Events
San Francisco REBN happy hour, August 2006
Networking happy hours
REBN-Boston will regularly (about every six weeks or so) hold informal networking happy hour events in the Boston area for renewable energy professionals, investors, and researchers to meet and learn about each others' efforts.
For REBN-Boston's next event, we’re very pleased to break up the happy hour format a bit to invite members to the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemisty (in Wilmington, MA, details below). The good folks at the Institute have kindly offered to host REBNers for a brief talk about the emerging green chemistry market, and then a tour of their labs, followed by wine and cheese (and networking, of course!). Should be a very educational and fun site visit!
The event will be held on May the 19th, starting at 6:30pm. See below for information on the Institute and their location.
Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry
100 Research Drive
Wilmington, MA 01887
(978) 229-5400 (main)
The Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry is dedicated to the development of non toxic, environmentally benign and sustainable technological solutions for society. The Institute is staffed with a diverse team of scientists and engineers focused on assisting our industry partners to develop sustainable technologies, processes, and products. At the Institute, the principles of green chemistry are applied at the molecular level during the process of design and development of a material. By design, these materials are cost effective and perform as well or better than the existing technology they replace. Recent innovations at the Warner Babcock Institute have drawn from the research areas of crystal engineering, molecular recognition, and self-assembly.
The Warner Babcock Institute recently expanded operations, moving into a larger facility in Wilmington, Massachusetts. This facility has 40,000+ sq. ft. of office, conference, and laboratory space, housing $5M of state of the art instrumentation for chemicals and materials research. In addition to our research and development capabilities, we offer professional training geared toward scientists and engineers who are seeking to implement the principles of green chemistry in their companies and laboratories. Short courses and seminars are available in green chemistry, sustainable materials design, and toxicology.
The Warner Babcock Institute was founded a little over a year ago by Dr. John Warner, one of the founders of the field of Green Chemistry. Dr. Warner co-authored the seminal work Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, which first described the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry. Dr. Warner spent ten years in industry (at Polaroid Corporation) and another ten as a professor at the University of Massachusetts prior to founding the Institute. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, DC, as well as on the Science Advisory Board of Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), the Department of Defense's (DoD) environmental science and technology program. Last year, Dr. Warner chaired Arnold Schwarzeneggar’s Science Advisory Committee of the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Chemistry Initiative, which recently released landmark policy recommendations seeking to eliminate or reduce the use of toxic substances in products and manufacturing processes. Most recently he was named as one of the ICIS Top 40 ‘Power Players,’ a list that highlights the most influential people impacting the global chemical industry.
Thanks to all those who came out to the 2007 REBN events
REBN-East happy hour, May 31, 2007.
Other REBN events
In cooperation with leading local renewable energy organizations such as the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC), REBN will organize additional events and activities of interest to renewable energy professionals. Stay tuned for more details.