Dear Initiatives Reader:
I hope you find this first issue of Initiatives in Environmental Technology Investment useful and interesting. Initiatives is published by the Urban Energy & Transportation Corporation (UETC), a non-profit corporation organized primarily to address local government concerns on energy and transportation issues. UETC has considerable experience in energy related issues and their effect on people and programs from the local to the national level. UETC achieves its objectives by using a national network of local government, academic, and scientific professionals. The corporation has sponsored a series of workshops and conferences in cooperation with DOE to promote exchange of ideas and information between local government officials and the department. Communication for the network is partly sustained through another quarterly newsletter, Energy & Transportation Network News.
With Initiatives, UETC will promote the same sort of exchange on matters of energy technology. The players in this exchange will be DOE's Office of Technology Development as a source of new technologies; other federal agencies with interests in new technologies; and representatives from industry and business. UETC's expertise in creating multi-level networks should aid this effort to communicate information on technology, its uses, and its economic value.
Initiatives is published quarterly and features an interview in every issue along with news of upcoming events and available publications relevant to technology investment. While the first issue focuses on OTD's programs and initiatives, future issues will strive to achieve a view of this topic from both the private and public sectors and to focus on ways these two areas meet to share resources. To help us explore different viewpoints, we've designed Initiatives for two-way communication by providing a postage paid reader service card. This card gives us information relevant to both the maintenance of the newsletter mailing list and the newsletter's content. Please use it not only to request publications and additional information but also to express your opinion on the newsletter, recommend topics for future issues, and ask questions. If the card is too small for all you'd like to say, please write in care of the editor at the address on the card.
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Sincerely,
John Burge
President, UETC
