Opening Plenary and Reception, featuring Elizabeth Grossman
 Welcome to the 2010 Summit. Enjoy the reception and opening plenary with author, Elizabeth Grossman, a freelance writer and journalist specializing in environmental and science issues. Ms. Grossman is the author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry (Island Press, September 2009), High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Watershed: The Undamming of America, and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark Trail, and co-editor of Shadow Cat: Encountering the American Mountain Lion.
Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Washington Post, Salon, The Huffington Post, Scientific American online, The Nation, Mother Jones, AlterNet, ClimateProgress and Grist. She's received support for her work from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Overbrook Foundation, Oregon Literary Arts, The Nation Institute, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and Chemical Heritage Foundation, and has been a science journalism fellow at the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Ms. Grossman holds a B.A. in literature from Yale University and lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Dr. James M. Fenton has been Director of the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) since January 2005, where he leads a staff of 140 in the research and development of energy technologies that enhance Florida's and the nation's economy and environment and educate the public, students and practitioners on the results of the research. FSEC, created in 1975 by the Florida Legislature to serve as the state’s energy research institute, is the nation’s largest and most active state-supported renewable energy and energy efficiency research institute.
