About
Passacantando’s career has taken him from Wall Street to philanthropy to a leading role in the global fight to stop climate change. He worked for Jude Wanniski -the “high priest” of supply side economics - and is a committed practitioner of non-violent civil disobedience as taught by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. He has a master’s degree in economics from New York University, as well as a record of a dozen arrests for engaging in peaceful protest. He has been quoted in every major newspaper, appeared on most major news programs and has been a regular commentator on environmental issues for Fox News programs.
Passacantando completed eight years as executive director of Greenpeace USA in 2008, the longest serving director in the history of the organization. Prior to Greenpeace, Passacantando founded and ran Ozone Action (1992-2000), the country’s first national non- profit focusing exclusively on global warming. He also served as the executive director of the Florence and John Schumann Foundation, where he directed resources to the grassroots renewal of democracy.
Passacantando now runs a business to provide the strategic thinking for sustainable energy and development projects and then helps deploy them in order to get these jobs done in “real time.” His specialty is opposition management — finding ways around the resistance of the ingrained fossil fuel industry in order that a green energy economy can emerge. He also provides training in opposition management and has served on the advisory board of the National Association of Environmental Managers.
Additionally, Passacantando is developing a non-profit venture, the Eco-Accountability Fund, providing resources to bolster the opposition research lacking in environmental campaigns.
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Dear Mr. Passancandato
Below is a link that reviews The World Transportation Relief Project — a mission to provide no-gas, no-emissions, solar charged transportation to developing nations and those in crisis through natural disasters.
Solar electric vehicles can make a difference from an economic, health, agricultural, educational and environmental standpoint in Third World and developing countries and those in crisis from natural disasters. The vehicles have the ability to be used for everything from transporting the general public, students, patients, the handicapped, farm goods, medicine, water, food and whatever else is needed without a drop of gasoline and no pollution. The solar cells, while used for keeping the vehicle batteries charged, can also be used for necessities - lights, phones, fans, small power tools, radios, etc. The vehicles can go 50-60 miles on a full charge via plugging in and some can carry more than 2,000 lbs. For remote areas without electricity, transportation can be scheduled every few days to allow for the vehicle to be charged from the sun and/or a charging schedule can be developed via electrified locations in the vicinity of a village. Keep in mind that at all times when the vehicle is in the sun — stationary or running, the solar cells are charging the vehicle.
We recently started a program that can help get clean-air transportation to those in need around the world. We are calling it “The Peace Lease.” Basically, the idea is to ask companies to add just one more vehicle to its fleet vehicle leasing program as a charitable donation. That vehicle being a solar electric vehicle that can be used by relief organizations around the world.
Please see the link below regarding the project. I look forward to discussing this important mission with you in more detail. We are currently working on projects for Liberia and El Salvador.
https://sites.google.com/a/solarevco.com/mobility/
Thank you for your consideration.
Regards,
Bob Kopach
312-852-0132