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Environmental Education Group History

40 Year History Highlights for THE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GROUP 501 C-3 Foundation

Since 1972

Our Environmental Education Group (EEG) has a historical, successful 40 year track record raising funding for educational, community and world helping projects.

Our non-profit organization Environmental Education Group was established to raise awareness of our worlds’, as well as our communities’ environmental pressures and problems. We are, and always have been, seeking solutions that support our sustainable economic development, and the evolvement of our business, social, environmental, and personal responsibility issues.

Our track record shows clearly our consistent ability to secure funding for projects that are good for communities and good for the world. Our track record also shows our deep commitment to developing those projects responsibly, with our eyes on the long-term harmony of our communities and our world.

Environmental Education Group continues to seek out opportunities that enable us to further set up more long-term projects to raise awareness and help bring about a deeper sense of harmony on our planet and in our communities.


Project: The Founding of The Original Earth Day 1970 - current

Before Alan Tratner founded EEG, he was involved in the founding of Earth Day, with Senator Gaylord Nelson, among other talent. Every year since Environmental Education Group was founded in 1972, presentations were made at the annual Earth Day celebrations, various events and workshops in the US and abroad, raising awareness about sustainable economic development, eco-entrepreneurship and invention. This includes presentations to elementary through university  level educational  institutions, community organizations, public libraries, governmental  organizations, business  and chamber of commerce groups in various venues, from convention centers to public libraries, from churches to outdoor parks. 

INITIATIVE:

Founding of The Environmental Education Group 1972

SUMMARY:

Alan Tratner’s Environmental Action Group in the 1960’s, and the Environmental Quality Magazine which also both helped to establish Earth Day in 1970, led to the creation of The Environmental Education Group.

RESULTS:

Environmental Education Group (EEG) was established as a Non-Profit, 501-C3 foundation.

U.N Conference on the Human Environment 1972

SUMMARY: The First United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden. Environmental Education Group created, authored and developed the following production of Science Wall Charts, Newsletters, and 

Publications that are permanently displayed at the Milijo Forum to this day:

• Technology Versus the Environment

• Biosphere

• Pollution Watch

• Personal Solutions

The Environmental Alert Group and Citizens for a Better Environment, out of Chicago, funded $60,000 in grants and private donations to Environmental Education Group to produce and freely distribute these various productions to schools across the United States and Europe. 

RESULTS:

-- 200,000 science wall charts were distributed to over 1000 High Schools.

--The ‘Pollution Watch’ monthly printed newsletter was distributed to 15,000 students, educators and citizens for 5 consecutive years.

--‘Personal Solutions’ Publication won awards and reached 100,000 readers.

The Environmental Alert Group and Citizens for a Better Environment, out of Chicago, funded $60,000 in grants and private donations to ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GROUP to produce and freely distribute these various productions to schools across the United States and Europe. 

The Inventors Workshop International 1972 - ONGOING:

SUMMARY: 

A relationship was created between Environmental Education Group and the non-profit Inventors Workshop International (IWI), which was founded in 1971, as a membership organization to assist inventors in the development and protection of their ideas around the world. IWI created chapters in the United States and affiliate chapters with other countries and embarked upon a series of ongoing workshops, expositions and conferences that included Green2Gold presentations. A number of significant co-sponsorships were developed between the two organizations for large scale events.

RESULTS:

Many members of IWI have benefited from Green2Gold membership as well, and some have matured to incubated enterprises which has provided revenue sources to EEG that continues to this day. IWI, and some of its sponsors have also provided sponsorship funds and grants to Green2Gold and teamed up often for the YIPEE!, youth, teacher, and parent projects.

the Ultimate Crisis Ecological Educational Presentation with Solutions for Survival 1972

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GROUP created, produced, promoted and presented this important awareness raising and educational project.

‘The Ultimate Crisis Ecological Educational Presentation with Solutions for Survival’ was presented
across the United States to schools, service organizations, conventions, companies, and governments totaling over 900 educational presentations. 

The Green2Gold Incubators Project 1972 - CURRENT


SUMMARY:

One of Environmental Education Group’s pioneering missions with its Green2Gold Environmental Entrepreneurship Program was to educate and facilitate cities and nations to create Green2Gold mixed tech, mixed use, community based non- profit, incubators/accelerators to foster environmental entrepreneurship, invention, innovation and renewable energy development. Green2Gold’s mission expanded on this premise to include the incubation, education, and mentorship of public benefit, socially and environmentally responsible non-profit organizations, and in the most recent two years, including social venture organizations and public benefit corporations.

