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Green for green Green initiatives unveiled at Clinton Global Initiative gathering	Kate Sheppard	25 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The purpose of the Clinton Global Initiative is to bring together some of the folks working on specific global challenges, people who can support their good ideas, and those who would benefit from the solutions. These people get together, discuss, collaborate, and in some cases announce major initiatives that have come out of these partnerships. With 'Energy & Climate' as one of the four focuses of this year's gathering, there have been a number of public and pri ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate change, Muckraker, news, politics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

I'm just a Bill Former President Clinton talks about the financial crisis and clean energy on 'The Daily Show'	Kate Sheppard	24 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Former President Bill Clinton was on The Daily Show last night talking about his Clinton Global Initiative, the financial crisis, and alternative energy -- and how the nation's financial situation might have played out differently if we'd dealt intelligently with energy issues years ago. Here's the video:
Topics: Bill Clinton, energy, funnies, Muckraker, politics, video (all these topics)

Laws and effect Bill Clinton says smart energy policy could have avoided the financial meltdown	David Roberts	24 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Henry Farrell has an interesting account of a discussion session Bill Clinton held with a group of bloggers. This jumped out: Clinton's basic argument was that the [financial] crisis was one of an overleveraged Wall Street system which emphasized the volume of transactions, and in which people were rewarded for chasing risky deals, and in which there were too few good investment opportunities. Money ended up being funneled into real estate that shouldn't have been. ...
Topics: energy, Wall Street, blogosphere, Bill Clinton, renewable energy (all these topics)

Over the shark and way past the fridge Clinton Global Initiative jumps the shark, invites McCain to keynote on energy solutions	Joseph Romm	17 Sep 2008	Gristmill
I understand that CGI will also have Senator Inhofe keynote on climate science, Karl Rove on ethics, and President Bush on openness in government. Seriously -- or ridiculously, take your pick -- the CGI has announced: Senator John McCain will deliver the opening remarks live at the 'Integrated Solutions: water, food and energy' plenary session. Would this be the John McCain who voted with Inhofe (R-Big Oil) and against clean energy and clean water a staggering 42 ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, John McCain, presidential race 08, elections, politics, energy (all these topics)

Veep Impact Joe Biden and Bill Clinton say Obama's the man to solve the energy crisis		27 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 10:07 PM on 27 Aug 2008 In his convention speech on Wednesday night, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said an Obama administration will make "alternative energy a national priority ... creating 5 million new jobs, and finally breaking us from the grip of foreign oil." Biden accused John McCain of being wrong on everything "from Amtrak to veterans," and said, " ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, elections, energy, Joe Biden, politics (all these topics)

DNC: The other Clinton speaks Bill Clinton puts his support behind Obama, says he's ready to take on the nation's challenges	Kate Sheppard	27 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Bill Clinton took the stage this evening to thunderous applause and chants of 'Bill, Bill, Bill.' 'I'm here, first, to support Barack Obama,' he began. 'And I'm here to warm up the crowd for Joe Biden.' He then touched on the tough battle between his wife, Hillary Clinton, and Obama: 'That campaign created so much heat, it increased global warming.' But he then moved to a more conciliatory tone. 'Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States,' he sai ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, elections, Muckraker, politics, video (all these topics)

DNC: Clinton warming	David Roberts	27 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Bill Clinton on the primary: 'That campaign created so much heat, it increased global warming.' UPDATE: Clinton knocked it out of the park -- his speech was just as good, in its way, as Hillary's. Full-throated support for Obama, his characteristic historical context-setting, and as a bonus, several mentions of global warming as one of the signal international challenges facing the next president.
Topics: Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, elections, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

National Clean Energy Summit: Clinton miscellanea	David Roberts	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
A few more bits from Clinton's Q&A were of interest. First, he was asked how he would respond to ordinary people's pocketbook concerns on energy, and that's when he really shined. (Responding to average folk was always Clinton's strength.) He said that of course some of these reforms will raise the unit cost of energy -- any time you invest in a new area you raise the cost of doing things the old way. The question is whether the benefits outweigh the costs. And s ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, energy, events, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

