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Corporate Partnership for Green Research and Lobbying
Google and General Electric are collaborating on technology and policy initiatives to promote the development of additional capacity in the electricity grid and of “smart grid” technologies, cleaner power generation and greener transportation. They will begin by working on enhanced geothermal and plug-in vehicles, specifically electric vehicle-enabling technologies. They will also lobby Washington to encourage investment and innovation in renewable energy sources.
GE CEO Immelt said “There’s fundamentally two things that have to be done, and both of which we’re working with Google on. One is that there’s going to have to be more capacity, and if we really want to drive renewable energy to where it could be in this country, we’re going to have to have more transmission and distribution.”
“The second thing is that there’s got to be a ’smart grid’ which allows it to operate more effectively both in the last mile, but also as you wheel power around the country. That’s fundamentally software and gadgets,” Immelt said.
Sprawling From Grace at the Democratic National Convention
“Sprawling From Grace” played at the Starz Green Room at the DNC August 23rd-25th! It was exciting to be a part of the national discourse. We met a lot of interesting and influential people from the worlds of politics, media and film. Hopefully we were able to bring some attention to the increasingly important issue of sprawl as it relates to our energy crisis.
Although we hear many politicos stumping on the need for “renewable energy, alternative energy, green energy, drilling” and what have you, we haven’t heard enough about the proper and sustainable applications of this energy. It is our hope that we communicated the pressing need for a real change in the way we look at the problem. A paradigm shift away from struggling to support the sprawling infrastructure we’ve built upon cheap oil, to a sustainable, new urban landscape based on these new forms of energy.
