Jumpstarting the New Green Economy

Larry Furman wrote “Green Energy: Our Future Depends On It,” published in Business Week Online, in February of this year. He writes regularly on Energy and Policy for Popular Logistics, and is working on “It’s Rainin’ Outside the Cave” songs of peace, love, politics and global warming. (You can hear tracks on XBColdFingers.com. A pre-release should be available in June). Furman served on the Manalapan, New Jersey Environmental Commission for 2007 and 2008. He is currently studying for an MBA in Managing for Sustainability at Marlboro College
in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Furman has over 20 years experience making technology work. He is currently employed as Director of Information Technology, for the firm of Popular Logistics. He has a patent pending on a widget advances the state of the art in data center technology by providing access to the console of rack mounted computer systems, while the rack door remains closed and locked. This enhances the physical and logical security of the computers in the racks and the information managed on the computers, and provides a more comfortable and more ergonomic environment for the operators and administrators working on the computers. He has a few ideas to enhance the ergonomics of TV Remotes and consumer GPS systems.

But clean sustainable energy is where he wants to focus. He first started thinking about off-shore wind farms in the spring of 1976, while a student at Rachel Carson College, at SUNY Buffalo. He testified before a New York State Legislative Committee on Energy, the Economy, and the Environment that “It’s theoretically possible to power the New York City Subways with electricity from wind turbines located off the shores of Long Island.” When he spoke on offshore wind before the Governors Blue Ribbon Panel” in 2005, he said “not much has been done in this country in the last 29 years. However, we now know that it’s not just theoretical. It’s possible. And it’s practical.”