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2016 Business of Local Energy Symposium | March 4, 2016

Creating the Clean Energy Economy: Optimizing Community Choice The Climate Center is organizing its second all-day Business of Local Energy Symposium to accelerate California’s shift to a clean energy economy, driven by local government and business. The Symposium provides a forum to exchange ideas about Community Choice Energy programs and to learn about current energy policy, regulations, … Read more

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The Forks in the Road after the Paris Agreement

by Mike Sandler Without a doubt, the Paris Agreement is historic. It provides some much-needed relief to the UN process and the leaders of the world who suffered a major setback after the UN’s Copenhagen breakdown in 2009. It lets a term-limited President of the United States claim to have set laudably ambitious goals, and … Read more

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Peninsula Clean Energy is Born!

By Woody Hastings The race is on between San Francisco’s CleanPowerSF and Peninsula Clean Energy: Which will be first to launch an electricity program for their residents and businesses? San Francisco has a head start because they have been working on their effort for many years, and they are on schedule to launch early in … Read more

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Community Choice Takes Shape in Silicon Valley

By Barry Vesser, CCP  |  Nov. 12, 2015 [ San Jose City Councilmember Ash Kalra talks about his interest in Community Choice] Momentum is building for Community Choice Energy (CCE) in Silicon Valley. San Mateo aims to form a Joint Powers Authority (JPA), the legal framework for a multi-municipality Community Choice program, in February 2016, … Read more

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About the Big UN Climate Conference in Paris

by Mike Sandler, Co-founder of The Climate Center  |  Oct. 9, 2015 You may have been hearing about the big climate conference coming up in Paris in a few months. It is called COP-21, short for the 21st UN Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The group has … Read more

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Reflections on China’s Approach to Climate Action

by Paola Alvarado, ECO2school Program Coordinator  |  8/31/2015 One of our very own team members, Paola Alvarado, was granted the opportunity through a partnership between Volunteers in Asia and the U.S State Department of Education and Cultural Affairs to chaperone a group of 17 vibrant young students as they explored Hong Kong and Guangzhou China … Read more

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Pathway to 2050: August 20, 2015

Advanced Energy Economy: Pathway to 2050 WHEN: August 20, 2015 in Sacramento, CA The annual Sacramento event brings together an influential group of advanced energy business leaders and state policy-makers who discuss opportunities to accelerate California’s economy through the growth of advanced energy. This year’s event topics will explore the following questions: How do utility business models … Read more

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The California Independent System Operator: A High Wire Act on Solid Ground

May 20, 2015  |  by Woody Hastings Recently I visited the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) – my first visit ever. I always wondered why CAISO was located in Folsom, California. I learned that Folsom is one of the least seismically active areas in the State, yet still close to the centers of policy decision-making. … Read more

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Sonoma County Water Agency: Carbon Free by 2015

May 1, 2015 by Adrienne Tatman, SSU student and The Climate Center Intern Recently I attended a Sonoma County Water Agency’s Energy and Sustainability tour and learned how the Agency achieved carbon free water.  The Agency pumps and distributes water to more than 600,000 Sonoma and Marin customers, and also runs several sanitation plants. Before … Read more

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MarinSEL Business Leaders Breakfast – March 11, 2015

Join us for our annual Business Leaders Breakfast and hear from key local environmental leaders, MarinSEL students and teachers! The annual MarinSEL Business Leaders Breakfast will be held on March 11th, 2015 beginning at 7:00am. This event is an important fundraiser for the Marin School of Environmental Leadership at Terra Linda High School and provides an … Read more

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