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adminLawrence Solomon
An advisor to President Carter's Task Force on the Global Environment (the Global 2000 Report) in the late 1970's, he has since been at the forefront of movements to reform foreign aid, stop nuclear power expansion, save the world's rainforests and convert free roads to toll roads. He is a columnist with National Post (Toronto) and has been a columnist for the Globe and Mail (Toronto), a syndicated columnist, a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and the editor and publisher of the award-winning The Next City magazine. He is author or co-author of seven books, including Energy Shock (Doubleday), In the Name of Progress (Doubleday), Breaking Up Ontario Hydro's Monopoly (Energy Probe), Power at What Cost (Doubleday), Toronto Sprawls (University of Toronto Press) and, most recently, The Deniers (Richard Vigilante Books). Mr. Solomon is a founder and managing director of Energy Probe Research Foundation and the executive director of its Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute divisions. He also helped found the World Rainforest Movement, Friends of the Earth Canada, and Lake Ontario Waterkeepers. Mr. Solomon's 1982 model for electricity reform was adopted in the UK in 1989, leading to the demise of nuclear and coal power in the UK and its adoption of high efficiency natural gas technologies. His model has since become the dominant model for electricity sector restructuring in the world. His recommendations in the late 1980s and early 1990s for reforms in Ontario's natural gas sector contributed to an industry restructuring that yielded both economic and environmental benefits.
His 1996 model for the satellite tolling of roads has been adopted throughout the European Union. He holds patents for toll road technology for the EU, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico, and Brazil.
adminNorm RubinNorm Rubin is Energy Probe's director of nuclear research and senior policy analyst, and a founder of Energy Probe Research Foundation in 1979. One of Canada's best-known environmentalists, he is a member of the Ontario Energy Board's Working Group on Electricity Demand-Side Management and Demand Reduction, the Ontario Power Authority's Conservation Business Stakeholder Advisory Group, and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's Non-Governmental Organization Regulatory Advisory Committee.adminOur Board of DirectorsGail Regan - President, Cara Holdings Ltd.Patricia Adams - President, Energy Probe Research Foundation Max Allen - Producer, IDEAS, CBC Radio Andrew Coyne - National Affairs Columnist, National Post Ian Gray - President, St. Lawrence Starch Co. Ltd. David Nowlan - Professor of Economics, University of Toronto Clifford Orwin - Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Andrew Roman - Barrister & Solicitor Andrew Stark - Professor, University of Toronto Annetta Turner - Secretary Treasurer, Energy Probe Research Foundation Margaret Wente - Columnist, Globe and Mail read more » About UsEnergy Probe is a consumer and environmental research team, active in the fight against nuclear power, and dedicated to resource conservation, economic efficiency, and effective utility regulation. Current PrioritiesOur 30 years of research have led us to conclude there is a great need to: read more » About Us
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Lawrence Solomon is one of Canada's leading environmentalists. His book, The Conserver Solution (Doubleday), which popularized the Conserver Society concept in the late 1970s, became the manual for those interested in incorporating environmental factors into economic life.
