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Green Book Award, 2008
“Prescient” –Time
“Could be the most important thing to happen to environ- mentalism since Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring.'” –Wired
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Obama: STEM Education Critical to Compete with Asia
Improving America's performance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education will be central to maintaining the nation's economic edge and competing with foreign challengers, particularly in Asia, President Obama emphasized today in a speech on the "Education to Innovation" campaign launched by the administration. In today's global clean energy race, the United States needs a national clean-tech education strategy on par with the National Defense Education Act of 1958 that proved critical to winning the Cold War, spurring the IT revolution, and laying the foundation for decades of American prosperity. Will the Administration and Congress work together to implement in new competitive energy education strategy in 2010?
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Environment after nature:
Time for a new vision
Environmentalism clings to a limited vision of environment-as-biophysical nature. Breakthrough Senior Fellow Jim Proctor traces the origin of this vision in progressive understandings of environment over time, and notes resonances with our understandings of science and religion. In both cases, an assumed binary of nature and culture is at the heart of the problem. Among other scholars, Breakthrough Senior Fellow Bruno Latour has diagnosed the roots of this problem in modernity, and pointed to hybrid approaches that stress connection. The recent "death of environmentalism" debate, initiated by Breakthrough's Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger suggests both the need and the challenge in defining this new vision of environment.
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"Invest in New American Energy: Pathway to a Clean and Prosperous American Energy Economy" (PDF) - clean energy policy recommendations brief
"Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant: Asian Nations Set to Dominate Clean Energy Race By Out-Investing the United States" (Full report, PDF), (Summary version, PDF)
"Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution with a National Institutes of Energy" (PDF) - Breakthrough Institute and Third Way policy report on clean energy R&D
National Energy Education Act Proposal (PDF)
"Scrap Kyoto," Democracy Journal (PDF)
Global Warming Policy in a Nutshell (PDF)
"Fast, Clean, & Cheap," Harvard Law and Policy Review (PDF)
"Introduction" to Break Through (PDF)
Focus Groups on New Social Contract (PDF)
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