Business
& Labor
Clinton Foundation Promises to Lower Cost of Green Technologies
(archrecord.construction.com - 08/23/2006)
By Alan
G. Brake
Amid the summer’s record heat,
Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation is launching the
Clinton Climate Initiative to combat global warming by providing
technologies that will help reduce carbon emissions in the
world’s largest cities, including New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, and Los Angeles. Modeled after the Clinton Foundation’s
success at distributing lower-cost AIDS medications among
developing countries, the Climate Initiative will organize
purchasing consortiums to bring down the costs of efficient
technologies, which will likely include architectural components
such as photovoltaic panels, green roofing materials and high-efficiency
HVAC systems. The purchasing consortium will also promote
efficient street lighting, hybrid vehicle fleets, and local
energy production, such as trapping gases from landfills and
using them as alternative energy supplies.
In a statement the former President
said, “It no longer makes sense for us to debate whether
or not the Earth is warming at an alarming rate, and it doesn’t
make sense for us to sit back and wait for others to act.
The fate of the planet that our children and grandchildren
will inherit is in our hands, and it is our responsibility
to do something about this crisis.”
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