Creating environmental Capital - ECO:nomics Forum S. Barbara Cal.

biz environment themes us

o Powering The Future

Shale gas US killing solar wind ?

o Green Cities: Reality or Pipe Dream?

o An Activist Responds

Sierra Club - no fossil fuels (shale oil gas)

o Solving Environmental Threats

Skoll Global Threats Fund

o Clean Tech Investing: Is It Moving to China?

o Uncovering The Next Big Thing

o Water, the Next Scarce Resource

o The Brighter Side of Solar Power

SolarCity

o What’s Growing in the ECO:nomics GreenHouse?

urban agriculture AeroFarms

o How Should America Use its Natural Gas Bonanza?

o A New “Middle East”: The U.S. as an Oil Powerhouse

Shell

March 20-22/2013 California

Selected agenda Items:

o Welcome

Alan Murray, The Wall Street Journal

o Powering The Future

Shale gas US killing solar wind ?

The abundance of cheap natural gas in the U.S. is driving out all carbon-free options—solar, wind, and nuclear. Is natural gas the right solution to the nation’s environmental problems?

David Crane, President and CEO, NRG Energy

o Green Cities: Reality or Pipe Dream?

More than half the world’s population now live in cities, posing an enormous threat to the global environment. Can cities really become sustainable?

Richard M. Daley, Executive Chairman, Tur Partners and Former Mayor, City of Chicago

William McDonough, Chairman, McDonough Advisors

o An Activist Responds

Sierra Club - no fossil fuels (shale gas)

The Sierra Club and many other hardcore environmental groups insist that fossil fuels have no part in the nation’s energy future and are working overtime to undermine the use of natural gas. Why?

Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club

o Solving Environmental Threats

Skoll Global Threats Fund

Innovators are working to answer some of the world’s most complex social challenges. How do they plan to solve catastrophic environmental issues ranging from deforestation to pandemics to clean water shortages?

Larry Brilliant, President and CEO, Skoll Global Threats Fund

o Clean Tech Investing: Is It Moving to China?

The bubble of clean tech investing in the U.S. has yielded mixed results, discouraging many venture investors. In the meantime, the Chinese are stepping up investments across the board. How does this end?

Josh Green, General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Alan E. Salzman, CEO and Managing Partner, VantagePoint Capital Partners

o Uncovering The Next Big Thing

We’ll hear elevator pitches from several of the companies who made the top 10 in The Wall Street Journal’s rankings of The Next Big Thing in Clean Tech. All ECO:nomics participants then vote on which is most worthy of investment.

o The Brighter Side of Solar Power

SolarCity

Despite highly publicized stories of the Chinese takeover of the solar panel business, and high profile collapses like that of Solyndra, solar power usage in the U.S. is growing, and producing profits for many companies.

Lyndon Rive, CEO, SolarCity

o Water, the Next Scarce Resource

We have grown accustomed to turning on the tap and seeing clean water come out. But that may become more difficult to achieve in civilized locations in the coming years.

Gretchen W. McClain, President and CEO, Xylem

o What’s Growing in the ECO:nomics GreenHouse?

urban agriculture AeroFarms

Last year’s winner of the ECO:nomics vote for the most cutting-edge, eco-friendly company talks about what has happened since, and the pluses and minuses of urban agriculture.

David G. Rosenberg, CEO, AeroFarms

o How Should America Use its Natural Gas Bonanza?

Growing domestic natural gas supplies could lower costs and provide the foundation for a manufacturing renaissance among industries that consume large amounts of energy. But others favor exporting natural gas abroad as well as using it at home.

Thomas F. Farrell II, Chairman, President and CEO, Dominion Resources

o A New “Middle East”: The U.S. as an Oil Powerhouse

Shell

Growing oil production has led to predictions that the U.S. could pump more barrels than Saudi Arabia by 2020 and that North American could become a net exporter at a later date. What does this mean for energy markets and geopolitics? Will it boost the U.S. economy in a world where oil prices remain high and production constrained?

Marvin E. Odum, President, Shell Oil Company and Director, Upstream Americas, Royal Dutch Shell

Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS

source: economics.wsj.com/program