Three of my guests on this year’s edition the “Year-end Round-Up” are back from last year.  Again this afternoon we have Dr. Lewis Perelman from Virginia, John Puma from Mount Vernon, John Berenyi from New York and all over the world and Dr. Bob Flower, who joins us for the first time from Bronxville, NY. The topic today will be a review of the year 2009, reflections on how to turn the country around, and predictions for 2010. My special holiday guest in the studio will be Ms. Dana H. Garfunkel, the Assistant Director of ecruitment at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Our first guest this morning is Dr. Lewis J. Perelman is a Washington-DC policy and management consultant.  A native of Mount Vernon, New York, and one of my oldest friends, he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from the City College of New York, and went on to study space and planetary physics at Columbia University and Harvard University.  He later earned his doctoral degree in administration, planning, and policy from Harvard, where his studies focused on sustainable economic development. Dr. Lewis Perelman has over thirty years of professional experience focused on the processes of innovation, sustainability, and resilience—as a consultant, analyst, author, publisher, and teacher.  Since his graduate studies at Harvard onward, Dr. Perelman has had a long professional interest in sustainable development.  Earlier in his career, he worked on renewable energy R&D and policy initiatives for the US Dept. of Energy. In 1992 he gained renown for his best-selling book “School’s Out”, which anticipated much of the revolution that the Internet and information technology would end up causing in learning, work, and the keys to business success.  Since 2001, Dr. Perelman also has been actively engaged in work on homeland security, for the federal Homeland Security Institute and other organizations. Recently, Dr. Perelman has been working on the connections between infrastructure resilience, security, and sustainability as a consultant to several associations, research institutes, and public agencies, and as a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Regulatory Science in Alexandria, VA.

John Berenyi currently he advises governments, corporations and non profit organizations from Mt. Vernon, NY to South Carolina and cities in South Florida on sustainability, risk management and strategic planning related to alternative energy. Internationally, he is an advisor on these matters to companies and public entities in Israel, New Zealand, Hungary and other areas. He has over 25 years of experience as financial advisor, technology and economic consultant and investment banker.  His work has been at the intersection of engineering, business law, urban planning, management, economics and finance. The focus of his activities: alternative energy projects, power systems, solid waste facilities, mass transit authorities, highways and bridges, affordable housing and mortgage finance, water and sewer systems, long term care facilities, non-profit institutions such as universities, museums, stadiums, hospitals and nursing homes.John has undergraduate and graduate degrees in industrial engineering, management sciences and applied economics and public finance from Columbia University and was named a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University. He worked as the Co-Chairman of the NY State Task Force of business and economic leaders and citizens established   to support the amendment to the NY State Constitution which now allows “Tax Increment Financing” by communities throughout NY.

John Puma is a career entrepreneur. His career has ranged from creating start-up businesses, to developing communications systems for multi-national communication giants, to building housing for the middle and working class citizens, and to developing alternate energy concepts for communities. John, who was brought up on Long Island, and gravitated to Mount Vernon, was educated at the State University of NY in Buffalo earned a degree in Management & Finance and earned another degree in TV Production at NYU. John is interested in encouraging and developing local and market interest in alternative Energy and the effort to wean our economy from fossil fuel dependency. Today John is the NY Tri-State Area Manager for Standard Renewable Energy charged with building out operations for Standard Renewable Energy bringing Renewable Energy to the Northeast. SRE is the leading Renewable Energy Company in the US with 2 primary products – Solar Systems for Homes and Businesses and Energy Efficiency Products and Services – most importantly the Weatherization of Homes and Businesses. One can find out more information at www.SRE3.com and he can be reached at 877-923-7733. 

Dr. Robert Flower, who is a resident of Bronxville, NY, is a graduate of both Fordham University and Walden University with a BA degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Philosophy along with Organizational and Systems Sciences. Bob is a successful entrepreneur, scholar and adventurer who has spent 29 years analyzing human potential and developing a methodology for achievement. Through his discovery of the Laws of Potential and development of Natural Intelligence and Thinking, Dr. Flower has achieved tremendous personal success, and helped others to set and reach their goals as well. As Director of The Gilchrist Institute for the Achievement Sciences, a sociopolitical/economic think tank since 1982, he discovered the Laws of Potential and Natural Intelligence. He has written 3 books on Potential and Intelligence and lectured on the subject twice at the United Nations (1991, 1992). His books are published in 3 countries. As a General Systems Specialist (expert in learning, potential and intelligence) he has been frequently featured in newspapers and magazines, and has appeared on national radio and television programs.*
He also hosts 2 shows: The Public Advocate in several cable markets, and The Master Pattern Report -- an international internet show where Dr. Flower predicts economic, political and stock market activity with incredible accuracy. WEBSITES: www.drbobflower.com

John Puma, Dana Garfunkel, Bob Flower	Richard and Dana Garfunkel
John Berenyi	Lewis J.Perelman