National Clean Energy Summit: Wonk-in-chief Bill Clinton gets into the weeds of energy policy	David Roberts	19 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Photo: Brent Danley On Monday, Bill Clinton gave the opening remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit, speaking for almost an hour and taking questions for another 30 minutes. The energy issue is hot politics these days, but those hoping to witness some of the '90s-vintage Clinton political jujitsu left disappointed. Instead they were treated to -- or, depending on their tolerance for wonkery, forced to endure -- an extended disquisition on the finer poi ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, energy, politics (all these topics)

Good gone wild 700 college students and the Clinton Global Initiative in New Orleans for spring break	Nathan Wyeth	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Commitments to start social-change initiatives and spirited discussions of global issues -- these aren't typical results of 700 college students heading to New Orleans during spring break season. But last weekend, students from a diverse group of colleges, several dozen university presidents, and prominent social change agents -- not to mention Bill Clinton -- spent a day and a half on Tulane University's campus for Clinton Global Initiative University (with a cameo ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, campus activism, climate, health, Louisiana (all these topics)

It's alive!	David Roberts	04 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A Philadelphia newspaper picks up Jake "Hack" Tapper's Bill Clinton grotesque and makes it even more stupid. This is officially a 'Winger Zombie. Aim for the head. (Via Horse's Mouth)
Topics: Bill Clinton, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Tapper: still a hack; Clinton: still smart	David Roberts	01 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Andy Revkin has a Dot Earth post today that reflects on Jake Tapper's hackery and, in my humble opinion, lets Tapper off way too easily. Look at this: For his part, Mr. Tapper posted a series of updates through Thursday clarifying his intent, saying he found Mr. Clinton's speech confusing and was posing questions more than offering criticisms. And his main point, he told me over the phone late last night, was to examine whether Mr. Clinton was portraying efforts ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Bill Clinton goes nuclear Former prez helped a rich guy get uranium-mining rights in Kazakhstan	Tom Philpott	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
From Wednesday's New York Times: Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them. Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra wa ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, energy, Kazakhstan, mining, nuclear power (all these topics)

Jake Tapper is a hack Campaign reporter misrepresents Clinton, responds to correction with pissy snark	David Roberts	31 Jan 2008	Gristmill
So Jake Tapper -- the very model of the modern gossip-obsessed campaign reporter -- goes to see a Bill Clinton speech and returns to write a blog post: "Bill: 'We Just Have to Slow Down Our Economy' to Fight Global Warming." Ha! Finally the dirty liberals admit it! They want to destroy the economy! The post ended up on Drudge, from whence it made the usual rounds of the dingbatosphere. Only Tapper was full of shit. As the Clinton campaign rushed to point ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, economy (all these topics)

Efficiency U. Colleges and universities team up with Clinton Global Initiative to green their campuses	David Roberts	07 Nov 2007	Gristmill
This morning, at the US Green Building Council's Greenbuild International Conference, hosted by Greenbuild 365, Bill Clinton made a significant announcement: Signatories to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment -- of which there are 427 at last count -- will join the purchasing pool for energy efficient products and services that was established by the Clinton Global Initiative (originally involving the C40 cities, but expanded this week ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, education, green building (all these topics)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Clinton II Working with cities to create markets for green products	David Roberts	04 Nov 2007	Gristmill
My first impression of Clinton was that he'd just woken up, or that he was under the weather. He had a little bedhead, his voice was a bit croaky, and he was speaking slowly. This definitely wasn't the virtuoso Clinton of the 1998 SOTU. The fireworks were mostly muted, though there were a few flashes here and there. Still, on his worst day Clinton is never less than engrossing. (photo: U.S. Mayors Conference) He began by laying out the main three challenges of the ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, energy (all these topics)

U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Clinton I Clinton and Gore, fox and hedgehog	David Roberts	02 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton gave the keynote address at the conference. That means I got to see Gore and Clinton within a few hours of one another, and wow, what an interesting contrast. Isaiah Berlin famously divided thinkers into two categories, hedgehogs and foxes. The fox knows many things; the hedgehog knows a lot about one thing. Bill Clinton is perhaps the foxiest fox of our time, and Gore perhaps the hedgehoggiest hedgehog. Gore takes one thing -- climate change -- and meth ...
Topics: Al Gore, Bill Clinton (all these topics)

