Interview:
A New Kind of Corporation in California for a New Bottom Line
Q&A with Donald Simon
In October, 2011, Governor Brown signed into law AB 361 creating a new category of corporations in California: Benefit Corporations, whose bottom line can legally be more about social and environmental issues than profits. In a Q & A with Green Technology magazine, attorney Donald Simon discusses Benefit Corporations and why he has spent the last ten years helping to make them a reality in California. He will be presenting on Benefit Corporations at the Green California Summit. Click Here
Green Perspectives:
Mandatory Commercial Recycling Creates Manufacturing Jobs
The majority of recyclables collected in California are shipped to other parts of the US and the world for processing. The Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce is the only chamber in the state to administer one of the 35 Recycling Market Development Zones in California. It has begun a proactive campaign to change the “collect and export” paradigm to not just divert, but to convert materials into manufacturing jobs throughout California. Click Here
Imagining the Future of Transportation
An Interview with Joan Ogden
In California, the transportation sector is the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions. Joan Ogden, who heads the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways (STEPS ) Program at UC Davis, talks about the research her team is doing to evaluate the options for sustainable transportation, and the book they have just published for policy makers. Click Here
The EV Revolution Has Begun:
An Interview with Travis Bradford
Greentech Media, a spin-off of the Prometheus Institute for Social Development, has released a seminal report, co-authored by the Institute’s founder and president, Travis Bradford, and Swiss cleantech analyst Dominic Hofstetter, Electric Vehicles 2011: Technology, Economics, and Market. Green Technology Magazine interviewed Bradford about his certainty, based on analysis of market trends and other economic indicators, that the EV Revolution is here. Click Here
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