Welcome back to the EcoRight Speaks! This week’s special guest is Bob Keefe, the executive director of E2, a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors and others who advocate for smart policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment. Bob is the author of two books on the economics of climate change: “Climatenomics: Washington Wall Street and the Economic Battle to Save Our Planet” (2022) and “Clean Economy NOW: Stories from the Front Lines of an American Business Revolution” (coming out in a few short weeks) and co-author of several other business-related books.
Prior to joining E2 in 2011, Bob spent more than 20 years as a journalist, covering business, political, national and environmental news from coast to coast. He served as the Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; as a California-based national reporter for Cox Newspapers/Cox News Service; as technology editor for the Austin (TX) American-Statesman and as a business and investigative reporter at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and The Greenville (SC) News.
He talks about all the opporutnities for clean energy investment and what they mean for jobs and the economy!