Denis Hayes To Promote Clean Energy In Portland

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Media Advisory, For Immediate Release

Denis Hayes To Promote Clean Energy In Portland

Organizer of First Earth Day In Town to Promote Race to Stop Global Warming

OREGON, LAKE OSWEGO, Apr. 26 -/E-Wire/-- Denis Hayes, President of the Bullitt Foundation â and organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970, is coming to Portland to meet with city officials, promote a "Race to Stop Global Warming", and talk about the current energy crisis and how it impacts the northwest.

Fresh off a tour of the east coast for Earth Day 2001, Hayes will visit the city's fuel-cell powered waste water treatment plant and hold a joint news conference with City Commissioners Dan Saltzman and Erik Sten to promote Portland's Local Action Plan on Global Warming (http://www.ci.portland.or.us/energy/whatsnew.html). The plan passed the City Council on Wednesday, April 25th. Finally, Hayes will push Portland's "Race to Stop Global Warming" â a benefit for the Green House Network, a local environmental non-profit organization.

What: News Conference with Earth Day Organizer, Denis Hayes

Who: Denis Hayes, City Commissioners Saltzman and Sten

Where: Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant, Portland (5001 N. Columbia Blvd. â 2 miles west of I-5); Mt. Hood Room.

When: 3:30pm â Friday, April 27th

Why: To Announce Local Action Plan on Global Warming and Promote Clean Energy Solutions

Hayes is President of the Bullitt Foundation, a $100 million dollar environmental foundation based in Seattle.

The Green House Network is a Portland, Oregon-based non-profit organization dedicated to grassroots public education about the economics, politics and peer-reviewed science of global warming. Its goal is to help foster a broad social movement - uniting citizens, students, and businesses- to create the clean energy future that can stop global warming.

Denis Hayes Biography

Denis Hayes left his graduate studies at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to coordinate the first Earth Day in 1970, an event often credited with launching the modern American environmental movement. Twenty years later he headed the first International Earth Day, with 200 million participants in 141 countries. Denis returned in 2000, to serve as chair of the 30th anniversary of Earth Day and remained as head of Earth Day Network, the group coordinating Earth Day activities worldwide.

Today, Denis is President & CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, a $100 million environmental philanthropy located in Seattle. An environmental lawyer by training, Denis has published more than 100 articles, books, and papers on energy and the environment.

During the Carter Administration, he headed the federal Solar Energy Research Institute (now the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). From 1983 to 1988, Hayes was an adjunct professor of engineering at Stanford University. He has served as Director of the Illinois State Energy Office, Senior Fellow at the Worldwatch Institute, and Visiting Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution.

In 1993, he received the Charles Greeley Abbot Award of the American Solar Energy Society, and in 2000 he was elected as a Fellow of the Society. In 1979, Denis received the national Jefferson Medal for Greatest Public Service by an Individual under 35. Hayes also has been awarded the John Muir Award in 1985 by the Sierra Club and the highest honors awarded by the National Wildlife Federation, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility.

Time magazine selected Hayes as one of its "Heros of the Planet;" Look magazine named him one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th Century; and the National Audubon Society included him in its list of the 100 Environmental Heroes of the 20th Century.

Hayes is or has been a trustee or director of Stanford University, Greenpeace USA, the World Resources Institute, the American Solar Energy Society, the Federation of American Scientists, the Energy Foundation, the League of Conservation Voters, the Humane Society of the United States, the National Programming Council for Public Television, CERES, and Children Now.

The Green House Network

http://www.ci.portland.or.us/energy/whatsnew.html

http://www.greenhousenet.org

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