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The Green Skeptic
Steve Rayner: Dear Mr. President, Deal with Climate Change
Steve Rayner, climate policy expert and lead author of The Wrong Trousers: Radically Rethinking Climate Policy (PDF), is featured in this month's Wired Magazine. He's on the "2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To" (no matter who wins).
Mr. September? RGGI Holds First CO2 Auction, Clearing Price of $3.07
Reggie Jackson may have been Mr. October, but there's a new RGGI in town.
What is the New Green Economy?
Tonight, I was asked what does the New Green Economy look like?
My answer was in part that last week the old economy finaly died after an incredible run.
Now it is time for an economy that is built on sustainability, inclusiveness; about high quality green collar jobs -- real jobs here in the US, the kinds of jobs that can't be exported overseas. (That means installation, efficiency, and greater R&D.)
It's about prosperity as much as it is about the health of the people and the planet.
Google and GE Entering Partnership on Smart Grid Technology
From New York Times: "Google and General Electric said Wednesday that they would work together on technology and policy initiatives to promote the development of additional capacity in the electricity grid and of 'smart grid' technologies to enable plug-in hybrids and to manage energy more efficiently.
"The companies said their goal is to make renewable energy more accessible and useful."
Is It Time to Green Financial Services?
"I'm hoping the financial services sector catches on to the green trend," Frank Baldassarre, president and CEO of e3bank, told the crowd at today's forum sponsored by the Pennsylvania Green Growth Partnership in Hershey.








