[2] Michael Potter is also the current vice chairman of Manna Energy Foundation and is the Founder of the NGO, Geeks without Frontiers.
Manna currently has projects in Rwanda and Kenya involving the installation of biogas generators, high-efficiency wood stoves and solar-powered water-purification systems.
[3] Michael Potter is currently a Senior Fellow at the International Institute of Space Commerce, an institute dedicated to the study and promotion of space industry [4] Potter produced the documentary film "Do You Dream in Color," which premiered in 2014 at The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana.
The documentary is the coming-of-age story of four courageous blind high school students as they strive to prove that their disability will not hold them back from achieving their dreams.
[5] Potter also produced and directed the award-winning documentary film Orphans of Apollo, which premiered in 2008 at the New Space Conference in Crystal City, Virginia.
Potter wrote a chapter of the "Handbook of Cosmic Hazards & Planetary Defense," edited by Dr. Joe Pelton & William Ailor, Aerospace Corporation, James Green, NASA, Michael Marov, of the Russian Academy of Science, and Tommaso Sgobba, Executive Director of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, Spring Press 2015 (to be published).
[13] His essay, included as a chapter in this handbook, is called "The Greatest Planetary Defense Gap: Operation & Execution," and was published in 2014.
[16] He also wrote "The Real Intellectual Origins of Smaller, Faster, Cheaper: An Underground Student Movement," printed in San Francisco in 1995.