In addition, in this charter, Green2Gold has assisted the members it has obtained in bringing their ideas, technologies and services to commercialization via educational workshops, seminars, showcasing events, conferences, and expositions, as well as, educational training, and tutoring.

To date, forty four (44) Green2Gold related incubator projects are in various stages of development in the

United States and overseas.

Initially, these projects were carried out through international travels, presentations and workshops, to help

facilitate and bring resources to the communities that were interested in this program. More than thirty (30)

public benefit non-profits have been founded and/or assisted through the Green2Gold/EEG programs.

A number of non-profits and social ventures are umbrellaed under the 501-C3, EEG exempt status to assist them in receiving non-profit donations, grants, gifts, and in kind that are tax deductible to the donors and the sponsoring/granting institutions.

An example of our success of the Green2Gold processes have included Continental Wind Power, that expects to employ one thousand(1000) in our region and create significant medium scale renewable energy electric power for communities, agriculture, school districts, military installations and universities and colleges.

A list of companies and Non profits that we have assisted can be made available upon request.

The Public Interest Report Publications 1973-1983

PROJECTS:

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GROUP produced of a series of publications called, ‘Public Interest Report’, that covered virtually every major vital subject matter concerning the planet and its problems and solutions, such as food, population, air pollution, energy crisis, nuclear terrorism, to noise pollution, water conservation, etc.

RESULTS:

‘Public Interest Report’ was widely acclaimed and received the assistance in editing and writing of Pulitzer Prize Winner Tony Schultz. This project was funded with the support of the Environmental Alert Group, and private citizens raising a total of $240,000 budget over five years to research, write, create, publish, produce, and disseminate over 400,000 issues.

Energy Options For Man Films & Educational Charts 1973

SUMMARY:

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCTION GROUP created an extensive study for Ralph Nader, the United Nations and the Scientist’s Institute for Public Information called ‘Energy Options for Man’. EEG raised approximately $70,000 in funding to produce these charts and reports and distribute them to members of Congress and United Nations countries at that time.

RESULTS:

Rockefeller Foundation granted $100,000 to produce a series of 20 minute short films,
depicting the individual options of energy sources. This led to the contributed authorship about these energy options featured in the ‘Energy, Earth and Everyone’ book with a forward by Buckminster Fullers.

The Solar Energy Society of America Joint Venture 1974

SUMMARY:

Environmental Education Group co-created a project with the Solar Energy Society of America to produce monthly journals entitled, ‘Energies’. This project was funded for $140,000 by the Solar Energy Society of America and the Environmental Alert Group.

results:

The Energy Conservation Institute sponsored EEG’s research, development and contributions for the opportunities afforded by energy conservation, including:

• Advancement of energy conservation

• Examination of alternative energy sources

• Facilitation of methods for energy recovery

• Encouragement of recycling

• Providing a forum for energy suppliers, scientists, public officials, corporate officials, and consumers

• Development of energy conservation policies and programs

• Identifying new career opportunities in energy conservation and more.

Additional funding was raised by subscriptions and advertising. These journals were distributed to members of the Solar Energy Society of America, as well as external subscribers.

1975

summary:

• The Inventors Workshop International (IWI)

• Los Angeles Council of Engineers & Scientists

• The Orange County Engineering Council

• The Institute for the Advancement of Engineering

•The Engineers Club of Los Angeles and other institutions.

Innovative alternative systems and pollution control exhibits from across the USA, were the featured theme.

results:

• A presentation was made introducing the Independence House (see 1976 Independence House Project)

• 60,000 attended throughout the 4-day event

• A Great Idea Contest Awards Ceremony was held in conjunction with Inventors Workshop Intn’l KIWI AWARDS

• Widespread media coverage attracted the general public, industry, government, and investors.

Environmental Education Group co-sponsored a 4-day ‘Inventors Expo2’ event in collaboration with the following:

Project:

The INVENTORS EXPO2 AT THE LA CONVENTION CENTER

Project:

The Independence House Project 1976

summary:

To celebrate the bicentennial of America’s Independence , a fully functional home was
Constructed in California that incorporated a showcase of working new inventions and technologies that enabled the house to generate all of its energy from renewable sources and sell excess energy back to utilities or neighbors.

Results:

• World wide media coverage

• Demonstration of Green2Gold technology prototypes that included solar energy, collectors for electricity, heating, air conditioning, water heating, as well as an attic based wind turbine, and a garbage and human waste running powerplant.

• Various technologies have progressed to licensing and venture development with applications to farms, homes, commercial buildings, government buildings, military bases, as well as schools.

Public Service:

LA MAYORS energy policy committee 1976 - 1978

Summary:

An executive level committee was appointed by the Mayor of Los Angeles to reflect leaders in industry, education, energy and environment, finance, and infrastructure. The founder and president of Environmental Education Group was appointed to this committee. The mission was to provide advice on the present and future energy policies for the city that would include reducing pollution, create higher efficiency, and develop the role of the Department of Water and Power in renewable energy.

Results:

Environmental Education Group/Green2Gold resources were used to complete reports and studies on potential alternative energy resources and conservation technologies.

 LA Environmental Quality Committee 1976 - 1978

Summary:

A high level, citywide committee was established to explore and advise on legal issues related
to pollution, the mediation, protecting the quality of life, and long range enforcement policies to protect the environment of the city. The EEG founder was appointed to this committee.

Results:

New regulations, new policies, and new enforcement to protect the air, water, land, and citizens of Los Angeles were established.

USA Bicentennial Celebration ‘Creativity in America’ 1976


Summary:

Environmental Education Group/Green2Gold were co-sponsors, co-producers, and co-presenters of a national 4-day conference and exposition at Seaside Park, Ventura, California. This event consumed all the main buildings of the park and featured experts from fields of invention, innovation, entrepreneurship, and eco-businesses.

Results:

• Sited in the United States Congressional Record as an event to help America

• Over 100,000 attendees

• Hundreds of invention exhibits

• Massive media coverage prior, on-site and post-event

• Number of entertainment and government VIP’s attended and presented

• Awards Ceremony for the National Great Idea Contest in 17 categories of creativity

• Thousands of school children attended

• This event generated net revenue from sponsorship, exhibits, attendees and program advertising, to provide $85,000 in funding for Environmental Education Group world helping projects.

MORE COMING SOON! 

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GROUP

Environmental Education Group BOARD OF ADVISORS FOR THE CALIFORNIA SPACE ENTERPRISE CENTER PROJECT

Environmental Education Group has selected and elected a specific board for the California Space Enterprise Center Project that will ensure its success. This board is totally dedicated and completely qualified to bring about the results that EEG has set forth in regards to the completion of the CSEC.

Chairman of the Board, Professor Alan Tratner

Alan Arthur Tratner, is the International Director of Green2Gold and the President of the Inventors Workshop International and the Entrepreneur’s Workshop, Director of the Small Business Entrepreneurship Center in California, a SCORE (US SBA) consultant, and was publisher of the Lightbulb Journal and INVENT! magazines. He is an inventor and serial entrepreneur, with 13 inventions/patents. He has been dubbed the “Minister of Ideas” by the media and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc., Entrepreneur, Business Week, TIME, USA Today, America Online Forum, NPR, and has appeared on OPRAH, CNN, Good Morning America, and CNBC. Alan has mentored and assisted thousands of green technology, sustainable ecology and energy companies and ecology, inventors, new product. He was a former Professor of Environment and Energy, participated in the First International United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm Sweden, was staff member of Environmental Quality Magazine and helped establish Earth Day. He founded the Environmental Education Group Foundation with many supporters, including Nobel prize winner Dennis Gabor. Alan traveled the USA conducting the Ultimate Crisis and Solutions for Survival seminars, led an environmental and alternative energy delegation to the former Soviet Union for the Citizen’s Ambassador Program. He was editor of Energies Journal for the Solar Energy Society of America, published the Geothermal Energy magazine and Geothermal World Directory. In the 1990’s he became Director of the Green Business Conference of the ECO EXPO, created the Eco Inventors and Eco Entrepreneurs Workshops, and the New Environmental Technologies Exhibits.

Alan founded the Green2Gold project and which holds workshops and facilitates incubators for sustainable enterprises to foster new renewable energy technologies and green products/service around the world. Alan has served on numerous boards and committees and projects in the public and private sectors and was appointed by the Governor of California as the Southern California Director of Sun Day--the international solar energy event. He is a nominator for the annual Lemelson/MIT $500,000 award to American Inventors. He has presented over 4000 workshops from Stanford University to Moscow and has received recognition and awards from the White House, State Governors and City Mayors across the nation.

Alan is the voluntary International President of the Inventors Workshop International (IWI) and Entrepreneurs Workshop, that the Wall Street Journal featured in the “Idea Factory.” IWI has helped over 30,000 members and realized tens of thousands U.S. patents, new products, and technologies.

Alan had teamed up with the late actor/humanitarian Dennis Weaver to expand the Green2Gold Incubator to foster sustainable, environmental and renewable energy sources, new eco-compatible materials and products, and created the Young Eco Inventors Contest for kids.

