Karen Bertram is President of International Environmental Solutions (www.wastetopower.com), a company that has developed a Conversion Technology for processing MSW to energy. IES has its first facility here Riverside County (Romoland, CA, now Menifee) and is the only U.S. waste conversion technology to be selected by Los Angeles County for its Commercial Demonstration Project. (Visit www.socalconversion.org for more information on L.A. County) Karen Bertram has interacted with the environmental agencies, both state and federal, and has comprehensive knowledge of the world’s leading conversion technologies. She has been invited to Renewable Energy conferences as a guest speaker and as part of discussion panels on environmental issues of conversion technologies, like the IES Advanced Pyrolytic Systems. Ms. Bertram was be featured on “Focus on America” on CNN in 2007 discussing how conversion technologies have a positive “Carbon Footprint” and allow for the production of renewable energy as we navigate down the road to zero waste. In 2008/2009 she appeared on behalf of IES on “The Economic Report” discussing the technology’s benefits to communities and the environment. As a graduate from Texas Tech University, School of Law, Ms. Bertram incorporated her legal knowledge and business experience to help complete the first phase of commercializing the IES Advanced Pyrolytic System. IES has several projects underway, to include multiple projects in Europe as well as a projects in the Caribbean, Turkey, and several under development in the U.S. |
