Nora Maccoby

Nora Maccoby consults with a broad range of energy users, including members of Congress, the Department of Defense, the International Fund for China’s Environment, California and Maryland state governments, the government of Grenada, the New Energy Congress, private industry and cutting edge new technology entities. Nora is the Vice President of The Maccoby Group, The Stella Group, and co-founder of Nature’s Partners, a bipartisan non-profit foundation devoted to energy literacy/education. She has appeared on C-Span, led a workshop at the 2006 Tallberg Forum (Getting Green Technology to Market in Time) bringing together leaders in the investment world with green technology experts.Ê She also organized and hosted the Washington D.C. Green Salon and Blue Salon symposiums devoted to the world’s energy and water problems and solutions, the most recent of which was held at the Swedish Embassy’s new House of Sweden.

As an advisor to The International Fund for China’s Environment (and currently serving on the Board of Directors), Nora led a three week November 2005 international clean energy delegation, meeting with Chinese mayors, business leaders, provincial government leaders, and NGO and Chinese Government Planning and Reform Commission members to discuss energy projects, diplomacy and way ahead strategies to develop international clean energy partnerships and alliances.

Since 2005, Nora has been working with the Department of Defense to enact a new DoD energy directive highlighting conservation, energy efficiency, and the use of renewable energy technology, as well as working with Congress to advise the bipartisan Energy Defense Working Group. She is a critical player in the Energy Consensus, a Pentagon/DoD based, interdepartmental/interdisciplinary network of energy experts, thinkers, scientists, engineers, and leaders in the energy field, tasked with developing “energy smart” policies/strategies.

Nora’s advising of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in December 2005 on energy strategy helped establish a centralized DoD initiative which led to the creation of DoD’s Energy Conversation - www.energyconversation.org.

Born in Mexico City, Nora graduated from the Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C., where she first began documenting, on film and video, life in the United States. She received her BA in Theater and Government from Oberlin College, and her MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

Nora directed “Dropping the Bomb on My Street” (1994), winner of the Youth Jury: Leopard of Tomorrow at the Locarno Film Festival. Nora went on to co-write “Bongwater” (Jack Black, Luke Wilson, Andy Dick, Brittany Murphy) (1998) and “Buffalo Soldiers” (Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin) (2003), nominated for six London Independent Spirit Awards and winner of the 2003 London Evening Standard Award for Best Screenplay.

Nora is the Creator/Executive Producer/Writer of the new VH-1 show “The Becoming of Stephanie Spring”.

Between 1999 and 2004, she lived in Germany, England and The West Indies, writing movies, researching ancient religion, myth, astronomy, growing medicines and assisted with herbal medicine research. It was during this time that she became active in the clean energy movement, working as an advisor to the West Indian governments of Grenada and St. Vincent.

Disheartened by the national conversation, Nora returned to Washington D.C., where she partnered with Rachel Pearson, as well as the Vice Presidents of two large energy companies, Michael Wilson of Florida Power & Light (the largest wind power producer in the world) and David Brown of Exelon to establish Natures Partners, an energy literacy initiative to educate people in an entertaining way on the ABCs of energy; provide the public information on the pros and cons of each energy source, and help people make smart choices about energy use.

Nora has performed as a violinist at the invitation of the late King Hussein of Jordan, played classical Indian raga at a Divali Festival, and electric fusion in L.A. and San Francisco.

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