Edward Furia

[1] The Committee was made up of 33 students, professionals, leaders of grass roots organizations and businessmen who were concerned about the environment.

[1] Furia highlighted the Earth Day 20 activities on April 22 in George, Washington with two live satellite phone calls.

[4] The first call was with members of the historic Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb (it was the first time in history that mountaineers from the United States, Soviet Union and China had roped together to climb a mountain), who called from their base camp on Mount Everest to pledge their support for world peace and attention to environmental issues.

[4] The second call was with President George H. W. Bush, who spoke directly to Furia and the assembled crowd about his support the Earth Day.

[4] Since 1990, Furia has been CEO of AFS Trinity (previously American Flywheel Systems),[6] a company that has developed a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle called “The Extreme Hybrid”[7] that has been test-driven by journalists from The New York Times,[8] The Washington Post,[9] ABC World News,[10] CBS Evening News,[11] CNN,[12] and Salon.