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Listen to podcasts relating to climate and energy policy, BICEP and Ceres.
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Power Play: Turning clean energy legislation into an economic windfall in the Beehive State
Mar 29, 2012
- When eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, built its first ever data center in South Jordan, Utah, it wanted to use clean energy to power much of the facility -- to both reduce its environmental impact and stabilize energy costs for company down the road. But by law, Utah didn't allow large energy consumers to buy and transmit power directly from renewable energy developers, leaving eBay with the choice of sourcing their energy needs from coal (which powers 94% of the state), or not doing business in Utah.
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California Dreaming: Making Carbon Reduction Legislation a Political Reality
Jan 25, 2011
- In this episode, we’re joined by Kevin Kennedy, executive officer of California’s Air Resources Board’s climate division and main architect of the bill’s cap-and-trade rules. Kennedy describes the process and progress on climate policy in California and what it might mean for carbon management in the rest of the country.
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A Brave Green World: Revitalizing American Labor for a New Energy Economy
Nov 18, 2009
- This episode, we are joined by Jeff Rickert, Director of the AFL-CIO Center for Green Jobs who talks about how the new energy economy is our best hope to revitalize American labor so we don’t get left behind in the global clean tech markets of the future.
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Pumping Political Iron: Consumer Companies Flex Their Climate Change Muscle (Part 3)
Apr 14, 2009
- The Ceres podcast caught up with Jim Hanna, Environmental Affairs Manager at Starbucks Coffee Company to talk about Starbucks' views on climate and energy legislation and the company's involvement in Ceres' new coalition, Businesses for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP).
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Pumping Political Iron: Consumer Companies Flex Their Climate Change Muscle (Part 2)
Apr 14, 2009
- The Ceres podcast caught up with David Douglas, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer at Sun Microsystems to talk about the company's views on climate and energy legislation and the company's involvement in Ceres' new coalition, Businesses for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP).
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Pumping Political Iron: Consumer Companies Flex Their Climate Change Muscle (Part 1)
Apr 14, 2009
- The Ceres podcast caught up with Sarah Severn, Director of Horizons Corporate Responsibility at Nike at to talk about Nike's views on climate and energy legislation and the company's involvement in Ceres' new Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP).
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From Concentrate: The Next Generation of Solar Energy
Jan 29, 2009
- To shed some light on the advantages and shortcomings of solar technology, we caught up with Reese Tisdale, Research Director for Renewable Power Generation at Emerging Energy Research.
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Green Power: Building a Green Workforce to Support a Green Economy
Jun 23, 2008
- Ceres recently caught up with Van Jones, President of Green for All and director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, to discuss how new technology and energy solutions to the climate crisis can also help solve urban poverty, unemployment, and inequality in America's workforce.
