The 26th Border Governors Conference, with a affair of "Building Green Economies," will abode issues adverse the ten US and Mexican apprenticed states. This year California Governor Schwarzenegger is adopting the Conference's contour by captivation it at Universal Studios August 13-15 and by abacus a Green Tech Expo, accessible to the public, on August 14-15.
-- The accessible affair of the U.S. and Mexican Border Governors, with a affair of "Building Green Economies," promises to accession the contour of a different all-embracing acquisition that has been advancing for added than two decades. The XXVI Border Governors Conference will be captivated at Universal Studios in Los Angeles August 13 - 15. For the aboriginal time in its history, the appointment will be accompanied by a Green Tech Expo, accessible to the accessible on August 14 and 15.
The Border Governors represent the ten Border States of Arizona, Baja California, California, Chihuahua, Coahulia, Nuevo Leon, New Mexico, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Texas. This year the Border Governors Conference, at which government admiral from these states plan calm on a ambit of cross-border issues, has ecology challenges durably in its sights.
The 2008 accident is accepting hosted in California beneath the chairmanship of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. His accommodation to authority it at Universal Studios, to absorb the Green Tech Expo, and to accord the appointment an all-embracing ecology theme, is beating of his admiration to accession acquaintance a allotment of the accepted accessible that cross-border issues are about abundant added than actionable immigration.
Another aboriginal for this year will be the attendance of high-level chiffonier secretaries and added appropriate invitees from both abandon of the border. For example, Mexico's secretary for the ambiance will participate on a console acclamation baptize issues alternating with the abettor for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and will be an honorary attestant to the signing of a appropriate action ambidextrous with auctioning of atom tires that is to be active by all ten states.
Ricardo Martinez, controlling administrator of the conference, says this is the aboriginal time the Border Governors accept brought calm such top akin participation. Martinez has formed on Border Governors Conferences through the administrations of three California governors, and is aflame by the access that the accepted one has taken.
"I can acquaint you," he says, "that the Governor that has talked the allocution and absolved the airing is Schwarzenegger. He's abounding all the Border Governors conferences back he became governor. He's fabricated several trips to Mexico. He's affianced the (Mexican) President, chiffonier secretaries and others to accept to the needs of the Border States. That's why so abounding are assuming up. He will leave a bequest in this."
While the Border Governors Conference is an invitation-only event, the Green Tech Expo, amid at the Universal Hilton, is accessible to the accessible at no charge. Governor Schwarzenegger conceived of the Expo as a way to advertise the avant-garde articles and casework that are active a "Green Gold Rush" in California and to animate the advance of blooming industries in all the Border States. As an bulge of its accepted Green California Summit, Green Technology is acclimation the Expo in affiliation with the Border Governors Conference. (For a account of announcement companies, bang here.)
"Because our affair is architecture blooming economies, we acquainted that the Expo would be of abundant amount at the appointment to affectation California's blooming technology," said Martinez. Given that Mexico is the amount one trading accomplice of the United States, there is acceptable acumen to acclaim what California has to offer.
GE, which owns NBC Universal, is a above sponsor of the 2008 Border Governors Conference. The Expo will cover a pavilion featuring a ambit of GE innovations, from activity and lighting to baptize and processing technologies.
"One of the powerful, new drivers for the apprenticed accompaniment economies is cleaner technology -- what we at GE alarm 'ecomagination'," said GE CEO Jeff Immelt in a letter affable attendees to the Expo. "Ecomagination is GE's charge to advance in a approaching that creates avant-garde solutions to ecology challenges and delivers admired articles and casework to barter while breeding assisting advance for the Company."
"This charge has been ashore in the acceptance that what is acceptable for the ambiance is acceptable for business, and what's acceptable for business can be acceptable for the environment," he added. "We like to say blooming is green: that the ability of technology is traveling to accredit ecology investing, ecology development and activity accumulation to drive profits. With admired businesses and 320,000 advisers alive above every one of the Border States and about the world, GE is appreciative to crop allotment in this activating evolution."
The ten Border States represent the world's a lot of important and activating bi-national region, with a collective abridgement that ranks third in the world. They allotment abounding ecology issues that tend to abolish borders, such as baptize acceptance and pollution, air quality, decay management.
Each year, the Border Governors accept recommendations put alternating by 13 action worktables that abode agriculture, environment, apprenticed crossings and logistics, health, apprenticed security, science and technology, bread-and-butter development, tourism, education, water, wildlife, activity and emergency response.
The Green Tech Expo is accepting sponsored by two of the worktables: the Science and Technology Worktable and the Environment Worktable. It is hosted by California Secretary of State and Consumer Services Rosario Marin, and California Secretary for Environmental Protection Linda Adams.
Among the capacity to be covered by the Science and Technology worktable is announcement the apprenticed arena as a prime across for technology and innovation. Some of this altercation will focus on maquiladoras, foreign-owned accumulation plants alternating the border.
Although the advance of these industries over the endure four decades has at times aloft apropos about abuse and artisan exposures, there are break of the abeyant for a "green corridor" to emerge. Martinez addendum that abounding of the beyond maquiladoras, including Toyota, Sony and Sanyo, are already affianced in blooming accomplishment and blooming business practices.
"They are onboard, abbreviation their carbon footprints, authoritative blooming products. They accept ecology administration programs." Next Martinez would like to see added medium-sized and abate maquiladoras engaged, the "mom and pop" ones who anticipate it's still too big-ticket to get up to acceleration on blooming technology. "It's baby accomplish that we're taking," he says, "but I anticipate eventually we charge to advance for them to abate the use of solvents, for example, abate their burning of baptize and energy."
Another across that will be explored at the Conference is the harnessing of accustomed assets alternating the apprenticed -- solar and wind energy. "We could actualize renewable activity that can be acclimated by both abandon of the border," explains Martinez. "We just had a German aggregation set up boutique in Baja California that will aftermath solar panels that will advertise to both markets."
For added on the Border Governors Conference, go to www.bordergovernors.ca.gov. The Green Tech Expo is accessible to the accessible at no charge; pre-registration is not required. For hours and added details, go to www.green-technology.org/expo.
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