Clean Capitalism Forum
@ Earth Day Texas
April 23, 2017

10:00am Welcome! Coffee and conversation
11:00am Millenial Values: Financing The Future

  • Katie Hoffman, Co-Founder and CEO of Resilience Collaborative, LLC
  • Savannah Miller, Development Associate, Resilience Collaborative, LLC
  • Patrick Furlotti, Founder of Venture Philanthropy
11:00am CTC for Rainforest Carbon Sequestration

  • Brett Byers
  • Matthew Patsky, Trillium Investments
  • Patrick Furlotti, Founder of Venture Philanthropy
  • Jeffrey Potent, Columbia University

April 22, 2017

10:00am Welcome! Coffee and conversation
10:30am Welcome to the Charrette of Charrettes

  • Introduction to Clean Tax Cuts and the Charrette Process — Rod Richardson, Co-Instigator, Clean Tax Cuts Working Group
10:50am What is Wrong with Climate Policy? (And how can we make it better?):

  • Andy Sabin, Chairman, Sabin Metal Corp.
  • Curtis Probst (moderator), Managing Director, Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Rod Richardson, President, Grace Richardson Fund
  • Travis Bradford, Director, Energy & Environment Concentration, SIPA, Columbia University
  • Rob Sisson, President, ConservAmerica
11:15am New CTC Charrette Proposals for Green Bonds, Power Sector, Clean Tech

  • Chip Comins, Chairman and CEO, American Renewable Energy Institute (moderator)
  • Travis Bradford, Director, Energy & Environment Concentration, SIPA, Columbia University
  • Rob Sisson, President, ConservAmerica
  • Bill Brandt, Director of Strategic Integration, ASU LightWorks
  • Rod Richardson, Co-Instigator, Clean Tax Cuts Working Group
11:45am Dialogue with the Panel on Green Bonds, Power Sector, Clean Tech
Comments and Questions by CTC Explorers:

  • Hon. Nan Hayworth (moderator), Board Member, ConservAmerica
  • Curtis Probst, Managing Director, Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Bert Hunter, Chief Investment Officer, Connecticut Green Bank
  • Matthew Patsky, CEO, Trillium Asset Management
  • Kris Mayes, Sr. Sustainability Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Inst. of Sustainability, ASU
  • Travis Johnson, Program Manager-Business Development, ASU LightWorks
  • Klaus Lackner, Professor and Director, Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, School of Sustainable Engineering, ASU
  • Sophie Dejonckheere, Manager, Energy and Environment, SIPA, Columbia University
  • Members from the American Legislative Exchange Council
12:45pm Lunch and discussion
1:15pm Green Philanthropy: Strategies & Pitfalls in “The Give-Away Business”

  • Andy Sabin, Chairman, Sabin Metal Corp.
  • Trammell Crow, Founder, Earth Day Texas
  • Laura Turner Seydel, Director and Trustee, Turner Foundation
  • Rod Richardson, President and Trustee, Grace Richardson Fund
  • Chip Comins, Chairman and CEO of the American Renewable Energy Institute (moderator)
2:00pm New CTC Proposals from the Oil & Gas CTC Charrette

  • Wiley Rhodes, Founder, One Step In Foundation (moderator)
  • Matthew Patsky, CEO, Trillium Asset Management
  • Soledad Mills, CEO, Equitable Origin
  • Zane Rhodes, CEO, Flash Gas Control LLC
  • Frederick Lemond Jr., President, The Lemond Consortium
2:30pm New CTC Proposals for Farms & Forests, Real Estate and Transportation

  • Rod Richardson, Founder, Clean Tax Cuts Working Group (moderator)
  • Steven Nadel, Executive Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
  • Linda Krueger, Senior Policy Advisor, The Nature Conservancy
  • Josiah Neeley, Energy Policy Director, R Street Institute
3:00pm Dialogue on CTC for O&G, Farms & Forests, Real Estate and Transportation
Comments and Questions by CTC Explorers:

  • Rod Richardson, Co-Instigator, Clean Tax Cuts Working Group (moderator)
  • Wiley Rhodes, Founder, One Step In Foundation (joining panel)
  • Matthew Patsky, CEO, Trillium Asset Management
  • Adam Sledd, Director, Market Engagement, Institute for Market Transformation
  • Bert Hunter, Chief Investment Officer, Connecticut Green Bank
  • Jeffrey Potent, Adjunct Prof. of Int’l and Public Affairs, SIPA, Columbia University
  • Members from the American Legislative Exchange Council
3:45pm Coffee break and networking
4:00 What’s Next?: Integrating, Refining and Extending CTC — Panel with Plenary Comments and Suggestions on Taking CTC to the Next Level:

  • Chip Comins, Chairman and CEO,  American Renewable Energy Institute  (moderator)
  • Travis Bradford, Director, Energy & Environment Concentration, SIPA, Columbia University
  • Rod Richardson, Co-Instigator, Clean Tax Cuts Working Group
  • Bill Brandt, Director of Strategic Integration, ASU LightWorks
  • Josiah Neeley,  Energy Policy Director, R Street Institute
  • Linda Krueger, Senior Policy Analyst, The Nature Conservancy
  • Steve Nadel, Executive Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
  • Wiley Rhodes, Founder, One Step In Foundation
  • Sophie Dejonckheere, Manager, Energy and Environment, SIPA, Columbia University
  • Savannah Gentry Miller, NEXUS Energy & Environment Caucus
5:45 Charrette of Charrettes concludes