* A Green2Gold Incubator is a learning/teaching facility where new green companies are

mentored into successful, profitable operations.

Mr. Tratner founded Geothermal World Corporation – Publisher Geothermal Energy Geothermal World

Directory and other publications such as:

Creator: “Energies” Journal for the Solar Energy Society of America

Creator: “Invent!” Magazine

Created and Published a Comprehensive Series of “Public Interest Reports” on Environmental Topics

Contributions/Columns:

• Environment Quality Magazine

• Editor in Chief: LightBulb Magazine

• Energy Options For Man Featured in “Energy Earth & Everyone” Book, foreward by Buckminister Fuller, and authored by Medard Gabel.

• “Energy Options” for Man Report- Project for United Nations

• Documentary film with Rockefeller foundation on Alternative Energy Sources

• Multimedia Presentations for Environmental Communications Inc..

• Creator: “Teachboard” on Inventing Interactive Semi-Permanent Exhibit Proposal at California

Museum of Science and Industry.

• Inc.. Magazine

• Entrepreneur Magazine

• Santa Barbara News Press: Business Section- “Inside Business”

• Los Angeles Times Small Business

ADVISING & CONSULTING:

• Solder Enterprises (Mexico) on Internal Innovation/ Licensing

• Director and Consultant: Energy Conservation Institute, Redwood City, California

• President and Founder: Geothermal World Corp (International Publishing Corp of Trade

Publications: Monthly Geothermal Energy Magazine and Annual Geothermal World Directory)

• Co-Inventor/ Partner Chapman Engines International

• Foundation for Alternative Energy, Beverly Hills, California

• Member Mayors Energy Policy Committee and Alternative Energy Sub-Committee, City of LA

• Images Now! Agency, Public Relations, Advertising, and Photography Partner

• Consultant to Making Ideas Happen, LLC, and RNV Ventures (Clients: Petsmart, QVC Products Works,

California Integrated Waste Management Board/ RMDZ/ RecycleStore.com)

• Private Design and Consulting: New Products Development

• President/ Executive Director of Inventors Workshop International and Entrepreneurship Workshop

• Founder/ President Environmental Education Group Foundation 501-C-3

• Executive Director Geothermal Energy Association (Trade Organization)

• Director YIPEE! (Youth Projects)

• Board Member of the National Gifted Childrens Foundation 501-C-3

• Director, Small Business Entrepreneurship Center

• Project Manager Santa Barbara County SBDC, Program of the U.S. Small Business Association

• Executive Director Green Retailers Association

• Creator Great Idea Contest/ Imagination Fair

John Palmer, Board Member for CSEC

John Palmer graduated from the University of Southern California, with an MBA in Finance and Economics and post-graduate work in Education Administration. Mr. Palmer was a Program Coordinator for Space Camp and member of the Naval Institute.

Mr. Palmer went on to open ‘University Systems’ to design, program and market the first financial aid calculator for universities and colleges.

Mr. Palmer then formed WonderWorks Entertainment with a partner. At WonderWorks, they worked on “Space Camp the Motion Picture (1984)” where John built his first space shuttle flight and mid deck, shuttle nose and space suits. The next year the equipment was donated to Space Camp in Huntsville. John helped them install the sets and built the first space shuttle flight motion simulator for the public, in the USA. A year or so later they added a second one. And WonderWorks flight bridge became their poster for two decades. Since then John has built over 20 flight bridges, half a dozen mid deck, a couple of cargo bays and a dozen space station modules, all in full scale, as well as three full-scale shuttle noses and a dozen Mercury and Apollo capsules.

We worked with Buzz Aldren for several months designing and building models of his concept for the space station. We have maintained a friendship over the years and last worked together again in 2006 on “The Astronaut Farmer”. Mr. Aldren consulted on the films “Apollo 11” and “Earth to the Moon”, which John also worked on, and Apollo 15 Commander on his Martian Explorer “Grendle” project, and again on “Apollo 13” .

Mr. Palmer is currently planning to have Buzz host on a reality show they are developing called “SpaceQuest”. Like “The Apprentice” it’s an elimination contest over 13 weeks testing contestants using

NASA astronaut training methods, suits and equipment. Mr. Palmer has worked on some 50, of which about 25 are space oriented, running from low budget to $140 million (see IMDB report attached).

Our success at Space Camp prompted the Museo de los Niños museum in Caracas in 1989 to have WonderWorks design and build the first fully hands-on interactive space museum program at Ninos to handle large numbers of classroom students and introduce them to rockets and space flight. Many of the exhibits work together to provide a complete picture of the exploration of space. As students grow older, their curriculum delves further, so the equipment can handle K through 12 and is useful to college level students as well.

