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Bill Gates and the Quest for Sustainable Energy

Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

“We need an energy miracle,” says Bill Gates in this interview with Atlantic editor in chief James Bennet. “That may make it seem too daunting to people, but miracles in science are happening all the time.” So, what are the solutions to climate change? Gates has pledged to invest $2 billion in new alternative energy technologies. In this discussion with Bennet, he extolls the necessity of investment in vast and varied technologies to change such a massive infrastructure quickly. Read more about Gates’s commitment to moving the world beyond fossil fuels in the November 2015 issue of The Atlantic.

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Economic Expansion, Energy Independence and Environmental Efficiency: Renewables in the South

Thursday, September 15th, 2011
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SOUTHERN LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE

As states emerge from the Great Recession the deepest broadest and sharpest economic downturn experienced in the United States since the Great Depression state policymakers confront an unenviable set of obstacles. Beyond the multiplicity of short-term challenges associated with balancing their states’ budgets as a result of the steep drop in revenues, policymakers also are struggling with a more structural weakness in our economy: the rapidly eroding manufacturing sector in the United States.

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