Tag: Bill Clinton

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  Obama Announces $4 Billion Initiative to Upgrade Energy Efficiency of Nation's Buildings

  Bill Clinton joins the president in launching a new private-public initiative that will create tens of thousands of jobs and drastically lower energy costs.

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  What Caused The Real Estate Meltdown? The Collapse Of The Suburban Fringe

  Christopher Leinberger makes the case that demographics caused the meltdown; nobody wants to live in the 'burbs anymore

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  If US Followed Germany's Lead on Solar, We'd Create 2.5 MIllion Jobs: Bill Clinton on the Daily Show (Video)

  The former president chats with Jon Stewart about how we can create millions of green jobs with smart, simple policies.

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  Barack Obama: Dealing With Climate Change is "Not Impossible"

  "It is technically difficult to figure out how we're going to deal with climate change," President Barack Obama said in a keynote address at this year's Clinton Global Initiative. "Not

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  Bill Clinton: GOP Climate Denial Makes U.S. "Look Like a Joke"

  In the opening session of 2011's Clinton Global Initiative, Bill Clinton sat down with world leaders to discuss climate change. Clinton had some nice words about how we need to do a

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  Bill Clinton: Fight Against Climate Change "Must Capture the Imagination of Ordinary People"

  In order for climate solutions to work, president Bill Clinton says it's imperative they capture "the imaginations of ordinary people."

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  Bill Clinton Drops Meat, Dairy, and 24 Pounds

  Former President Bill Clinton, reputed for his legendary consumption of snack foods, has made a surprise move. In an effort to drop weight before his daughter Chelsea's (vegan) wedding, the father of the bride gave up

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  Can Capitalism be Harnessed to Save the World?

  The Clinton Global Initiative is a fascinating, often-perplexing, headline-dominating event. The driving idea is that it creates a forum to encourage businesses to partner with governments and nonprofits to do various good works around

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  The 7 Best Green Initiatives From Bill Clinton's 2010 Summit

  The Clinton Global Initiative is a gathering of heads of state, businesses, activists, celebrities, and nonprofits from around the world that's designed to foster progress through "commitments" -- binding vows to back projects

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  Why Can't Clean Energy Be More Like Cell Phones? (Video)

  Or, Why Government and Business Are Locked in a Climate Showdown At a special session focused on energy and the environment at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, billionaire investor and clean energy entrepreneur Richard Branson joined Christiana

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  "Natural Disasters Will Accelerate" With Climate Change: Bill Clinton

  The 2010 Clinton Global Initiative is in full swing, with business, heads of state, and nonprofit groups joining forces to forge philanthropic programs of every stripe. Last year's event, which I covered

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  The Clinton Global Initiative 2009: The Week's Green Highlights

  Once every year, the Clinton Global Initiative gathers world leaders, CEOs, celebrities, nonprofit groups, and, yes, journalists in Manhattan to address the world's most pressing problems. I reported on the events all week, and there

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  Ecuador Says Show Me the Money, Or the Rainforest Gets It

  And not just amy amount of money will do, Ecuador has determined that it will cost $360 million USD a year to protect their rainforest, which just happens to sit on 900 million barrels of oil. Fortunately, Ecuador had a

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  Clinton, Obama, and Rudd Talk Climate Action, Global "Spirit of Partnership"

  Clinton Global Initiative 2009 The Clinton Global Initiative kicked off today with some words from Bill Clinton, a discussion from a panel of luminaries including Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia and the CEOs of Coca Cola and WalMart, and a

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  TreeHugger Talks Climate with Bill Clinton

  Bill Clinton has become one of the most influential, ardent supporters of climate action of our time--and within five minutes of his walking into the small conference room at the Sheraton New York, it was

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  Stanley Greenberg, World-Renowned Pollster, Talks Enviro-Politico Shop

  Never heard of Stanley Greenberg? Probably means you've been living under a rock for the last, say, twenty years. He's a political mastermind — akin to being described as the world-champion of public opinion

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  Biofuels Produced at the Expense of Tropical Forests Are No Victory: Bill Clinton Tells Brazil

  I guess when you're a former US president with a well-respected eponymous humanitarian foundation you can really lay into a touchy subject without much mincing of

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  Clinton Foundation & USGBC Unveil "Climate Positive" Cities Initiative

  The Clinton Climate Initiative, which works with 40 of the world's biggest cities to reduce greenhouse emissions, is expanding. The Initiative announced last month that it would support some 16 large-scale, carbon-neutral urban developments, scattered