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. |
