The United States
The United States
Local Green Spirals, National Ambiguity
Chapter 8 focuses on the United States. Although significant national green policy legislation is not at the national level, local policy-industry feedback spirals have occurred in California and Colorado, creating political viability for green policy experimentation. In California, we trace a feedback spiral from early policy moves to reduce particulate pollution; through AB32, a major package of emissions reduction legislation; to the defeat of Proposition 23’s challenge. California suggests that green spirals sometimes emerge quite slowly and unintentionally from tangentially related early moves. We note that venture capital has recently been critical but may not be an effective long-term model. In Colorado, we examine Amendment 37, a green policy package that assembled a surprisingly broad support coalition. Colorado suggests that green spirals can happen quite swiftly if supporters can find ways to activate latent partnerships between different interest groups that can derive tangible benefits from initial regulation.
Keywords: Green Spiral, Green Growth, United States, California, Colorado, Investment, Venture Capital, AB 32, Amendment 37, Wind
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