Jeff Schweitzer Ph.D

The first country to master green technology and renewable energy will be the next economic superpower.  We sit at the threshold of the next industrial revolution.  The mantle of global leader is ours to lose, but that appears what we may well do unless we recognize the imperative of green technology.  We need leadership at the national level to shift from fossil fuels to renewables, to evolve rapidly to a hydrogen economy, to turn trash to cash, to instill efficiency at all levels of production and minimize materials consumption and waste in homes, farms and factories, to encourage green construction in houses and offices, to leap-frog to the next generation of battery and energy storage technology and to develop the technologies that will be needed to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

 Just as the United States became globally dominant through technology and innovation in the 1800s and 1900s, the next two centuries will belong to the country that first embraces and encourages the technologies that promote both green and growth.