Energy & the Economy is focus of RE-fest 2009

From Post-Bulletin story 9/12/09
By Kurt Nesbitt

This year's RE-fest will focus more on how green jobs can grow the U.S. economy.

Like its predecessor, the second installment of RE-fest will mix fun with education about better living and a cleaner environment when it returns to Riverland Community College in Austin next weekend, except the 2009 version will delve into economic issues.

Its featured speaker, J. Drake Hamilton, will talk about what is needed to encourage private investment and entrepreneurship and economic opportunities centered around clean energy as well as a way to create clean-energy jobs in the U.S., cut U.S. dependence on foreign oil and use science to reduce global warming.

Hamilton is the science policy director at Fresh Energy, a St. Paul-based non-profit organization that is working to get the country to transition to cleaner, more efficient energy.

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