General Session Speakers
Dan Adler President, California Clean Energy Fund
Dan Adler Dan Adler is president of the California Clean Energy Fund, or CalCEF, a nonprofit ever- green fund of funds working to advance clean energy using tools from finance, public policy and technological innovation. CalCEF is currently invested in more than 40 young com panies that are innovating clean energy technologies, and the CalCEF Clean Energy Angel Fund is the industry’s first seed stage-focused fund. In 2006, CalCEF founded the nation’s first university center on energy efficiency, the Energy Efficiency Center at the University of California at Davis. CalCEF Innovations explores the ways public policy and market intelligence can support the development and marketing of green energy prod- ucts. Before joining CalCEF, Dan was a senior analyst in the Division of Strategic Planning at the California Public Utilities Commission, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard and was senior staff for climate change policy. He is also a director of the American Council on Renewable Energy and an advisor to the state of California and the City of San Francisco on clean energy technologies.
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Jared Blumenfeld Administrator, Pacific and Southwest Region U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Jared Blumenfeld Jared Blumenfeld was appointed by President Barack Obama and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to serve as the Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. The region is home to more than 48 million people in Cali- fornia, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands and 147 tribal nations. His priorities at EPA include: enforcement; environmental justice; protecting and restoring air, land and waters; building strong federal, state, local and tribal partnerships and taking ac- tion on climate change. Some of his accomplishments at EPA since his appointment in 2009 include designating the Los Angeles River as “protected” under the Clean Water Act, proposing to ban discharge of sewage from cargo vessels and cruise ships, thus protecting 5,000 square miles of California’s coastal waters, and building partnerships in sustainable endeavors to support the economy. Before becoming Regional Adminis- trator, Mr. Blumenfeld was the Director of the San Francisco Department of the Environ- ment, where he spent eight years as the primary environmental decision-maker for the city. In his current position, he oversees a team of more than 850 lawyers, engineers, scientists, inspectors, environmental specialists, analysts and administrative support.
Kevin Johnson Mayor, City of Sacramento
Kevin Johnson In his second year in office, Mayor Johnson launched an ambitious initiative to trans- form Sacramento into the Emerald Valley – the greenest region in the country and a hub for clean technology. Over the course of eight months, he convened over 275 experts and community leaders at least once a month to hear from internationally recognized environmental leaders, including: former-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Thomas L. Friedman, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Van Jones, and Alice Waters. These meetings inspired the Greenwise Regional Action Plan, a 10-year plan with clear objectives and deliver- ables that will improve the regional economy and environment. His vision of the Emer- ald Valley has already yielded early wins for the community. In February 2011, the U.S. Green Building Council’s Center for Green Schools announced that the Sacramento City Unified School District would be one of only two recipients of its highly-competitive Green Schools Fellow Program. In September 2011, Sacramento City Council approved a contract with Ygrene Energy Fund to administer the city’s commercial PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) program bringing $100 million to building owners for energy efficiency retrofits with the potential to create 1500 jobs. And, in December 2011, Sac- ramento was invited to be just one of five cities to participate in the President’s Better Buildings Challenge.
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