In addition John’s team helped design the educational programs at the 5th and 11th grade levels to coordinate student visits with easy use of the equipment students when they arrived.

By the time John built the capsule and Lunar Lander for “Apollo 13” they had collected a large number of space pieces, a flight deck, mid deck, space station modules, LEM, Apollo & Mercury capsules, space suits and other pieces and they began to think about using them educationally. So in 1998 they partnered with their local governments of Canoga Park and West Hills plus the Fallbrook Mall to open a space-learning center called SPACE PLEX.

Mr. Palmer is the only designer who has built space equipment and actually ran a space education program and knows the challenges and pitfalls. In addition, WonderWorks began working with NASA and Rockwell in the early 80’s to refurbish the first shuttle mockup Rockwell built at their shuttle fabrication plant in Downey. From that point on, when people or companies would contact either wanting anything shuttle, they would refer them to WonderWorks. We became the de-facto provider of things NASA to the film and museum community. And for NASA we have built hundreds of shuttle, space station and other models in all scales including full scale. They have built a large, very accurate shuttle cargo bay under a security clearance with the White Sands-Alamogordo Test Facility. Then constructed all of the “Star Wars” weapons in the same accurate scale and tolerances to make certain the weapons would actually fit in the cargo bay. Similarly, they have built a number of scale models and full-scale mock-ups for JPL (and other sub-contractors in the space industry). Mr. Palmer’s team has designed and installed exhibits at Kennedy Space Flight Visitors Center, NASA Lewis/Alabama Space Museum, NASA-Ames Research Center and the Johnson Space Flight Visitors Center.

Very early in their involvement in things space for NASA, they were approached by the Ames Research Center in Palo Alto to build the first full-scale mock up of the Space Hab (a space habitat). Space Hab was to be carried in the shuttle cargo bay to increase the number of crew, and in addition it could be configured as a lab or miniature factory for experiments in space, and then returned to the user for research. Their HAB at Ames remains an ergonomics study lab and is still in use today. Space Camp isn’t the only hands-on facility Mr. Palmer and his team has created. In 1996 they were asked by the city of Columbus, Georgia to design the exhibits and assist in the curriculum development for the Coca Cola Space Science Center located there.

A brief list of some of the locations where Mr. Palmer has designed and/or build exhibits relative to space:

Coca Cola Space Center - Space Camp/Huntsville

JFK Space Flight Visitors Center

Johnson Space Flight Visitors Center

National Air & Space Museum

NASA Ames Research Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

L.A. Space & Science Center

SPACE PLEX/Canoga Park

Oklahoma Air & Space Museum

U.C. Irvine

The Great Space Show/Daily City

Spirit of Flight Show/San Francisco

California Space Tour

Apollo 13 Exhibition/Universal Studios, L.A.

LEM Display/Universal Studios/Orlando

Space Bi-Centennial Celebration/New York City

Museo de los Niños/Caracas, Venezuela

Museo Technologico/Juarez, Mexico

Space Exploration Exhibition/Okinawa, Japan

Tama Space Center/Japan

Great Space Exhibition/Tokyo, Japan

Space Exhibit Center/Seoul, Korea

Aiines World/Seoul, Korea

Space Extravaganza/Beijing, China

FROBELAND Space Theater/Shanghai, China,

For over 28 years, Mr. Palmer has worked on films and television space and science related, for example:

Space Camp the Motion Picture

The Astronaut Farmer

Deep Impact

Armageddon

Space Cowboys

Red Glare, and many more.

Dr. Douglas E. Hersh, Board Member for CSEC

Dean of Educational Programs at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC), Douglas earned a triple-major Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University, a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership and a Doctoral Degree in Educational Leadership from Argosy University. He has worked in the University of California system, Internationally in Singapore and the Philippines, and in the for-profit sector as well.

At SBCC, Doug currently oversees the School of Media Arts, the Technologies Division, the Online College, the Faculty Resource Center, and Student Academic Technology Support. He is also responsible for technology in the classroom and online. In 2008 he began a project that transitioned the college from a costly, vendor-supported Learning Management System (LMS) to an open-source version free of licensing costs. In so doing, he was then able to customize the system into the “Human Presence Learning Environment” for which he has been recognized by numerous state and federal awards including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation/Next Generation Learning Challenges, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Technology Focus Award, the Hewlett-Packard Educational Technology Innovation Award and the Campus Technology Innovator’s Award in Teaching and Learning.

Once a roustabout on a Gulf Coast oil rig, Doug is currently restoring a classic Melges E-scow, is an avid inventor and Inventor’s Workshop International member, flies hang gliders and paragliders, produces documentary films and writes a regular column called “Pedagogy 2.0” for TechEDge, a publication of the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.

Derek Casari, Board Member for CSEC

Derek Casari has been involved in the Radio, Recording, Television and Film industries for more than 20 years. Currently a Systems Engineer for a major motion picture studio in Los Angeles, he works in various aspects of Post-Production sound for film/TV. An alumnus of Purdue University, he graduated from City College of San Francisco and studied additionally at the College of Recording Arts. While at DB Labs in Marin, he built custom pyrotechnics for Graham Central Station and performed front of house mixing for Jefferson Starship, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Pablo Cruise, and Steve Miller et al. He went on to work as a radio engineer for KMEL San Francisco, then for Xandu where he co-engineered Michael Bloomfield’s Count Talent and the All Stars. A diversion from the music industry led him to Ampex, where he built “black boxes” for the defense and aviation industries, subsequently transferring to Los Angeles where he trained customers on Ampex audio and video recorders. Vidtronics hired him where he was involved with audio quality control for telecine and systems maintenance. Helping A&M Records remodel their studios while working with various recording acts marked his return to the music industry.

His TV/Film recording experience began with Lorimar Telepictures where he worked on Dallas, Knotts Landing, Falcon Crest, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, Baywatch and numerous feature films followed by engineering stints at Todd AO and Sony Pictures Entertainment. He received an Emmy Certificate for his contributions on Mad About You, a Team News Corp Global Excellence award, has been a contributing editor for the textbook Film to Video and has written for the industry trade magazine Below the Line. His profile can be found on LinkedIn and IMDB.

As the Development Director for the Federation of Galaxy Explorers [www.foge.org] he is working to implement the organization’s goal of inspiring kids in space related science and engineering and creating other strategic alliances. Galaxy Explorers was created to prepare children for a future that advances a space faring civilization. In conjunction with that, he was a collaborator on the educational videogame MoonBaseOne, an educational tool to be used at Galaxy Explorer summer camps to teach kids about space and teamwork. It is freely available for PCs at http://moonbaseone.blogspot.com. Since completing a script with his colleagues, the team has finalized a video tour of the local solar system and is currently undertaking an X-Box MMOG game, tentatively called Rocketnauts. Recently he has made a contribution to http://mach30.org whose mission is to To hasten the advancement of humanity into a spacefaring civilization through sustainable leadership, open design practices, and a bias toward mature technology.

He is a member of the National Eagle Scout Association, a lector for St. Cyril’s parish of Encino CA, a member of Inventor’s Workshop International Education Foundation, a recipient of the James E. Haywood Space Education Award, an Eco Expo award winner, recipient of 2 Ampex product improvement awards, and holds a number of patents. He has been involved in the sustainability space since the 80s and is a member of the Green2Gold.org organizing committee and manages their web content.

Megan Joy Havrda, Board Member for CSEC

Megan Joy Havrda is a leader in Sustainable Business and the Green Economy.  She has worked at the helm of this blossoming movement as a consultant, executive, and business owner for over a decade working with the private sector, non-profits, and Governmental and Non-governmental organization’s including the US State Department, Conservation International, and Counterpart International, Women’s Economic Ventures, and Citigroup. Megan holds two Bachelor Degrees and a Master’s from George Washington University’s School of Business and Public Management.

Megan is an active environmentalist and is a Board Member for ESP Maya, which conserves a 5000 acre Maya Forest Reserve in Belize and Guatemala known as El Pilar (www.espmaya.org). She is also a Board member of Sustainability Guild International (a research and publication firm focusing on triple bottom business trends and case studies). Megan joined the EEG/Green2Gold International Advisory Board in 2010 and we are happy to have her on the Board today. Megan lives in CA and works nationwide bringing tree-free compostable packaging to the food service industry. Check out Be Green Packaging, which she helped to build from the ground up: www.begreenpackaging.com

Environmental Education Group INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. William B. Lee

Dr. William B. “Pete” Lee is Executive Director Emeritus of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, one of the largest maritime museums on the American West Coast. He held this position with the City of Los Angeles from 1986 until he retired in 2003. His employment history includes Executive Director of the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California and Executive Director and Curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. While directing the California Natural History Museum, Dr. Lee also oversaw the revitalization of the California Space & Science Center. He has been Visiting Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada and served as Visiting Critic for International Waterfront Projects at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.

