CLEAN TECH INVESTOR SUMMIT 08

Agenda highlights for the conference include:

Elon Musk, Chairman of Tesla Motors and SolarCity and founder of PayPal and SpaceX, who will engage in a fireside chat with Technology Partners' Ira Ehrenpreis, the Clean-Tech Investor Summit Chairman.

John Podesta, Chief Executive Officer, Center for American Progress and former Chief of Staff to President Clinton, who will give an insider's view of federal energy policy.

Dan Reicher, Director of Climate and Energy Initiatives at Google.org and former U.S. Assistant Energy Secretary, who will discuss breakthrough opportunities in clean energy and the role of Google in advancing clean-tech development.

Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy and Jeff Sterba, CEO of PNM Resources are expected to have a candid conversation about renewable energy and smart grid technologies.

Dan Kammen, professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley and Christine Ervin, former president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Green Building Council, will give insider views, along with other panelists, on the carbon trading and green building markets.

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Households Respond to the Grid

An article found on Redherring that talks about an experiment which seems to suggests it has revealed crucial consumer behaviour in the US pertaining to energy usage.

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"A recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy has shown that households will reduce their electricity usage when given accurate, real-time information about their energy consumption and costs. The results of the year-long study were announced on Wednesday."

Green is Good

Business of Going Green Burns Bright

Carbon Crisis

Great Article found in the National Geog.

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"Here's how it works. Before the industrial revolution, the Earth's atmosphere contained about 280 parts per million of carbon dioxide. That was a good amount–"good" defined as "what we were used to." Since the molecular structure of carbon dioxide traps heat near the planet's surface that would otherwise radiate back out to space, civilization grew up in a world whose thermostat was set by that number. It equated to a global average temperature of about 57 degrees Fahrenheit (about 14 degrees Celsius), which in turn equated to all the places we built our cities, all the crops we learned to grow and eat, all the water supplies we learned to depend on, even the passage of the seasons that, at higher latitudes, set our psychological calendars."