<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI All.<div><br></div><div>RM<br><div> <br><div><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:news@info.green-technology.org">news@info.green-technology.org</a> (Editor- Green Technology Magazine)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 4, 2010 3:23:07 PM GMT-05:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:mill@continuum.org">mill@continuum.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Cities & Counties Buying Green - Green Technology Magazine</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><table align="left" width="400" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><font face="verdana" size="1" color="#444444">To view this email as a web page, go<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://clients.criticalimpact.com/vm.cfm?i=4FF796568832B940" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 0); ">here.</a><br></font></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><table height="834" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center" width="582"><tbody><tr><td height="144" colspan="2" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><img height="144" width="601" src="http://www.green-technology.org:80/GTNL-2-4/images/header.gif" alt=""></td></tr><tr><td height="690" width="453" valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><div><table height="650" border="0" width="460"><tbody><tr><td height="107" width="10" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "> </td><td width="440" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><img height="104" width="439" src="http://www.green-technology.org:80/GTNL-2-4/images/buyg.jpg" alt=""></td></tr><tr><td height="258" rowspan="2" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "> </td><td height="98" valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><div><p>Under the state’s Public Contract Code, state government is mandated to purchase products and services that achieve a degree of sustainability whenever possible. While there is no such mandate for municipalities or local governments, many are creating their own environmentally preferred purchasing ordinances or rules, even hiring sustainability managers to oversee the process.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://i.criticalimpact.com/go.cfm?a=1&b=4735&f=96bf2318d713f32efd33e6509fe75c70" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 0); ">Click here.</a></p></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" rowspan="2" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><table height="653" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="436"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><img height="252" width="419" src="http://www.green-technology.org:80/GTNL-2-4/images/gk1-home.jpg" alt=""></td></tr><tr><td height="80" valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><div><p>Next 10 is a leading researcher regarding the prospects for California’s green economy. 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Noel Perry discusses new studies from the group that focus on green jobs, the impact of reducing carbon emissions on the economy and job growth and how the failure to develop renewable infrastructure could threaten California’s economic security.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://i.criticalimpact.com/go.cfm?a=1&b=4735&f=96bf2318d713f32ed4aaa1c481c3f23a" style="color: rgb(51, 153, 0); ">Click here.</a></p></div></td></tr><tr><td height="16" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><img height="252" width="419" src="http://www.green-technology.org:80/GTNL-2-4/images/gk2-home.jpg" alt=""></td></tr><tr><td height="64" valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; "><div><p>A year ago, Professor David Roland-Holst of UC Berkeley, author of four Next 10 reports, discussed workforce creation, federal stimulus money and governmental policymaking with Green Technology magazine. 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