Michael Garvin President of Renewable Energy Network for Aggregated and Intregrative Systems (RENAIS) Advisor to the University of Iowa Executive MBA program RENAIS LLC assists in identifying emerging "disruptive technologies" in the transportation and energy sectors. The company links research/development with investment and the stable equipment with market demand by setting production on a domestic and international platform. The company is currently involved in alternative fuel cars/trucks, thermal fuel cells and high efficiency alternative fuel generator sets.

1. Emerging Technologies that Are
Driving the Effort to Stop Climate Change
A thought-provoking two-hour presentation on leveraging the self-
interestdriven decisions of governments and corporations around the
globe.
There is no evil plot directed by some criminal group to propel climate change. There are just millions
upon millions of individual decisions that have occurred over the last 150 years. Each decision was made
primarily from a view based in "self-interest". Adam Smith, the Father of Capitalism, believed that the
collective wisdom of millions of self-interest based decisions would guide the economy and the society
to higher levels of prosperity. For the most part, he was right. What he failed to take into consideration
were ALL of the costs involved. Especially during the early years of the industrial revolution, the costs of
environmental pollution were NEVER figured into the cost of personal or industrial processes. So now
we find ourselves at the point of receiving a bill for those 150 years of carbon release that, frankly, we
don't know if we can pay.
But if our crisis was created by
tens of millions of decisions to use
carbon-emitting technologies for
150 years, we can now devote our
future to making decisions to use
technologies that do not release
carbon pollution. There is a
second industrial revolution occurring around the globe- from China to
Canada- from Berlin to Bogota. This revolution involves governments and corporations working to
find technologies that provide critical power and transportation services but that will not release
carbon emissions. This presentation, given by Michael Garvin, discusses these technologies and how
they are giving those concerned about climate change real hope and viable options that we can not only
stop its impacts but reverse them in the near future. Mr. Garvin is considered an international
specialist on paradigm shifts and will explain how the process of bringing these carbon-free
technologies to market is being accelerated by free market financial
incentives as well as personal and governmental concerns about
climate change.
This is a hopeful
presentation for a
dire situation given
with humor and
plenty of options.