Dr. Lee studied pre-medicine at the University of North Carolina and medical anthropology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He received a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Southern California, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has participated in postgraduate studies at the University of Southern California, the University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Before entering a doctoral program in Anthropology at UCLA he served in the US Navy, was Senior Medical Photographer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Associate Producer of the Medical Information Project of the University of Southern California’s School of Medicine and Producer/Editor of the UCLA Experimental Media Center. He has been Visiting Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada and served as Visiting Critic for International Waterfront Projects at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.

As a museum anthropologist specializing in the social/technical adaptation of cultures and the documentation of anthropological research, he has conducted field research in California, Arizona, Florida, Canada, Christmas Island (Pacific), Japan, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. He is a two term Past President of the California Association of Museums, an advisor for the California Council for the Humanities, the Western Association of Aviation Museums, the Santa Monica Museum of Flying and the Seattle Museum of Flight. In addition he consulted on the films Apollo 13, Space Cowboys and Rocket’s Red Glare. He is a graduate of the Getty Trust, Museum Management Institute, The University of Colorado Museum Management Program, and the Advanced Museum Management Program of the Deutsches Museum, Munich/Oberschlishheim, Germany.

Dr. Lee has served as a consultant for the Smithsonian Institution, NOAA, the Department of the Interior, the Office of the Naval Historian, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, and the San Francisco National Maritime Historic Park. He is a senior professional in the American Association of Museums’ Assessment Program. Dr. Lee has many awards and credits in film and television with over 20 appearances on the “Great Ships”, the History Channel and “California’s Gold. He was for many years the “voice” of the SS Lane Victory, WWII historic US Merchant Marine museum ship in the Port of Los Angeles. He worked with WonderWorks, (now PH Group) in the design and fabrication of displays at the nationally renowned National Civil War Naval History and is currently working on the CSS Neuse Gunboat Museum in Kinston North Carolina. In addition he is part of the committee handling the USS Battleship Iowa when it comes to Los Angeles in January 2012.

In addition to his interest in aerospace, aviation, merchant maritime and naval history, oceanography, navigation, space flight (he watched Sputnik on the evening it was launched in October, 1957). He is an experienced diver in SCUBA and Hardhat equipment, was Director of the 1990 documentation of the 1923 US Navy Disaster at Pt. Honda, at present Vandenberg AFB. He lectures frequently on museum studies, aviation and aerospace history, the history of navigation and scientific exploration.

Other Environmental Education Group International Advisory Board Members

Lielle Arad, Environmental Education Group Board Member, Chairman of the International Advisory Board

Glen Roberts, US Dept of Commerce, US Commerical Service, Renewable Energy Team

Sandy Lipkin Esq/Intellectual Property and Business Law

Patty Dedominic, entrepreneur, Past President of NAWBO, Founder Intl womens festivals

Gerald Harter- Entrepreneur, Former Chairman SBA SCORE Chapter

Chitra Vivek, Member India Innovation Association

Dr. Leeanne Kryder, Professor of Communications, UCSB, Founder Sustainable Business Plan competition

Dr. Anthony Pereira, Prof.of Sustainability at UCLA

Hiroko Tabtebe, Director of GOLD org/Japan

Prof. Brad Payden, Engineering UCSB, Founder of Launch Point Technologies

STRATEGIC ALLIANCES AND VOLUNTEER CONSULTANTS for Environmental Education Group

Burnet Brown - Strategic Marketing and Research Funding Consultant for CSEC

Mr. Brown offers a unique blend of experience in the fields of commercializing new technologies, developing corporate sponsorships and marketing strategies related to energy, automotive, aerospace, innovation and entrepreneurship. He has worked with both Fortune 500 companies as well as startups. He has collaborated with engineers, scientists entrepreneurs, investors as well as economic development alliances. Mr. Brown has strong working alliances with the Society of Experimental Test Pilots based adjacent to Edwards Air Force Base. Mission: To tackle many of the formidable technology challenges facing the U.S., from global warming and clean energy and transportation to inspiring and educating new generations of students and engineers with the many lessons learned from landing twelve men on the moon and sending spacecraft beyond the solar system into deep space.

Yuri Pikover - Special Advisor/Consultant to Private Investor/Angle/Venture Community for CSEC

Mr. Pikover is a Managing Director of 37 Technology Ventures, a boutique venture fund focusing on growing early-stage startups, and serves on boards of various companies. From 1993-2008 Mr. Pikover founded and held executive roles in Xylan, Access360, 5square, Folsom Lake Nissan, and served on boards of 10 companies. Prior to 1993 Mr. Pikover held technical and management positions with Micom Systems and

Fibermux Corporation.

