Under the state’s Public Contract Code, state government is mandated to purchase products and services that achieve a degree of sustainability whenever possible. While there is no such mandate for municipalities or local governments, many are creating their own environmentally preferred purchasing ordinances or rules, even hiring sustainability managers to oversee the process. Click here.

Next 10 is a leading researcher regarding the prospects for California’s green economy. Next 10 founder F. Noel Perry discusses new studies from the group that focus on green jobs, the impact of reducing carbon emissions on the economy and job growth and how the failure to develop renewable infrastructure could threaten California’s economic security. Click here.

A year ago, Professor David Roland-Holst of UC Berkeley, author of four Next 10 reports, discussed workforce creation, federal stimulus money and governmental policymaking with Green Technology magazine. Here is an update of that conversation. Click here.