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California's Green Economy with State Treasurer Bill Lockyer
Thursday, September 18
5:30–8:00 PM
Please join us for a panel, reception and executive roundtable discussion about California's Green Economy. This Forum will provide an investment outlook, explore emerging policies and the economic growth opportunities that are impacting California industries including cleantech, smart transport, green building and sustainable development.
Featured Speakers:
Bill Lockyer
—California State Treasure
Joel Makower
—Executive Editor, GreenBiz.com
Location: Hanson Bridgett
Conference Facilities
425 Market Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
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CEO Roundtable: Business Sustainability for Sustainable Businesses
Hanson Bridgett is hosting the Alliance of CEOs Roundtable discussion for CEOs who run businesses whose product or service helps our world to be greener. CEOs will come together to discuss the special challenges of making those businesses thrive. This will be a discussion about how to run these unique businesses. The event will not discuss how to "green up" standard businesses, nor will it discuss whether businesses should be more green or less green. There will be no panel or presentation. Attending CEOs will bring their issues for discussion. We expect some of those issues to be:
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How to better influence and manage supply chains to adhere to sustainable practices. |
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How to identify when customers will pay extra for green products and services. |
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Challenges and opportunities with changing legislation and managing with different legislative environments in different countries. |
Attending CEOs should be running a company where a significant revenue generator is a product or service that helps our world be more sustainable, or whose unique differentiator is sustainability.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
7:45–10:30am
Hanson Bridgett
Conference Facilities
425 Market Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
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GoingGreen
GoingGreen is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth. Green technology innovators are disrupting the global energy, water, agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing, and resource-recovery establishments. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities. GoingGreen editors will also honor the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the GoingGreen 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in the 'CEO Showcase.'
September 15-17, 2008
Cavallo Point – The Lodge at the Golden Gate
601 Murray Circle
Sausalito, California 94965
Please click below to receive a 50% discount as a friend of Hanson Bridgett.
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Presidio Launches Executive Certificate Program, Announces New 2009 Dates
Presidio School of Management's inaugural Executive Certificate program kicked off July 10 with sustainable business thought leaders Hunter Lovins, Peter Warshall and Sissel Waage. Held at Hanson Bridgett's executive conference room in downtown San Francisco, 33 senior-level participants gathered to learn how to achieve real change within a variety of organizations and gain the practical skills they need to drive sustainability initiatives.
Presidio faculty member and Natural Capitalism co-author Hunter Lovins lectured the first day on the business case for sustainability. Beginning with the global drivers of change, Lovins laid out a profitable business case for climate protection, citing leading examples of Fortune 500 companies that are cutting costs and increasing revenues. She outlined the principles of natural capitalism, history of sustainability, cradle to cradle and biomimicry concepts, and the various sustainability frameworks and tools business leaders use.
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Client Focus: Samovar Tea Lounge
Samovar Tea Lounge makes the delicious and intriguing world of tea approachable and affordable, and perhaps just as important, sustainable. Samovar Tea Lounge is grounded in the values inherent to tea: community, vitality, and equanimity. Voted "Best Tea of the Bay" by San Francisco Magazine (July 2008), "top ten place for tea in America” by USA TODAY (January 2008), and featured on CNN and the New York Times, this local tea house features organic, fair trade teas and serves fresh tea around the clock: tea breakfast, brunch, lunch, high tea, and dinner. Samovar was founded five years ago and currently has locations in Yerba Buena Gardens and the Castro-Mission district of San Francisco with plans to open new locations in the near future. It also has an impressive array of teas and accessories that are available for purchase online.
