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Pacific Bridges: Steven Chu and John Holdren May Shape U.S.-China Energy Relations

Posted in automotive, capital and finance, climate change, innovation, nuclear, policy, solar, transportation, uncategorized on Dec 22nd, 2008

GLF has been traveling and getting a little caught up on side projects, but let’s play some catchup.  Let’s pick things up with two specific appointments by President-elect Obama which have implications for U.S.-China energy relations–one being the 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Steve Chu of Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL) as the new Secretary of [...]

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Green Hops: Green is the New Red, White & Blue

Posted in climate change, green hops, transportation on Jul 4th, 2008

Happy Fourth of July to our American readers. As Thomas Friedman, renown New York Times columnist and cleantech convert, likes to say, “Green is the new Red, White and Blue.” US energy security and indeed economic development through the creation of green collar jobs depend on a thriving cleantech industry. In the international [...]

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China in spotlight as Bali climate talks begin

Posted in climate change, policy on Dec 3rd, 2007

Today’s headlines were predictably dominated by the new two-week round of  Climate Change talks in Bali, Indonesia, participated by delegates of some 190 countries.  This is the round where it is expected that negotiations for a successor protocol to the Kyoto Protocol, once the latter expires in 2012, are to commence (and hopefully conclude within [...]

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