Director, Clean Energy Initiative
National Audubon Society
Garry George is Director of the Clean Energy Initiative of the Climate strategy of National Audubon Society (https://climate.audubon.org). He oversees a team of 3 to provide resources on clean energy planning, projects and permitting policies to the Audubon Network of 27 state offices, 465 chapters and 36 nature centers. He also collaborates with the clean energy industry and agencies on statewide and regional planning, individual utility-scale projects and federal and state permitting policies for wind, solar, storage and transmission to provide for rapid deployment of clean energy and conservation of birds and the places birds need now and in the future. His collaborations with industry include as past Chair of the Board of Renewable Energy Wildlife Institute (www.rewi.org), the Avian Solar Work Group (www.aviansolar.org), the Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative (https://neoceanplanning.org/rwse ) for offshore wind in the Atlantic, and POWER (Pacific Offshore Wind Energy Research Group). When not spending time with his 9-year old grandson Garry goes birding around the world adding to his world list of over 7,500 species seen out of the 10,000+ species in the world.
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM