and Chairman of Global Change Associates, author of 15 books on energy, environment and green finance and a sought-after keynote speaker, created the Green Salon with Carmen Cook to bring the arts and environment into closer, accessible harmony and dialogue. Peter founded Global Change Associates in 1991 to focus on the interplay and convergence of energy and environmental financial markets. Global Change Associates at Global-Change.com is the website with detailed green finance information.

On September 17 he has been invited to speak on sustainable energy at the High-Level Conference on Energy at the United Nations. He will speak at All Souls Unitarian September 26 at 12:30 PM on Environmental Stewardship. On March 29 and 30, 2011 he convenes the Tenth Annual Wall Street Green Summit at the Center for Architecture in New York City.