Craig D. Allen - CFA, CFP, CIMA, President of Montecito Private Asset Management

Mr. Allen has been managing assets for foundations, corporations, and high-net worth individuals for over twenty years. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA charter holder); a Certified Financial Planner (CFP); and holds the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) certification. Mr. Allen holds a Master of Pacific International Affairs (MPIA) degree from the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California San Diego (2003), with a Career Concentration in Comparative Policy Analysis, and a Regional Concentration in Latin America. He also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Finance from Stephen F. Austin State University (1990). Mr. Allen is the author of the book, “Short-Term Decisions equal Long-Term Disasters”; (iUniverse; 2003), presents financial markets update each week on radio KZSB - AM 1290 in Santa Barbara, writes a weekly column for Noozhawk (www.noozhawk.com), wrote a weekly column in the business section of the Santa Barbara News Press, and writes an economic and financial market blog—FinanceWithCraigAllen.blogspot.com.

Other Strategic Alliances and Volunteer Consultants for Funding include:

CAPFLOW FUNDING - CapFlow Funding is a commercial finance platform that provides needed working capital to small and medium sized businesses. The four partners have over 75 years of international credit and finance experience and have helped numerous start-up and growing businesses achieve their goals by providing unique funding solutions. Most funding is secured through inventory and accounts receivable assets. CapFlow’s Purchase Order funding program can provide much needed liquidity during the product manufacturing stage and can enable businesses to enter the marketplace quicker and with larger scale compared to internally funded operations. In addition to offering working capital, CapFlow provides advisory services and third-party operational/administrative support which is invaluable for growing entities. The managers at CapFlow believe that success is built upon partnership and teamwork and welcome the opportunity to discuss their involvement in the achievements of their customers.

Maverick Angels - International Network of Angel Funding

California Coast Venture Forum & The Clean Business Investment Summit -

Angel and Venture Capital Funding

The California Space Enterprise Center Citizen’s Advisory Committee

This voluntary committee made up of the breadth and length of the regional sectors of the Santa Barbara County and Lompoc Communities serves the task of providing positive inputs and recommendations to the International Advisory Board of the Environmental Education Group in matters and issues that help support the long term success of the CSEC.

Environmental Education Group RESPONSIBILITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Through the years, Environmental Education Group has become a world helping organization with our nucleus being responsibility. Under these conditions we are being approached with many projects all over the world. To handle these many projects effectively and efficiently and with our promised overview of responsibility we select experts to be on boards that deal and focus specifically on certain projects. Our Environmental Education Group Responsibility board of directors, has as one of its functions the job of making sure all boards that are chosen for specific projects are making their recommendations and their decision choices for their specific projects, with the utmost integrity and responsibility to our communities and to our world. In this way all decisions are ran through this EEG responsibility process. With these safeguards in place, our supporters and our sponsors remain confident and will continue to support and promote our world helping services.

Alan Tratner, Chairman of the Board

Alan is a full time volunteer 100% dedicated to the responsibility aspect of EEG projects.

(for more details on Alan, refer to the bio above)

Lielle Arad, Teasurer/Secretary

Lielle Arad is the Chairwoman of the International Advisory Board for Environmental Education Group
and is a full time volunteer 100% dedicated to the responsibility aspect of Environmental Education Group projects. Ms. Arad is a Certified Professional Ontological Coach since 2001, and has professionally and personally coached Non-Profit Leaders, Entrepreneurs,Mothers, Celebrities, Trauma Victims and Adolescents. Lielle founded and developed ‘The Evolving Mother’, a support training program, and ‘MotherBank’, a complimentary currency system, as well as a Media Company. Lielle also has extensive college level teaching, sales management experience, and is the Global Director and Spokesperson of Public Affairs for the International Non-Profit World Helping Organization, FD3. Lielle is involved with FD3 in an original process that is bringing personal and collective world changing workshops and true solutions and balance to our planet. She is involved with the organization, production and the assembling of many serious world helping non-profit, huge, save our planet events.

Kyle Schulte, Board Member

Kyle Schulte has been working with non-profits since high school. Kyle has years of construction experience, as well as research and design expertise, but most importantly, Kyle is a full time volunteer 100% dedicated to the responsibility aspect of Environmental Education Group projects.

Disclaimer: The following information and materials compiled for this history of Environmental Education Group are derived from historical documents,media, and internal notes. These documents may contain errors and omissions relating to specific dates, locations, people and institutions.

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