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Joel Garbon

Profile page for New Energy Congress member Joel Garbon

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Overview

Representation 

newenergymovement.org, President

New Energy Congress 

Founding member, Dec. 13, 2005.

Committees 

Implementation, Scientific

Experience in the field of Alternative Energy 

Had 22 year career in the chemical and paper industries in various technical sales, account management, and applications consultant positions. Worked with large industrial corporations throughout North and South America. Currently serve as president of New Energy Movement, succeeding founder and former president Dr. Brian O'Leary. Garbon has co-authored with Jeane Manning a book on New Energy, to be released in the Fall of '08.

Education 

B.S. in Applied Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Majored in Paper Sciece and Engineering.

Feature Book

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  Featured: Reviews >
  Breakthrough Power -- a Book for the Masses - Here is a book to both round out your own understanding of game-changing energy technologies as well as to pass out to your family and friends to get them excited about the possibilities and to inspire them to get involved in helping to remove the barriers which have stood in the way of these things coming forward. (PESWiki; Nov. 4, 2008)
  

Presentations

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  Top 100 / Featured: Events > Breakthrough Power >
  Video Report: Breakthrough Power Presentation at SJSU - On April 2, Jeane Manning, Joel Garbon and Sterling Allan, along with Raphial Morgado gave a presentation to some students at San Jose State University. Raphial demonstrated his Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine and said a few words about the inventive process to those assembled. (PESWiki; April 13, 2009)
  

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  Top 100 / Featured: Events >
  Event: Breakthrough Power - Embracing the New Energy Frontier - On March 30 through April 2, 2009 there will be several presentations, including to the Harvard Club of San Francisco by Breakthrough Power co-authors, Joel Garbon and Jeane Manning as well as Sterling Allan, Founder of the NEC which generates the Top 100 energy listing. (PESWiki)
  

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  U.S. Senator Takes Second Look at Breakthrough New Energy Legislation - Roundtable addresses why the United States government is so slow to facilitate extreme leading edge technologies, and how that tendency could be changed for the better through visionary leadership. (PESN; June 4, 2008)
  

• New Energy Movement -- Open Source PowerPoint - Prepared by Joel Garbon. Addresses shortcomings of patent route for monumental technologies and advantages of open sourcing. (Oct. 7, 2007)

Biography

Updated May 29, 2008

Joel Garbon received a B.S in Applied Science from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He has over two decades of experience in product development and as a technical consultant to the paper, chemical, building products and water treatment industries. He has consulted with dozens of large and small companies in North and South America and is a highly regarded speaker and educator within these industries, regularly instructing classes of engineers. Garbon developed several commercially successful chemical formulations for use in paper and building products applications and is co-inventor of a water treatment filtration technology.

Specific to the energy field, Joel currently serves as President of New Energy Movement and is a founding member of New Energy Congress, which maintains a continuously updated and publicly viewable database of the “Top 100" most promising breakthrough energy technologies. Joel has relationships with many organizations which promote responsible stewardship of earth's resources and which support progressive sustainable technologies for advancement of human civilization. He has been a featured speaker on numerous television and radio programs and at conferences and civic gatherings, making the appeal for a concurrent evolution in human consciousness and energy technology to address our pressing global challenges.

He is the author of an historic legislative draft titled “Energy Innovation Act of 2007" which is intended for introduction as a Congressional bill and to serve as template for new energy legislation on the state, local, and international levels. The legislation’s provisions call for urgent and serious federal support for research and development of breakthrough energy technologies.

Garbon is co-author with Jeane Manning (author of the highly-regarded book “The Coming Energy Revolution") of an upcoming book titled “Breakthrough Power? which chronicles the challenges, opportunities, and progress in the new energy technology field.

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Contact

Joel Garbon Founding Member New Energy Congress
Joel Garbon <joelgarbon {at} earthlink.net>
503-706-6193
3811 S.W. Corbett
Portland, Oregon, 97239 USA

See also

• Congress:Members

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