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The program explores the economic and policy side of Silicon Valley's boom in clean technology. Host: Dave Iverson Guests: Dan Kammen, director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment Ira Ehrenpreis, general partner of Technology Partners and chairman of the Clean-Tech Investor Summit James L. Sweeney, director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, professor of Management Science and Engineering and fellow at the California Council on Science and Technology Vindu Goel, business columnist and blogger at the San Jose Mercury News

Forum discusses the possible economics impacts of global warming. Professor Dan Kammen discusses the Stern Report and the economic implications of climate change.

What went wrong with California's electricity restructuring in 2000 and 2001? How can the state recover from the precarious supply situation it put itself in? Does the California crisis have lessons for other states that are restructuring? In this talk, Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Public Policy and Business Administration and director of the UC Energy Institute, discusses issues surrounding the California electricity restructuring. In this video excerpt, Borenstein focuses on two possible solutions to the current crisis, one supply-side, one demand-side.