History
Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy
As CEO of the Center for twenty five years, Norris McDonald has been blessed with a wide variety of experiences.
Staff and offices have shifted over the years.
His personal and professional circumstances have also shifted over the past two decades.
Marriage, divorce, birth, death, up, down and all around -- the ride for him and Center is not over yet.
Fortunately, the Center has provided many people with invaluable moments and hopefully we have made a difference.
Below you will find important Center moments frozen in a snapshot.
A picture is worth a thousand words and we want to provide you with a limitless view.
Canyon DeShelly at the White House Ruins on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.
Norris McDonald in the middle with Robert Redford kneeling to his right.
Navajo Chairman Peterson Zah is at Redford's right (1984).
Center Board member and consultant Derry Bigby and Norris McDonald
with housing inspector conducting and energy audit in Washington, D.C.
Environment Magazine Award (1991)
Center Internship Program 1989. The Center placed interns at:
1) Sierra Club, 2) United Nations Environment Program, 3) Greenpeace, 4) Chesapeake Bay Program,
5) Maryland Governor's office 6) Environment & Energy Study Institute, 7) Scenic America,
8) American Lung Association, 9) Natural Resources Defense Council, 10) American Forestry Association,
11) Global Tomorrow Coalition, 12) Environmental Action Foundation, and 13) National Wildlife Federation.
Center took the interns from the Capitol to the outback of tributaries to the Anacostia River
Center reception at Washington Bullets (now Wizards) game with Congressman Albert Wynn,
Norris McDonald, Prince George's County County member,
Bullets point guard and Center board member Frank Johnson (1986-1990)
and Center board member Derry Bigby backstage at the Capital Centre after a basketball game.
Center sponsored Anacostia and Potomac River tours in the 1990s.
Our 22 foot Boston Whaler was docked at Seafarer's Yacht Club, the first African American boat club in the United States.
Center President Norris McDonald is pictured releasing lines to begin the tour with inner city youth.
Center geologist Dr. Gustave Jackson is standing in the middle of the boat. McDonald also piloted the boat on the tours.
Norris McDonald at the helm. Kids are seated with life jackets on. Dr. Jackson stands at right.
Norris McDonald, Greenpeace president Peter Bahouth and Center founding board mmeber Dick Gregory
National Wildlife Federation Conservation Award presented to Norris McDonald
by NWF Chair and Executive Director in Tucson, Arizona ( 1997)
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Center assisted Avesta Sheffiend Steel company in addressing pollition issues at the site
and took Baltimore inner city youth on a tour of the facility.
President Roy Cooke, Avesta Sheffield-East President is in green at left,
Joe Duncan, President of the United Steel Workers of America, Local 1245
in the middle and Norris McDonald at right at the steel plant near Baltimore.(1998)
Center participated in river clean up with EPA Region III during Earth Day
around and in Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1988)
