NDN Green Project Releases Major New Paper on Clean Technology and the Nation's Electricity System
NDN and the New Policy Institute are pleased to announce the release of a major new paper on clean technology and the nation’s electricity system by NDN Green Project Director Michael Moynihan. A former Senior Advisor on Electronic Commerce to Treasury Secretaries Rubin and Summers, Moynihan will lay out a compelling vision on breaking down barriers to a low-carbon economy.
An op-ed by Moynihan on this subject in today's San Francisco Chronicle is available here.
The paper release will occur at 12pm on Thursday, February 4 at NDN.
This event will be live webcast. The webcast will begin at 12:15 pm. Watch the webcast here.
Michael Moynihan is Director of NDN's Green Project. In 1999, Mr. Moynihan founded the first Internet video sharing community and website, AlwaysonTV, pioneering such innovations as personal video channels. From 1996 to 1999, he served in the Clinton Administration where he held the Internet portfolio and advised Secretaries Rubin and Summers as Senior Advisor for Electronic Commerce. While in the Clinton Administration, he led successful efforts to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act, helped negotiate e-commerce agreements on payments, taxation and other issues with the EU and Japan and oversaw the e-commerce efforts of Treasury's 140,000 employees. Prior to assuming the Internet portfolio, he worked on a variety of other issues including managing debt crises, reforming the global financial architecture, balancing the budget and modernizing the IRS.
Mr. Moynihan has been a member of the faculty of New York University, a fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and was the Robert C. Seamans Fellow in Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of government. He holds degrees from Columbia and Harvard and is currently a PhD candidate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Coming American Renaissance (Simon & Schuster) and other books. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications.
