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New from PPI | September 17, 2009
Building a Clean Economy on an Old Tobacco Plant
By Mike Signer
It’s hard to imagine many new uses for a shuttered tobacco factory. Thirty-foot tall cranes designed for moving bales, a paper factory, heavy equipment including backhoes, fork-lifts and tractors, and old cement floors stained by tobacco juice made sense for tobacco. But the odds that this plant, situated on 140 acres of land and given up by tobacco company Brown and Williamson in 2006 after its merger with R.J. Reynolds, would find a second life seemed pretty low.
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New from PPI | July 15, 2009
PPI Policy Paper: "The Sun Won't Set on Solar"
The Hill recently ran a shortened version of this paper as an op-ed;
here is the full policy paper, by Los Angeles-based energy and environment writer Chris Warren.
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Opinion | February 3, 2008
Our Next President Must Embrace Clean Technology
By Will Marshall and Jan Mazurek
Progressive candidates ought to reject the gloomy narrative of populist politicians and cable-TV demagogues who claim trade and outsourcing are destroying the American middle class, and instead focus on how American employers and workers can win in global markets. One place to look for inspiration is Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are busy launching a clean-technology revolution.
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Policy Report | November 8, 2007
Cleantech
By Steve Westly and Jan Mazurek
PPI urges policy makers to make the United States a leader in the development of products and processes to produce clean, climate-friendly energy.
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Backgrounder | December 1, 2004
How America Lost Its Clean Technology Edge
By Shamarukh Mohiuddin
The Bush administration's backward-looking energy and environmental policies have left the United States ill-equipped to compete with other nations in the booming global market for environmentally clean technologies.
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Policy Report | December 1, 2004
How New Environmental Technologies Can Stimulate Economic Growth
By David Rejeski
America's once-pioneering laws and policies made us an early leader in environmental technologies, but we are falling behind other countries that have enacted less prescriptive, more modern environmental policies that help drive continued technological innovation.
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Model Initiatives | May 14, 2004
A Blueprint for Greener Buildings
"Green building" movement to construct offices and homes that use less energy, less water, and more environmentally-friendly materials.
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Model Initiatives | May 14, 2004
Making Green Waves
Using public pension funds to prod companies to
acknowledge the costs of climate change and to invest in cleaner technology.
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Model Initiatives | September 5, 2003
Farming Wind
Using state programs to illustrate the combined potential for clean energy and economic development.
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Model Initiatives | September 5, 2003
State Greenhouse Gas Registries
Reporting greenhouse gas emissions as a way to promote reductions.
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