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Carbon Exchange 101

Eileen Tutt, Deputy Secretary for Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Cal EPA

Could carbon exchange be the best route to controlling emissions? Some argue that the cap-and-trade approach lets companies buy the right to pollute, while others see a way to encourage clean industry while boosting the economy.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on September 20, 2009.

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Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered

Woody Tasch, Chair and President, Slow Money; Author

Tasch is the chairman and president of Slow Money, a new nonprofit intermediary dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to enterprises that support the values that underline slow money, Tasch explains how we can “slow down” the flow of money to support soil fertility and local communities.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on August 27, 2009.

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The Truth About Green Business: The Potential for Jobs and Prosperity

Gil Friend, Founder/CEO, Natural Logic, Inc.; Author, The Truth About Green Business

Running a profitable business that takes care of the environment, provides meaningful jobs, and helps the community is an oxymoron, right? Not so fast. Friend suggests that green business practices are good for business and the world.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on August 18, 2009

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World Bank: Driving Incomes Up, Carbon Down

Katherine Sierra, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank Group

Are the world’s poor going to get shafted in the clean economy, just as they did in the dirty one? The World Bank is at the center of the great 21st-century challenge of reducing carbon while creating opportunity in emerging economies. When are those priorities in alignment? When do they conflict? How does the World Bank’s efforts relate to private capital and entrepreneurs?

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 28, 2009

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Curtailing Suburban Sprawl in California

Ted Droettboom, Joint Policy Director, Association of Bay Area Governments

As California’s population has grown, so too has the state’s thirst for expansion and elbow-room. As a result, Californians are spending more time in their cars than ever before. Longer commutes equate to higher greenhouse gas emissions, with roughly 40 percent of the state’s current overall emissions resulting from the transportation sector. Panelists will discuss recent state legislation that was passed to curtail suburban sprawl, as well as the impact legislation will have on individual citizens and the state.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on July 7, 2009

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Chevron + Sierra Club: Drilling for Common Ground

Dave O’Reilly, CEO, Chevron

Chevron and the Sierra Club both see renewable fuels as a growing part of our future. Yet as the world transitions to a low-carbon economy, they have different views on how that change should occur and who should bear the costs. Higher taxes? Voluntary conservation and efficiency? Government mandates? In their first-ever public conversation, O’Reilly and Pope discuss balancing energy and the environment in the 21st century.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on June 10, 2009

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The Road to Copenhagen: Are We on Track?

Bill Reilly, Chairman, Climate Works Foundation; Former Administrator, EPA

In six months more than 180 nations will gather in Copenhagen to hammer out one of the most far-reaching international treaties since the post-war order was established nearly 70 years ago. The Obama administration is taking a proactive approach. Environmentalists and businesses are weighing in. Is the world on track to make a deal? What will it look like? How is California helping set the agenda?

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on June 9, 2009

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Rethinking Buying and Building: A New Sustainability Chain

Andy Ball, CEO, Webcor Builders

Companies and consumers are being asked to think more about the full life-cycle of the products they make and buy. Whether making consumer goods or constructing skyscrapers, companies are coming around to such a cradle-to-cradle mentality. This panel, which includes the CEO of the country’s largest recycler, $14 billion Waste Management, will discuss innovations in design, materials and marketing that are convincing people and companies that being green is good for business and the planet.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience on May 12, 2009

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Clean Coal: Myth, or Reality?

S. Julio Friedmann, Carbon Management Program Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Coal-fired power plants are the largest U.S. emitters of CO2 and human-generated mercury, yet our nation is poised to build many new coal plants in the future. Panelists will discuss new technologies for carbon capture and storage and IGCC, and the implications of energy policy decisions on the health of our economy and our planet.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on April 28, 2009

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Biologist Birute Mary Galdikas discusses the connection between Indonesian rainforests and climate change.

Deforestation in Indonesia, driven largely by large palm oil plantations, has caused that country to become the

This program was recorded at The Commonwealth Club on April 27, 2009

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