DC Green Scene

Join us for the ninth annual “Transforming Transportation” event. This year’s conference will focus on big ideas to scale up sustainable transport best practices in cities worldwide. In previous years, we highlighted challenges facing urban transport and key projects that were good examples to emulate. The aim in 2012 is to reflect briefly on past successes and ongoing challenges of implementing sustainable urban transport and development, and then to turn our attention to scaling up for the future.  

In this seminar, panelists will discuss the draft leasing program and aspects such as science needs and availability, expected activity impacts, and how the program may align with other ongoing ocean management processes, such as coastal and marine spatial planning.  

Efforts to regulate the natural gas economy began with Emerson McMillin's call for public-utility regulation of (manufactured) gas distribution before the American Gas Light Association in 1890. It continues today with T. Boone Pickens's call for passage of the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions (NAT GAS) Act of 2011. What has transpired in the 120 years between these two calls for legislative action concerns all phases of the natural gas industry, from the wellhead to the burner tip.

Businesses that develop and provide solutions that enable consumers to meet their aspirations within the limits of the planet are well-positioned to succeed in the face of global megatrends. Learn what leading companies believe their role to be in sustainable consumption and how they are working through new business models and value chain innovation to promote sustainable consumption.

The full Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing to receive testimony on the U.S. and global energy outlook for 2012.      

Please join us for our monthly roundtable where we discuss topics at the intersection of business and our environment. When and Where: The Green Business Roundtable will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 31. Luncheon will be held from 11:30 AM - 1:00PM (Please arrive no later than 11:45 to get your lunch without interrupting the program). National Press Club McClendon Room (part of the Reliable Source, 14th Floor). The National Press Club is located at 529 14th St. NW in Washington (near Metro Center).

WCEE would like to invite its members to a luncheon featuring the Honorable Peter Taksoe-Jensen, the Danish Ambassador to the United States on Tuesday, January 31. The luncheon is being hosted by SNR Denton LLP.

The 42nd annual presentation of this advanced program, featuring 16 hours of instruction, particularly looks at legislative initiatives, regulatory changes, recent judicial decisions, and new precedent issued by the Obama administration.  

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee's Energy and Environment Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled "Fractured Science – Examining EPA’s Approach to Ground Water Research: The Pavillion Analysis."

This webinar will highlight opportunities for financing biomass projects from a variety of different sources such as government programs, hybrid financial mechanisms, offshore funding and the US capital markets. Topics include the status of government program funding and alternatives in lieu of Section 1603 grants; new military funding sources; the outlook for capital market investment; private equity and project structuring.