Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen
Consultant, Writer, and Teacher in Bronx, New York
Health, healing and wholeness are dominant themes in my life, and are coming together in my interests in Whole Foods, Plant-Based, nutrition and lifestyle and spiritual healing.
As co-founder of BCM Industries, these interests may gain a professional dimension in the context of autologous organ repair.
MY business is about energy retrofitting as an intra-marignal investment for property owners, at the intersection of engineering, finance and economics. With rapid advances in energy technology, this is where the money is.
My prime focus is the economics of energy retrofitting and sustainability, and making on-site renewable generation a good investment with DaBx Demand Side Solutions. My goal is maximizing property values, while minimizing the environmental burden. Consultant and manufacturer's rep on energy retrofit solutions. Writer, translator. Originally from Rotterdam, Holland, based in Bronx, NY.
Background in Linguistics, followed by a business career covering payment services, commodities trading and maritime transportation, including developing IT systems, and economic modeling. BA Economics summa cum laude at Fairfield University (1993), and since 1991 increasingly devote time and energy to my chosen spiritual path of A Course in Miracles. Active in innovative business ventures, and community. Enjoy working on disruptive technologies and business models.
2018 Certificate of Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. Have a blog about local plant-based information at https://starlingaveplantbased.blogspot.com and a website about deeper issues of the plant-based lifestyle, from serious cooking to health care reform at HippocratesSays.com
Translator of Gary Renard into Dutch, author of Closing the Circle: Pursah's Gospel of Thomas and A Course in Miracles. Translator of Nouk Sanchez & Tomas Vieira's Undoing the ego into Dutch, and recently of Margot Krikhaar into English. Intermittently working on the translation of J. W. Kaiser from Dutch into English.
Active in my community as former Chair of Community Board #9 in the Bronx, and involved with Whole Foods, Plant-Based lifestyle.