WHAT: IDEA FORUM: A National Institutes of Energy
WHEN: Thursday, September 17, 2009
WHERE: SD-G-11, Dirksen Senate Office Building
DETAILS: Third Way, The Breakthrough Institute and US Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) hosted a forum on how to jumpstart a clean energy revolution in the United States by increasing research and development and creating of a National Institutes of Energy (akin to the NIH) to spur innovative clean energy technologies.
LISTEN: Click here to download a free iTunes podcast of the event.
ABOUT THE BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE: The Breakthrough Institute is one of America’s leading think tanks developing climate and energy policy solutions. Since 2002 Breakthrough has been a pioneering advocate of an innovation-centered approach to the nation’s energy and climate challenges, calling for major federal investments to make clean and low-carbon energy technologies cheap and abundant, strengthen America’s economic competitiveness and energy security, and slow global warming.