ADVISORY/Energy and National Security Forum.

Business Editors

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (March 12)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2003

Discussion Subjects of Interest to Reporters:

-- The "Real" Cost of Middle Eastern Oil

-- How Secure is the U.S. Power Grid?

-- Can Bush's Hydrogen Vehicle Proposal Make a Difference in 5 Years, 10 Years?

-- How Can the U.S. Improve Its Energy Security?

WHAT:       Energy and National Security Public Forum
            Cosponsored by: NESEA & The Worldwatch Institute
            Free, public event of the Building Energy 2003 Conference

WHEN:       Wednesday, March 12, 7 p.m.

WHERE:      Room 101 in Bldg. 34, at 50 Vassar Street
             on the MIT Campus

WHO:        Jeb Sharp, moderator, WGBH/BBC foreign policy reporter for
             "The World" radio program
            Christopher Flavin, speaker, President of The Worldwatch
             Institute, co-author of State of the World book series
            William Holmberg, speaker, President of Global
             Biorefineries, Chair, New Uses Council
            Jefferson Tester, speaker, former Director of the MIT
             Energy Laboratory
            Joel Gordes, speaker, President of Environmental Energy
             Solutions

INFO:       Go to: www.nesea.org, click on Building Energy Conference
             2003, then public forum section or call [phone]

CONTACT:    Fred Schlicher for credentials and interviews
             [phone] or [e-mail]

NESEA is the nation's leading regional membership association involved in promoting the understanding, development, and adoption of energy conservation and non-polluting, renewable energy technologies.

Worldwatch Institute (www.worldwatch.org) is an independent research organization that works for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society, in which the needs of all people are met without threatening the health of the natural environment or the well being of future generations.