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Roy Morrison

 
 

Director, Office for Sustainability, Southern New Hampshire University


Roy Morrison sustainability@snhu.edu

Roy Morrison is Director of the Office for Sustainability at Southern New Hampshire University. He is working on the development of renewable energy hedges and on a new utility revenue model to encourage efficiency and distributed generation. On campus, he pursues a variety of sustainability projects, including a zero carbon campus initiative for SNHU to use, on a net zero basis, renewable resources for all its heat,cooling and  electricity needs, employing technologies such as biomass cogeneration, large PV arrays, and ground source heat pumps.These willl be combined with real-time price control for the smart grid based on ISO-NE 5-minute price signals using a satellite pager network and the Internet to send price signals to a programmable control device; and innovative geothermal systems using return water flows to generate electricity to minimize net pumping energy.

Morrison is a energy consultant with almost 30 years of diverse experience. He has extensive experience in energy efficiency work, performing energy audits and technical assistance analysis for business, institutional, and government clients. He was the author of the first law in the nation for municipal aggregation for retail electric competition. He also founded the New Hampshire consumers Utility Cooperative that was the first seller of competitive electricity in New Hampshire.He is currently at work on development of large solar farms in the Northeast using renewable hedges to aid in finance.

In 2009 at a Beijing University conference on Ecological Civilization he was recognized as first globaslly to discuss ecological civilization as a concept in a book, Ecological Democracy.

His books books on ecological transformation and economic development include We Build the Road as We Travel: Mondragon, A Cooperative Social System (1991), Ecological Democracy (1995), Ecological Investigations (2001), Eco Civilization 2144 (2005), and Markets, Democracy and Survival (2007). As a poet, he has authored The Loggers of Warner (1994) and many other poems.

His next book, A New Way Together, on sustainability and building an ecological civilization will be published in both the United States and China.

He has long experience as a grassroots safe energy and nuclear disarmament activist. He was a member of the Clamshell Alliance from 1976 to 1990 opposing the Seabrook nuclear plant. He served as media staff person for the Clamshell Alliance and as New Hampshire codirector of the Nuclear Freeze and Freeze Voter. In 2008, he is involved in efforts to launch a campaign calling for prompt and massive reduction in the human production of greenhouse gases.

Roy Morrison is 63 and married to Luanne Baker. He is a kayaker, hiker, and father to Sam Schaffer-Morrison, 17.

 
 
 
 
Last Updated: January 7, 2010