Bill Clinton explains utility decoupling Regulatory reform of utilities could lessen the need for new power plants	Joseph Romm	04 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Last week, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced that eight utilities 'are committed to seeking regulatory reforms and approvals to increase their investment in energy efficiency by $500 million annually to about $1.5 billion annually.' The utilities -- Con Edison, Duke Energy, Edison International, Great Plains Energy, Pepco Holdings, PNM Resources, Sierra Pacific Resources, and Xcel Energy -- represent nearly 20 million customers. The extra efficiency ef ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, climate, energy, Bill Clinton (all these topics)

Working with cities to build markets Clinton's 21st century climate philanthropy	David Roberts	02 Oct 2007	Gristmill
I heartily recommend this month's Atlantic Monthly cover story, "It's Not Charity" (via Yglesias). It's mostly about Bill Clinton's post-presidency adventures and the new model of philanthropy he's trying to develop. Embedded within is a description of a fascinating climate program he's been developing with Ira Magaziner. An excerpt: The climate initiative, in typical Magaziner style, has many moving parts, including technical assistance to cities, network ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, business, climate, politics (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton chats with the press Bill Clinton wanted a carbon market back in the day, and he still does	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton just gave a short speech and took a few questions from reporters. Some highlights: When they were in office, Bill Clinton and Al Gore wanted to create a global carbon market. At the time, Europe thought the idea undesirable and unfeasible and didn't offer any support. The effort failed. Now, years down the line, the world is a different place and the idea has much more purchase. Clinton, when asked for his thoughts on this, managed to turn all of his ...
Topics: climate, politics, international politics, Bill Clinton, climate change mitigation, carbon tax, carbon trading (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Clinton on efficiency Bill Clinton calls for countries to follow Japan's lead	Brian Beutler	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Bill Clinton introduced the morning plenary today by, once again, honoring the companies and people who've committed to the Clinton Global Initiative to take steps to increase energy efficiency and decrease greenhouse-gas emissions. But he touted one dubious statistic: If China, India, and the United States were to become as efficient as Japan, that would decrease global greenhouse-gas output by 20 percent. That statistic is based on this study by the McKinsey Inst ...
Topics: politics, Bill Clinton, climate, international politics, Japan, China, India, United States (all these topics)

Clinton Global Initiative: Bill and Al, reunited at least Bill Clinton kicks off annual meeting with big names and big aims	Brian Beutler	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
I'm not sure when Al Gore and Bill Clinton were last in the same room together, let alone on a stage together, but they reunited publicly today at the start of the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting. (And, to focus on the superficial for a moment, their handshake -- clumsy and brief, an afterthought really -- didn't look at all like the sort of handshake you might expect a former U.S. president and his erstwhile second-in-command to share.) Clinton introduced ...
Topics: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Clinton foundation energy efficiency plan: An offset by any other name ... New financial instruments may one day plug cities' building codes into global carbon market	Adam Stein	17 May 2007	Gristmill
The William J. Clinton foundation has arranged billions in financing to help a coalition of sixteen cities cut urban emissions by applying a range of energy efficiency measures to aging buildings. Efficiency measures tends to get lumped in under the heading of conservation, but they really deserve to be their own full-fledged category of solutions to global warming. If conservation is simply doing less of a polluting activity, efficiency is doing the same activity with ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, carbon offsets, energy, energy efficiency, green building, placemaking (all these topics)

Bloomberg and the C40 Summit Bigtime mayors and Bill Clinton meet about climate change	David Roberts	14 May 2007	Gristmill
This C40 summit looks like a doozy. You could do worse than having Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg as your keynote speakers. If any Grist readers happen to be attending, get in touch. I'd love to hear how it goes. Speaking of Bloomberg, Worldchanging NYC has a whole series of posts on PlaNYC, Bloomberg's plan to green the Big Apple, if you want to really sink your teeth into it.
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, environmental movement (all these topics)

Bush vs. Clinton on climate change Bush is working with a much stronger consensus	Andrew Dessler	19 Apr 2007	Gristmill
One argument in defense of George W. Bush's lack of action on climate change is some variation of this: 'Bill Clinton wasn't any better ... he never sent the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate.' This is true. But it also ignores one important fact. The science of climate change has improved dramatically since the mid-'90s. In its 1995 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) summarized our knowledge about climate change by saying ... ... the balance o ...
Topics: Bill Clinton, climate, climate change mitigation, George Bush, IPCC, politics (all these topics)

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