Liberal Repercussion

Solar Energy - The time is NOW

Jeff Perlman is a renewable energy consultant and musician living in Brooklyn, NY. He researches, writes about, facilitates and advocates cleaner, more sustainable ways of living, primarily solar energy and green buildings. Recently he worked on a
paper entitled "The Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Buildings" - showing the cost-effectiveness as well as environmental sensibility of building green buildings. (See http://www.cap-e.com, http://www.usgbc.org.) For Capital E (http://www.cap-e.com), he has done
several projects to evaluate and fund new solar technology companies. He is currently starting up BASIC - the Big Apple Solar Installation Commitment (http://www.basicsolar.org) - a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the adoption and usage of solar energy in NYC.

Jeff also moonlights as a musician - playing mostly klezmer (Eastern European Jewish folk/dance music) on his clarinet. (This is how he met Jim back in the summer of 1998 at KlezKamp West in Petaluma, CA.) Jeff's bands include the Village Klezmer Quintet, Klez Que C'est? and the nascent gypsy music collective Romashka.

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