From Green Right Now Reports
President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote speech today to kick off annual Climate Leadership Summit for members of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. Six hundred fifty college and university presidents have joined the effort, a comprehensive global warming initiative through which schools are committing to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions on their campuses, dedicating research and programs to the development of climate change solutions, and training their students to address the climate crisis upon graduation.
Approximately 250 higher education leaders are expected to attend the summit in Chicago.
“The sustainability and climate efforts on college and university campuses nationwide are a great start and an inspiring example for all of society, but they are not happening fast enough to match the speed and severity of climate disruption,” Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University and a co-chair of the ACUPCC Network, said in a statement. “We’ve come together this week to get down to business to figure out how to accelerate the pace and success of our efforts.”
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Clinton (Bill), Solis, Villaraigosa to join Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas
From Green Right Now Reports
As the economy shows early signs of picking back up, commentators are abuzz about whether the revival will be a “job less” recovery.
Green advocates hope the recovery with come not just with jobs, but with new employment in clean energy, alternative power and other green industries.
Green jobs will be back atop the agenda at the Clean Energy Summit 2.0 next Monday in Las Vegas. The second annual summit, again hosted by US Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and the Center for American Progress Action Fund has attracted a long list of dignitaries and green leaders.
Summit leaders announced today that former President Bill Clinton will attend, along with Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Others already on the list of those expected:
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Tags: · Al Gore, Antonio Villaraigosa, Bill Clinton, Clean Energy Summit, Harry Reid, Hilda Solis, Steven Chu
Energy conference: no time to wait on smart grid
By John DeFore
Green Right Now
A high-powered conference on the future of energy in America was held Monday in Washington; while it produced some consensus about the foundation necessary to meet future needs, it suggested there might be conflicts ahead in getting there.
Attendees, who ranged from former president Bill Clinton to officials at state utilities, heard plenty about the necessity of a new “smart grid” capable of shuttling electricity cross-country from renewable sources like wind and solar farms to the high-density cities that need the juice.
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Tags: · Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Electricity, Harry Reid, National Clean Energy Project, smart grid, Steven Chu, T.Boone Pickens