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Hanson Bridgett in the News
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Partner Jonathan Storper was recently interviewed by Sustainable Industries for an article regarding new CA legislation that could have a dramatic effect on 'green' business in the state. Read New California Bill Aims To Allow Double-bottom Line. |
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Partner Scott Smith provides five tips for greening your business in North Bay Business Journal (PDF). |
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Hanson Bridgett's path to green certification took about a year and required our law firm to change the way it approaches some of its operational practices. Rachel Patterson, the firm's administrative services manager, helped guide the firm down the green road. Listen to the Podcast or read the podcast transcript. |
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Attention Association of Corporate Counsel Members: Hanson Bridgett and ACC are hosting an "Evening at the Ballpark" at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, and will be presenting "It's Not Easy Being Green: Avoiding the Legal Pitfalls of Greening Your Business." For more information, please visit the ACC website. |
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"Why oil when there's wind offshore." Green Energy News
"Forget Washington: act locally." Green Energy News
"Boone Pickens vs. the G8." Green Energy News
"California leads in customer and utility solar capacity." GreenBiz.com
"California adopts strict emissions rules for ships." GreenBiz.com
"Greening the links in the supply chain." GreenBiz.com
"Green purchasing makes slight gains." GreenBiz.com
"New report assesses climate change vulnerability." GreenBiz.com
"How your company can benefit from green social networking." GreenBiz.com
"The qualities of a sustainable leader." GreenBiz.com
"Firms see green: area buildings aim to be Earth-friendly." The Sun.com
"California gets green-hued homeowners policy." Dallasnews.com
"Virtualization and the Other Green Computing Initiative." Virtulization.sys-con.com
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CALIFORNIA (June)
6/30/08 - CHAPTERED - AB 1892, Cameron Smyth, R - SOLAR ENERGY
This bill applies the provisions regarding the unenforceability of prohibitions or restrictions relating to solar energy systems to the governing documents of a common interest development. Details»
6/30/08 - AMENDED - SB 1512, Wiggins - ENERGY
This bill would for the purpose of determining whether an agricultural customer-generator using wind or solar electric generation was a net consumer or a net producer of electricity during a 12-month period, require that the electrical corporation aggregate the electrical load of the agricultural customer-generator under the same ownership located on property adjacent or contiguous to the generation facility. The bill would further require that each aggregated account be billed and measured according to a time-of-use rate schedule. Details»
6/30/08 - Amended - SB 1438, Padilla - ELECTRICITY
This bill would require the commission, by July 1, 2010, and in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) and the Independent System Operator (ISO), to determine the requirements for a smart grid deployment plan consistent with the policies set forth in the bill and federal law. Details»
6/30/08 - Amended - AB 2432, John Laird, D - CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH
This bill would require the Energy Commission, in support of that program, to provide investment in research, development, and demonstration activities to mitigate and adapt to climate change impacts and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Details»
6/30/08 - Amended - AB 1064, Sally Lieber, D - ENERGY
This bill would extend until January 1, 2012, the self-generation incentive program for nonsolar distributed generation resources and require the PUC to limit the eligibility for incentives pursuant to the program to distributed generation resources that the PUC determines support the state's goals for the reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Details»
6/30/08 - Amended - AB 2804, Mary Hayashi, D - RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES
This bill would authorize a school district or community college district to request the extension of a reservation expiration date for monetary incentives for a solar energy system, up to a maximum of 3 extensions of 180 calendar days for each extension. Details»
FEDERAL (June)
6/30/08 - Enacted - S 2146, Thomas Carper, D-DE - DIESEL EMISSIONS
Authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to accept, as part of a settlement, diesel emission reduction Supplemental Environmental Projects. Became Public Law No: 110-255 Details»
California (July)
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7/1/08 - Amended - AB 224, Lois Wolk, D - Water Supply Planning Details» |
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7/2/08 - Amended - AB 3018, Fabian Nunez, D - Green Jobs Details» |
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7/2/08 - SB 1550, Florez - Corporations Details» |
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7/2/08 - Amended - SB 1391, Padilla - Recycled Water Details» |
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7/2/08 - Amended - SB 1672, Steinberg - Energy Details» |
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7/10/08 - Amended - AB 2180, Ted Lieu, D - Solar Energy Details» |
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7/11/08 - Chaptered - AJR 53, Jared Huffman, D - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Details» |
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7/14/08 - Amended - AB 578, Sam Blakeslee, R - Energy Details» |
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7/14/08 - Amended - SB 1754, Kehoe - Energy Details» |
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7/16/08 - Enrolled - SB 1573, Florez - Air Pollution Details» |
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7/16/08 - Enrolled - AB 2730, Mark Leno, D - Recycling Details» |
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7/16/08 - Chaptered - AB 2404, Mary Salas, D - Energy (PDF) Details» |
Federal (July)
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7/4/08 - Introduced - S 3224, Bernard Sanders, I-VT - Rebates Details» |
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7/8/08 - Introduced - HR 6441, Ron Paul, R-TX - Tax Credit Details» |
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7/8/08 - Introduced - S 3228, Gordon Smith, R-OR - Tax Credit Details» |
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7/10/08 - Introduced - HR 6476, Peter Roskam, R-IL - Wind Resources Details» |
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7/10/08 - Introduced - HR 6474, Zoe Lofgren, D-CA - Energy Details» |
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7/14/08 - Introduced - HR 6484, Michael Capuano, D-MA - Energy Details» |
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7/14/08 - Introduced - HR 6487, Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ - Diesel Tax Parity Details» |
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7/15/08 - Introduced - HR 6495, Earl Blumenauer, D-OR - Gas Prices Details» |
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7/15/08 - Introduced - S 3264, James Inhofe, R-OK - Economic Development Details» |
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7/16/08 - HR 6527, Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA - Solar Power Details» |
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7/17/08 - Introduced - S 3281, James Inhofe, R-OK - Renewable Fuel Details» |
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7/17/08 - Introduced - HR 6529, Ken Calvert, R-CA - Offshore Resource Exploration Details» |
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7/22/08 - Introduced - HR 6570, Rahm Emanuel, D-IL - Natural Gas Details» |
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