TW2007 Day 2: Cameron Durke, Director of the San Diego Office of the Governor of California

2007.06.05 by John Serrao

Office of the Governor of California brought us their San Diego representative named Cameron Drukel. He highlighted some of the very progressive policies the state has adopted in order to combat global warming. The focus of his speech was the idea that goods movement is the central pollution mechanism creating greenhouse gases. To that end, Drukel's speech implied that advanced technologies, such as telepresence, are going to dent the total amount of goods and communication related traffic, thereby reducing greenhouse gas CO2.

Drukel went through an exhaustive list of policies that Arnold Schwarzenegger has pursued as the Governator including a low carbon fuel standard that will reduce nitrogen greenhouse emissions, green building initiatives, taking old cars off the road and the signing of a pact between California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona to reduce their emission through a CO2 market-based trading scheme.