A Green Recovery: Tom Friedman, Carol Browner & Gov Ed ...

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/pdf/green_recovery.pdf

Introduction by:
Joseph Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Featured Speakers:
Governor Ed Rendell (D - PA)
Thomas Friedman, columnist, New York Times; author, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
Carol Browner, Principal, The Albright Group LLC

Moderated by:
Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

At a time of fiscal belt tightening, when some would put environmental priorities on the back burner, there are many who believe that investing in a green economy now is the best way to achieve both short and long term economic solutions. A recent paper by the Center for American Progress and the University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute, "Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low Carbon Economy," finds that to promote economic mobility, growth, job creation, and regain technological leadership in the global innovation marketplace, we must fundamentally change how we produce and consume energy in this country and transform our economy to a low-carbon model. Investing in clean energy and efficiency will enable the United States to regain technological leadership in the global innovation marketplace, grow our economy, reduce global warming emissions, and invest in national security.

Please join the Center for American Progress and three of the country's leading advocates for investments in a green economy for a discussion on how each step of an economic recovery package (stabilization, stimulus, recovery, and growth) can be greened, and explore both national and state perspectives on policy solutions towards transforming our economy to a low-carbon model.

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[garyowen4ever]

a money scam for underpaid underworked underskilled earth scientists looking to globetrot on the tax DOLE.

[go4abreak]

socialist jumping on this important issue to get more to join the socialist push! Watch out america....socialism has happened. The dems pushed the bailout, now the banks have "no idea" what they did with the money AND they want more....And the government is in control. US Car companies may need the money but you can bet it's going to go to keeping those stincking unions, which drives the prices of american cars through the roof.

[Grepple1234]

God...Carol Browner is one hot sexy bitch!!

[TheHabit00]

JEWS IN CHARGE

[TheHabit00]

@garyowen4ever I will shoot socialist and get away with it! i'm defending my country!

[plstkr07]

Someday these idiots will need to get real jobs. They are stuck with the lies because it's the way they get paid. What a joke!

[PiL182]

HAHA this guy says that the southwest will turn into a desert by the end of the century.... TOO FUNNY....the entire southwest IS a desert already!!! I should know I live there.

[baldrad]

...and that goes for Friedman, too...just slings his pompous BS for a living. The guy is really full of himself.

[baldrad]

...none of these people from the Center for American Progress (hilarious) has ever had a job. They've never run anything as serious as a sno-cone stand, they've never had to make a payroll, never had to do anything other than take a paycheck from bureaucracy or a foundation .

[salinagrrrl69]

They are going to force unions like chicago gangster city machine politica.

EVIL! Stand UP and FIGHT THESE THINK TANK SOCIALIST BASTARDS~!

[jcanivan]

right on