- -: Would You Pay More for Greener Products? - Emmy Berlind
July 8, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/24/Marketing_Sustainability_and_Innovation Emmy Berlind of Green Works by Clorox explains that despite hard economic times, consumers seem willing to pay premium prices for environmentally friendly products. Allison Quaid echoes that sentiment, arguing t...
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- -: Is Carbon Capture and Storage Unrealistic? - Mark Deisendorf
July 10, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/24/World_Bank_Praxis_Discussion_Series_Energy Dr. Mark Diesendorf argues that while he hopes to see carbon capture technology available eventually, it currently isn't a practical solution. He adds that in addition to being impractical, it serves to sipho...
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- -: Amory Lovins: US Climate Change Goals Not Ambitious Enough
August 18, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/16/Will_It_Cost_the_Earth_to_Save_the_Planet Amory Lovins argues that reducing carbon emissions would be doable and profitable if the focus was on energy efficiency. He says the U.S. is already cutting its energy intensity without even trying. "Everybody...
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- -: Alicia Silverstone's One-Woman Campaign to Green Up Hollywood
November 13, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/19/The_Kind_Diet_Alicia_Silverstone Alicia Silverstone, actress and author of The Kind Diet, outlines her efforts to influence others to make eco-friendly choices. In reference to environmental benefit parties, she says, "It's the Hollywood thing - they'...
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- -: Van Jones on the BP Oil Spill: Drill, Baby -- Still?
July 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/29/Van_Jones_Inforums_21st_Century_Visionary_Award Environmental advocate Van Jones reflects on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and what society must learn from the catastrophe. "I've never heard of a wind slick; I've never heard of a sun spill," ...
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- -: Van Jones: Why Should Companies Get to Pollute for Free?
July 29, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/29/Van_Jones_Inforums_21st_Century_Visionary_Award Environmentalist Van Jones calls for a "serious" climate and energy bill to stop companies from dumping "planet-cooking pollution" into the atmosphere. "If you take away that right to pollute for free," ...
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- -: Griffith: Hydrogen Fuel Cells Not 'Holy Grail' for Energy
November 8, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/16/Long_Conversation_with_Jem_Finer_and_Saul_Griffith Inventor Saul Griffith examines the long-term sustainability of a number of alternative energy sources. On the popular topic of hydrogen-based fuel cells, Griffith warns that the technology is not yet...
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- -: Energy Sec. Chu: Budget Cuts Could take US out of Alt. Energy Race
April 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast At a Monitor Breakfast on April 1, Energy Secretary Steven Chu stated that budget cuts to alternative energy research would take the United States "out of the race." Chu also discussed proposed cuts to low-income energy assistan...
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- -: How a 'Feed-in Tariff' Could Revolutionize the Power Grid
July 26, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chq_spies_technology_espionage R. James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, discusses key methods for modernizing and improving America's energy grid. He explains that levying a "feed-in tariff" would allow individuals to sell energy from renewable s...
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- -: Creating a 'Green Impact Zone'
July 9, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)President Obama speaks about building a green energy economy and creating new jobs to employees of Smith Electric, a Kansas City, MO company that is using a grant from the Recovery Act to build all-electric trucks and help create a "Green Impact Zone" in a 150-block area of Kansas City. July 8, ...
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