Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
Former Executive Director:Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Greg's pachyderm is blowing bubbles (or are they buckyballs) and is featured on our animation wheel. Greg was a cartoonist in a former life.
In October 1999 Greg was named the first program director for the MTC's Renewable Energy Trust.
From 1995 to 1999 he served as executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. Prior to that he has been with: Second Nature as its Director of Educational Programs; The Nature Conservancy's Eastern Regional Office as its Director; Massachusetts Department of Food and Agriculture as Commissioner.
Prior to that, Greg was the Executive Director of the New Alchemy Institute. In 1983, he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Affairs, a post he held until 1989. From 1983 through 1986 he also served as Deputy Director of the Massachusetts Centers of Excellence Corporation. He became the first Director of the Massachusetts Office of Science and Technology in 1986.
Greg currently serves on the board of directors of Ocean Arks International ,the E.F. Schumacher Society, the Clean Air-Cool Planet, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute. He attended Tufts University where he majored in Civil Engineering. He also developed a self-directed program in Environmental Design Science at Campus-Free College in Boston.
Greg has a Yogi Berra shrine by his desk and a couple of letters from Carly Simon on the wall, and he tells really corny jokes. Greg plays softball and sometimes things he is Brooks Robinson, forgetting that he was a previously a catcher. Other favorites are The Three Stooges, Bob Dylan, The Band, and Newts! Watch out!
I guess that I learn best by having to actually solve a problem. I like to be placed in challenging situations that demand creative thinking and problem-solving. I have found that the best way to solve such problems is by applying the principles of comprehensive anticipatory design science as developed by Buckminster Fuller. Bucky advised those who would listen to always approach a problem by thinking about it in terms of the largest relevant whole system. Once I have a sense of a particular whole system I feel pretty confident that I'll be able to identify its various parts and the relationships among them. I particularly enjoy working on teams composed of people who have different perspectives and learning styles. That creates many opportunities for generating interesting synergies.