Can We Cultivate Energy? To provide practical answers to critical questions regarding sustainable energy, Jonathan Trent initiated a project called “Global Research into Energy and the Environment at NASA (GREEN).” This project, supported by Google, led him to investigate biofuels that do not compete with agriculture. With a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution

Jumping to Another World (And Back Again) As counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Keith Raffel held a top secret clearance to watch over CIA activities. As an entrepreneur, he founded UpShot Corporation, Silicon Valley’s first company based on a cloud computing model, and sold it to Siebel Systems. These days he stays busy writing

  Making Magic Meaningful Dr. Kim Silverman is Principal Research Scientist at Apple. His Ph.D. is from Cambridge University, and his post-doctoral research was conducted at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. By night Dr. Silverman studies the more “esoteric” arts. He is a president of the Society of American Magicians (Palo Alto), and

  An Opportunity to Revitalize America Kevin Surace, Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year, is on a mission to drive energy efficiency in the built environment, bring green jobs and manufacturing back to the US, and bring innovation to industries that had long lost it. Kevin wants to reduce the use of fossil fuels and

  Music Makes Me Tick Pete Stringfellow is a classically trained musician and vocalist with three college degrees in music and a masters degree in interactive multimedia. “Music makes me tick.” Immediately out of college, Stringfellow signed his first record contract with Classified Records as a songwriter, producer and recording engineer. While Pete is best

Providing a Free World Class Education Through Video Salman Khan (Sal) Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy www.khanacademy.org)– a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere. It now consists of self-paced software and, with over 1 million unique students per month, the most-used

Mentorship … Passing the Torch Phil Cousineau is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, lecturer and travel leader, storyteller and TV host. His fascination with the art, literature, and history of culture has taken him from Michigan to Marrakesh, Iceland to the Amazon, in a worldwide search for what the ancients called the