Big Energy n Climate Confab in DC on Feb 23
Published February 22, 2009 @ 06:07PM PT
Heads up....There is a big a confab called “National Clean Energy Project: Building the New Economy” tomorrow (Monday, February 23, 2009) in Wash, DC.
Sponsored by the Center for American Progress' Action fund, most of the big energy and climate players will be there: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, President William Jefferson Clinton, Vice President (and Nobel Prize winner) Al Gore, Energy Secretary (and Nobel Prize winner) Steven Chu, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), and Representative Ed Markey (D-MA).
Rumor has it that there will be lots of high level discssion of the grid and about moving America to a renewable energy economy at the big CAP confab. I, for one, cannot wait to hear about it. The CAP energy summit should get a good bit of media coverage (how can it not? TWO Nobel Prize winners? a former President? The Senate Majority Leader?), so watch for it. I suspect the new energy grid will get some airtime tomorrow, which is good news. You can actually watch it live via streaming video if the technology gods allow.
If you want to read more about the green grid, Bracken Hendricks, 1Sky board member and Center for American Progress Fellow, has written a fantastic paper on the green grid that you can access here if you are up for a deep dive and want to know more.
This is going to be a great week for important steps toward solving the climate crisis. Starting with this summit of climate leaders and ending with the PowerShift 09 (a gathering of 10,000 climate activists -- many of them students.)
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Liz Rose
- Washington, DC
Here's one thing I'll be watching for; the first person willing to admit that as a perfect step between fossil fuels and totally renewable non polluting energy sources is the one answer no one ever even mentions.
Hemp for energy independence. We could have been supplying 90% of our energy needs with bio mass production of hemp since 1905.
Posted by Steve Holms on 02/27/2009 @ 04:20AM PT
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