Clean Energy Week 2010 Showcased Urgent Need for Clean Energy Jobs, Energy Efficiency and Climate Solutions

More than 100 organizations nationwide joined together to maximize efforts to move clean energy to the forefront of national policy. Officially declaring February 1-5, 2010 as Clean Energy Week, a growing list of partners worked together to produce a high-impact week of powerful and effective activities and events. 

Clean Energy Week was a week of action on the part of NGOs, non-profits, associations, private corporations, and government agencies that consisted of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, receptions, workshops, press conferences, rallies and outreach activities on Capitol Hill and across Washington, DC.

The week was focused on the national imperative to enact comprehensive clean energy policy - including climate solutions, renewable energy and energy efficiency programs - as a means of creating vast numbers of new jobs, ensuring U.S. global leadership in the emerging clean energy era, enhancing our security and preserving our planet for the generations to follow. 

Highlights

  • Press conference with 75 people present and over 200 online viewers
  • Clean Economy Network evening reception with Arun Majumdar, Director of the Advanced Research Projects
    Agency - Energy, Department of Energy
  • Alliance to Save Energy / Association of Climate Change Officers evening reception featuring remarks from Cathy Zoi DOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Congressman Peter Welch
  • Capital Hill breakfast reception with Congressman Jay Inslee, Reed Hundt and Jeff Anderson
  • CEW partners meeting with Senator Maria Cantwell and staff discussing Cap and Dividend CLEAR bill
  • Over 200 CEOs flew in to meet with Senators (coordinated by Clean Economy Network and Clean Energy Works)
  • Webinars conducted by World Team Now, the American Council on Renewable Energy and the Association of Climate Change Officers
  • National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) national meeting took place including White House meeting
  • RETECH took place at the end of the week with over 2,800 attendees and 225 nationally recognized speakers plus speeches by Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, Under Secretary Kristina Johnson, and Presidential Advisor Carol Browner among other great leaders
  • Cities of Aspen and Denver, Colorado officially declared Feb. 1-5, 2010 as Clean Energy Week

Choosing Green TV recorded over eight hours of panels, interviews and various CEW activities. A "Best of CEW" is being produced and will be placed on www.choosinggreen.com -- the site now hosts the full CEW press conference. The videos will also be available on www.cleanenergyweek.org.

Clean Energy Week 2011 has been tentatively set for February 28 - March 4, 2011.

 

Clean Energy Week 2010.