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Chabot Space & Science Center - Oakland's Place For Space | Icebreaker

Chabot Space & Science Center - Oakland's Place For Space

Chabot Space & Science Center - Oakland's Place For Space

Visit us to experience a NASA Ames Visitor Center, exhibits, telescopes, a planetarium, and more in Redwoods Regional Park of Oakland.

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chabotspace.org

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Brennan Blazer Bird

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Brennan Blazer Bird is an ecological educator, designer, natural builder, water harvester & appropriate techie who has led a diverse array of artistic and ecological projects around the world. He is the founder of the Peace On Earthbench Movement (POEM), an international movement that inspires youth to transform plastic waste into an artistic community-gathering place (www.earthbench.org). He is currently developing SolutionCraft - a venture that specializes in ecological building, design, and education with a focus on making simple ecological solutions more accessible. Brennan teaches workshops on composting, zero waste, solar cooking, natural building, water harvesting, appropriate technology, and permaculture / ecological design. Currently Brennan lives at an ecological homestead in Oakland, CA and is working on projects ranging from a chicken coop at a low-income school in West Oakland built from earthen materials and repurposed trash to an entire permaculture renovation and tiny home build in a Berkeley backyard. He is also developing water harvesting curriculum in Solano County as part of a green workforce development.

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I'm a PhD student at UW Madison in Prof. Dominic Groß's research group. I'm passionate about renewable energy, sustainability, and climate justice. My current research interests include power systems, inverter control, renewable energy integration and grid climate resiliency.

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Western Washington University - "Environmentally Sustainable Business Practice and Education". Currently Outreach Coordinator at UbrLocal, a web-based marketplace for hyper-local food. Renewable Energy Outreach Associate for 3Degrees; working with Seattle City Light and Puget Sound Energy's respective renewable energy programs.

Allison Fong, M.S.

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Clinical Psychology Doctoral Candidate at the University of San Francisco

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Broadband internet plumbing infrastructure: for Telco, CABLE, Wirelesses, Smarter Power Grid, Global Carrier-Grade Platform Management. Media infrastructure technologies (voice, data, video, photo, music, print, virtual, distribution, stream/conference, related context databases: media, health, DNA, & genome transactions). Human interface monetization (phone/internet, TV/internet, sensor/grid/internet, context attention tracking, growth hacking, & flow). Biometric interfaces: mobile, media, attention & transactions, voice, limbic internet, building an "empathic social internet" Wireless infrastructure: mobile transactions, entertainment, health, communications, mobile security, drones, eVTOL robots, mobile sensor/matter networks, hyper-spectral, mobile cellular, mesh, grid & high-density wireless traffic efficiency. Lawful surveillance, security tracking, profiling, policy, pattern forecasting & monetization. Power Grid infrastructure modernization (smarter grid for efficiency, communications, reliability & monitoring). High traffic density WiFi, power conserve WiFi, "internet of everything" Synthetic biology infrastructure for sequence, synthesis, structure, design tools, bioinformatics, "DNA LaserPrinter", open market for (read/write design, CAD biology, DNA libraries, genetics, biome, health), iGEM, DIYbio, longevity prize, de-extinction, policy, security, risk mitigation & education. Living organisms as applications platforms for "internet of living things" Evolutionary theory, culture, policy, theology, and bioethics. Innovation history, exponential technologies, Wikipedia, Erowid, Wikinomics, disruption & dematerialization. Human lifestyle optimization urban living sustainability. Connected community living, integrated health & theory. Astrobiology, open source public education & international public policy. Infinite game theory & evolution. Specialties: Theory, Practice, and Liaison