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The former Commander in Chief appears uniquely suited to this new role.
While covering the 2009 Fortune Green Brainstorm conference, we were fortunate enough to sit next to Greener World Media Chairman and Executive Editor Joel Makower during President Clinton’s closing keynote. Not surprisingly, the speech was quite compelling. Joel offered to us that someone should bestow on Mr. Clinton the title of Eco Geek in Chief. We tend to agree and feel confident in supporting that nomination.
Mr. Clinton has a serious command of the issues and brings the presidential approach to sustainability. He has the ability to see the big picture and understand all of the competing or complementary forces down to the smallest details while simultaneously balancing them and offering both the most realistic and idealistic solutions.
The transition to a sustainable global economy is certain to be disruptive. The impacts and considerations range from the technological and economical to the social, political, cultural, legal, and ethical. Mr. Clinton understands all of these issues and his solutions reflect that.
Above all, he understands that the environmental problem is fundamentally an economic problem.
The most important thing to me … the most important thing you can do … is to prove that the transformation we are all committed to be undertaking is, or can be made to be, good economics. That will do more than anything else to give the United States a good climate bill. –Bill Clinton, Eco Geek in Chief
2 responses so far ↓
1 Sean // Jul 23, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Though I love the former president (hey we even have the same birthday!) I just think there may be a couple of better choices.
I personally think VanJones (see http://keenforgreen.com/node/241) is doing a pretty good job. Sure he doesn’t have the star power of Clinton but has singularity of purpose. I still expect Clinton to get involved in the Mid-East Peace Process in a year or so.
2 memory foam // Jul 25, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Hope Clinton will continue to help. The cause can certainly use his influence and star power, and he himself I think could use a major cause to identify with. A cause like this could leave a nice legacy. However I wonder if maybe he’ll choose some other area since Gore is so heavily involved in the environmental world.
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