[SEMCO] Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs to Discuss State’s Energy Policies at MBL, November 16

[Gina Hebert]

The public is invited to attend this MBL lecture  presented by 
Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles 
on November 16.  Please share with your colleagues

Thanks,
Gina Hebert




For Immediate Release:                  
November 7, 2007

Contact: Gina Hebert
508-289-7725; ghebert at mbl.edu

Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs to Discuss 
State’s Energy Policies at MBL Lecture, November 16


MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental 
Affairs Ian A. Bowles will return to his hometown of Woods Hole to 
discuss the state’s energy policies in the final lecture of the 2007 
Semester in Environmental Science Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series 
on Friday, November 16, 2007 at 3:00 PM in the Marine Biological 
Laboratory’s (MBL’s) Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole.

The lecture, titled “Science, Public Policy, and Economics of Clean 
Energy in the Commonwealth,” is free and open to the public. Public 
parking is available in the MBL’s Bar Neck Road parking lot, 33 Bar Neck 
Road, across from the Woods Hole Yacht Club.

Last March, Bowles approved the final environmental impact statement 
submitted by Cape Wind to construct a wind-turbine farm in Nantucket 
Sound. This action advanced Cape Wind’s proposal to the state permitting 
process. Bowles’ lecture will address his stance on the controversial 
wind-farm project, as well as other energy initiatives in the state.

Bowles has nearly 20 years of experience in the energy and environmental 
sectors. He was a Director or Advisor to three clean energy technologies 
companies and has broad leadership experience with environmental policy. 
Bowles served in the Clinton Administration as Associate Director of the 
White House Council on Environmental Quality and as Senior Director of 
the Global Environmental Affairs directorate at the National Security 
Council.

Following his service in the Clinton Administration, Bowles held 
appointments as a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of 
Government and as Senior Advisor at the Gordon and Betty Moore 
Foundation, where he oversaw the foundation’s strategic analysis of 
energy and climate change issues.

In 2003, Bowles served as President and CEO of MassINC, a Boston-based 
research institute, and as Publisher of CommonWealth magazine. Earlier 
in his career, Bowles served for eight years in key leadership positions 
at Conservation International, a national environmental organization 
focused on biodiversity conservation. Bowles serves on the Board of 
Overseers of the Museum of Science and on the Governing Board of the 
John Adams Innovation Institute. He is co-author of Footprints in the 
Jungle (Oxford University Press) on the energy and natural resource 
industries and environmental practices. He holds an A.B. in economics 
from Harvard College and a Masters degree from Oxford University, where 
he remains an adjunct faculty member at the graduate school of the 
Environment and Geography.

Bowles’ talk at the MBL caps off a series of lectures by some of the top 
practitioners of environmental science in the world. The lectures are 
organized by the Semester in Environmental Science program at the MBL 
Ecosystems Center, which gives undergraduate students from around the 
country the opportunity to spend their fall semester studying and 
performing research with leading-edge scientists in the field.

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Gina Hebert

Associate Director of Communications

Marine Biological Laboratory

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Woods Hole, MA  02543

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