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From the Panel
For: Bill Ritter
- Re-energize the Economy
Bill Ritter, Huffington Post, February 26, 2011 - Natural Gas and America’s Clean Energy Future
Bill Ritter, Huffington Post, February 16, 2011 - Interview with Governor Bill Ritter
energyNOW!, Clean Skies Network, January 9, 2011 - Gov. Ritter Announces New $13 Million Business Loan Programs
Office of Gov. Bill Ritter Jr., November 30, 2010 - Colorado’s New Energy Economy
Bill Ritter, Jr., Forbes, May 27, 2010 - Gov. Bill Ritter: Advancing Colorado’s New Energy Economy
Gov. Bill Ritter, Jr., Denver Post, March 11, 2010 - The Code of the West
Ryan Lizza, New Yorker, September 1, 2008 For: Kassia Yanosek
- White Papers
U.S. Partnership for Renewable Energy Finance
Against: Robert Bryce
- Power Hungry: The Myths of 'Green' Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
Book Forum, American Enterprise Institute, March 13, 2010 - Power Natural Gas
Economist, January 25, 2011 Against: Steven Hayward
- Tech Will Solve the Climate Crisis Faster than Laws
Steven Hayward, Mother Jones, November 17, 2010 - Articles by Steven Hayward
American Enterprise Institute - Post-Partisan Power: How a Limited and Direct Approach to Energy Innovation Can Deliver Clean, Cheap Energy, Economic Productivity and American Prosperity
Steven F. Hayward, AEI; Mark Muro, Brookings Institution; Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Breakthrough Institute, October, 2010
Articles For & Against
For the Motion
- Grow Green Jobs
Nancy Folbre, New York Times, July 12, 2010 - Can the Green Economy Survive in a Policy Vacuum?
Heather King, Scientific American, March 30, 2010 - Rethinking the Economic Recovery: A Global Green New Deal
Edward B. Barbier, University of Wyoming, April, 2009 - Cutting the Cost of Clean Energy 1.0
Bracken Hendricks, Lisbeth Kaufman, Center for American Progress; Ken Berlin, Monty Humble, Reed Hundt, Alex Kragie, Gerry Waldron, Coalition for Green Capital November, 2010 - The Economic Benefits of Investing in Clean Energy
Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, University of Massachusetts; Bracken Hendricks, Michael Ettlinger, Center for American Progress, June 18, 2009
Against the Motion
- The Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Experience
Kenneth P. Green, AEI, February, 2011 - Green Smoke Screen
Bjørn Lomborg, Slate, February 13, 2011 - Why Green Energy Can’t Power a Job Engine
Edward L. Glaeser, New York Times, January 18, 2011 - Green Jobs Aren’t Renewable Energy’s Value Proposition
Geoffrey Styles, Energy Outlook, October 29, 2010 - Renewable Energy Cannot Drive the Recovery
Samuel Sherraden, New America Foundation, July 28, 2010 - Green Jobs: Environmental Red Tape Cancels Out Job Creation
Ben Lieberman, The Heritage Foundation, February 4, 2010 - Green Jobs Myths
Andrew P. Morriss, William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak, Roger E. Meiners, University of Illinois College of Law, March 12, 2009
