A new book edited by Beth Conover (and including an essay from Matthew Brown) hits the shelves of bookstores next week! How the West Was Warmed: Responding to Climate Change in the Rockies is a collection of over 40 essays from leading thinkers and writers throughout the region on the diversity of ways in which climate change is impacting everyday life, business, culture and public policy. Learn more and order the book by checking out the website here!

On October 19, the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project released a new report authored by ConoverBrown’s Matthew H. Brown and Beth Conover. This report reviews numerous innovations in financing for clean energy, focusing exclusively on financing for the end use consumer. It reviews revolving loan programs operated by utilities, local governments and private lenders. It describes and contrasts numerous different programs that rely on third party billing, utility billing and property tax based billing. This report will be posted shortly on this website but is currently available at .

Today, October 19, Matthew Brown will be presenting a webinar to a group of participants in the Midwestern United States about the Smart Grid. The group is focused on the potential for the Smart Grid to help meet environmental challenges by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and to reduce overall energy consumption. The webinar will examine what the Smart Grid is (and isn’t), examine costs and benefits of the Smart Grid, and describe major policy issues related to the Smart Grid. The presentation will be posted on this web site shortly after the webinar. In addition, the presentation draws heavily from a brand new paper released by the Midwestern Governor’s Association and written by Matthew H. Brown that describes all of these Smart Grid-related issues in detail. This paper is available at .