Off the Grid: Energy & the U.S. Economy

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Partner:: Foreign Policy Association
Location:: Foreign Policy Association
New York, NY
Event Date:: 02.01.09
Speakers:: Ralph J. Begleiter,; Nathanael Greene,; Nathaniel Keohane
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Summary: Rising energy prices, driven by instability in key producing regions such as the Middle East and increasing demand from developing countries, are affecting the global economy. What are the potential consequences of huge wealth transfers to oil-exporting states?

Are there any realistic alternative energy scenarios on the horizon?

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Ralph J. Begleiter

Ralph Begleiter brings more than 30 years of broadcast journalism experience to the University of Delaware, where he teaches communication, journalism, and political science. During two decades as CNN's �world affairs correspondent, Begleiter was the network's most widely-traveled reporter. He has visited some 95 countries on 6 continents. He continues to travel, with university students to Cuba, South America, Turkey and Antarctica, and conducting media workshops in several countries under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State. In 1998, Begleiter wrote and anchored a 24-part series on the Cold War. He covered many historic events at the end of the 20th century, including virtually every high-level Soviet/Russian-American meeting; the Persian Gulf Crisis in 1990-91; the Dayton Bosnia Accords; and Middle East Peace efforts. He has received numerous press awards including, in 1994, the Weintal Prize from Georgetown University's Graduate School of Foreign Service, one of diplomatic reporting's highest honors.

Nathanael Greene

Nathanael Greene is Director of Renewable Energy Policy for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He works on clean energy technologies and policy that will advance them -- energy efficiency technologies, renewable energy technologies, and for the last few years he's spent the lion's share of his time working on biofuels. He went to Brown undergrad and Berkeley for his masters.

Nathaniel Keohane

Nathaniel Keohane is Director of Economic Policy and Analysis. Dr. Keohane oversees EDF's analytical work on the economics of climate policy, and helps to develop and advocate the organization's policy positions on global warming.

His academic research has focused on the design and performance of market-based environmental policies.