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In his Inaugural Address today, President Obama combined poetry and prose as he spoke about the priorities that he will bring to his second term in office. For many of these issues, the technology sector has put forward ideas with backing from both Democratic and Republican Members of Congress. The challenge consistently has been building broader support to move policies from good proposals to new [...]
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The New York Times this week shined a light on the tech sector’s energy efficiency work – and there has been plenty of reaction to the major inaccuracies in the paper’s articles. ITI took time recently to talk innovation with Kathrin Winkler, the chief sustainability officer for EMC, about the broader issues facing the sector’s energy and environmental work. Given the Times’ articles and misinformation, [...]
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This blog was originally posted on the DESSC website. With the Paul Ryan announcement this weekend, the partisan messaging on energy policy ratcheted up further. To recall what 2013 should be about on energy policy, I spent lunch glancing again at two recent documents: Senator Murkowski’s June 5th speech at GWU, and an ITIF report also from June. The Senator notesthat our fundamental goals should [...]
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Earlier this month, The Economist ran an upbeat editorial on the reinvention of the U.S. economy. I was reminded of what is good about the U.S. and the amazing capacity this country has to innovate and collaborate, a theme that seems to recur in many other reports I’ve recently read. This capacity is evidenced by the Obama Administration’s Open Data Initiatives program. I’ve been reading about the [...]
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Experts from the APEC economies gathered in Seoul, Korea yesterday to convene a second conference intended to achieve alignment on mandatory energy efficiency regulations for personal computers. While PCs have been around for a long time, achieving global alignment on how they are regulated for energy efficiency remains at the early stages. To help address this problem, ITI has been partnering with [...]
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It is easy to forget during this political season that there are positive examples of the public and private sectors working together to advance shared interests. This week, ITI and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jointly convened a dialogue on the ENERGY STAR® program that reaffirms the mutual benefits that strong and focused public-private cooperation can generate. Twenty years [...]
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Earlier this week, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the government’s role in energy innovation, with Norm Augustine as the star witness. Mr. Augustine is the former Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin. His testimony was on behalf of the American Energy Innovation Council, whose members also include Ursula Burns, Chair and CEO of Xerox, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, [...]
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As policymakers in Washington ponder next steps for energy and climate legislation, one thing is clear: the federal government has a time-sensitive opportunity to lead by example and embrace what’s already working across multiple industry sectors. Nowhere is there a more relevant example than information and communications technology (ICT), arguably one of the strongest assets we have in our nation’s [...]
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