About Village Energy
Barnett S. Koven, Co-Founder and ChairKoven, who developed and adapted the small scale anaerobic process currently used by VE, is the Treasurer and Member of the Executive Board of Directors at World Information Transfer, a not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization in General Consultative Status with the United Nations System tasked with providing actionable science based information, on health and environmental issues to the United Nations System, its member-states, and civil society actors.
Koven serves on the International Advisory Board for Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, an international organization working to advance sustainable development and promote democracy at a global level and is also an Executive Committee Member of the Council of Organizations of the United Nations Association of the United States of America.
Koven volunteers as a translator and field administrator on medical aid missions to Latin America with Healing the Children, a not-for-profit organization committed to meeting the healthcare needs of children worldwide. Contact Mr. Koven
Moses McCall, Co-Founder and Vice-ChairMcCall is an electrical and software engineer. While working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, McCall developed a passion for earth science. Recognizing the importance of preserving our natural environment he left NASA to pursue his goal of creating a more sustainable world. In addition to his role at VE, McCall serves on the United Nations Association's Economic Development Committee and is a staff writer for City Renewed a comprehensive online guide to green living in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. McCall has extensive experience in internet marketing of environmental not-for-profit organizations. Contact Mr. McCall
Lynn Lurie, Member of the Board of DirectorsLurie is an attorney specializing in not-for-profit law who has, among other things, worked on a broad reaching initiative to repatriate Indian lands in the State of New Jersey to the Delaware Indians, as well as at a Community Development Corporation charged with providing low income Section 8 housing under the Clinton Administration. In the private sector she has broad experience in commercial transactions. Lurie previously served as a Peace Corp volunteer in Ecuador during which time she procured funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development to build a factory in the highlands. In addition she covered Ecuador, Panama and Colombia for Business International as a financial reporter.