Archives by Tag 'energy'

John Gamman Presentation at Fulbright Conference

CONCUR Principal and Senior Mediator John Gamman gave a presentation at the Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology Sustainability Conference in San Francisco on March 12.  The conference was attended by Fulbright scholars and practitioners from many countries.  The topic of John’s presentation was “How Collaboration Can Promote Environmental Sustainability“.  Dr. Gamman was appointed as [...]

Wingspread Foundation Water Funders Forum

CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary and Associate Rebecca Tuden teamed with conveners from The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread to facilitate a three-day workshop among 27 leading grant-making organizations involved in national and regional water resource efforts. The meeting was convened from January 13 – 15, 2010 at The Johnson Foundation in Racine, Wisconsin.   Participants in the [...]

Strategic Planning for NSF EPSCoR Initiatives in South Dakota and Mississippi

CONCUR has been retained to support strategic planning for Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) projects funded by the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) in both South Dakota and Mississippi. The RII projects in these two states are in the beginning phases and are intended to fund activities in eligible states to [...]

CONCUR Op-Ed on Climate Change Published in the Sacramento Bee, August 16, 2009

On Sunday August 16, The Sacramento Bee published an Op-Ed piece by CONCUR Principals John Gamman and Scott McCreary that puts forward a strategy for preventing solar, wind energy and other climate change-focused projects from getting mired in avoidable conflicts. The piece offers an assessment of the source of the potential conflicts and then [...]

Strategic Planning to Inform DOE R&D on Emerging Solid State Lighting Technologies (January 2007)

CONCUR co-facilitated a review of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) priorities for core technology and product development research on the topic of solid state lighting (SSL) at a national workshop convened in Phoenix, Arizona (January 31 - February 2, 2007). SSL, built on the rapidly-developing technologies of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and Organic Light [...]

Electric Power Research Institute, Strategic Planning

CONCUR conducted a strategic planning effort to evaluate the prospects for using mediation techniques to resolve low-level waste siting disputes. Specific emphasis was given to the value of a structured stakeholder analysis, and the conduct of a joint fact-finding process to distill and summarize technical information.