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Natural Gas and Clean Energy: Friends or Foes? Location: Austin City Hall - August 12th, 2010 Natural gas is an abundant, domestic energy resource. It is also an important part of the Texas economy. Natural gas is much less carbon-intensive and less polluting than coal. And, natural gas plays a key enabling role for renewable power by providing backup generation when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine. Natural gas can be used directly in the homes, for transportation, and can be made from renewable sources such as livestock waste. But natural gas is also a competitor for renewable power in Texas and its production in complicated shale formations has potential water and air quality impacts. This panel will discuss the various roles, tradeoffs, benefits and risks associated with a ramped-up penetration of natural gas into the national fuel mix.
	Austin SEEN #10 Long Center August 26, 2010 6:00-8:30pm View Event Details!
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The CleanTX Foundation
The CleanTX Foundation provides the networking and educational environment for professionals interested in building the Texas clean technology community. Our mission is to promote entrepreneurship in the field of clean technology and renewable energy in Texas, by providing educational forums, content, awareness and networking opportunities for executives, entrepreneurs, investors, analysts, and policy makers to share real-world experiences and challenges in the field. The CleanTX Foundation will also schedule ad hoc events when clean technology leaders are available to travel to Austin. We will also announce and support workshops and demonstrations of new technologies in the community and will highlight Austin’s growing list of cleantech successes.

Since its inception, The CleanTX Foundation has executed over 24 educational events consisting of its monthly CleanTX Forums, quarterly Solar Energy Entrepreneurs Networking events and annual clean energy policy events such as the Solar Forum held in 2008 and the Green Jobs Forum held in 2009 at the Texas State Capital. These events have attracted over 4000 attendees and 100 expert panelists and speakers. In addition, 10 educational primers were also published. The CleanTX Forum has become the leading source for educating and promoting the emerging Clean Technology industry in Central Texas.

The CleanTX Forum is currently applying for its non-profit organizational status (501c3) to continue to coordinate the events and partnerships necessary to extend Clean Technology educational leadership in Central Texas, deliver new programs, and expand the services offered to CleanTX community. Specific community benefits include:

To bring the cleantech community together to be educated on leading topics in the arena
Attract outside talent to Austin to present national and international topics
Assist and recruit new companies to locate in Austin and to do business here
Reach more of the Texas Community by hosting more events, broadcasting to other cities and building a community portal
Build and host a Job/Networking site