This month's luncheon features Roger Ballentine,
President of Green Strategies and former Senior Environmental
Advisor to President Clinton to discuss, “The Clean Tech Landscape: From Stimulus and Solyndra to Fracking and Rare Earths.”

With unprecedented stimulus funding and record private sector investment, the renewable energy and clean technology sectors were enjoying their greatest successes in 2009 and 2010. Now, with a dysfunctional and highly politicized national debate over energy and fiscal philosophy, as well as major market risks presented by cheap natural gas and longer term threats like constricted supplies of rare earth elements, will federal policy end up providing a headwind or a tailwind for the growth of these sectors?”