We hope you can join us for our 5th Annual Breakfast & 15th Anniversary Celebration at the Westin Seattle with Tom Steyer as our keynote.
Our inaugural fundraiser in 2009 featured author, educator and environmentalist Bill McKibben. Our 2010 keynote was former Obama Administration official and green jobs visionary Van Jones. Our 2011 event featured Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chairman of Microsoft, and his thoughts on addressing climate change and clean-energy innovation. Our 2012 Breakfast featured The Honorable Lisa P. Jackson, US EPA Administrator. All of our events have been tremendous successes thanks to our sponsors, table captains, guests and volunteers.
With your help we can build on that success this year. Please use the links to the left to sign up to register, host a table or to sign up as a sponsor.
When: Monday, May 13th, 7:30am-9:00am (check-in at 7am)
We are excited to announce that Governor Jay Inslee will be joining us along with our keynote speaker Tom Steyer, Co-Founder, Next Generation.
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ernor
Jay Inslee is one of the nation’s most committed and effective climate
and energy leaders. As a member of Congress, he proposed the New Apollo
Energy Project to catalyze the clean energy transition, and helped lead
the effort to pass a national climate policy. His book, Apollo’s Fire, offers a detailed and powerful vision of a clean energy revolution that has inspired much of Climate Solutions’ work. More...
Tom
Steyer is a national advocate for investing in clean energy solutions to address climate change, whose targeted investments in renewable energy research, advanced energy solutions, and community-building strategies are aimed squarely at the intersection of economic development and environmental protection.
Before retiring from the private sector, he founded and was the Senior Managing Member of Farallon Capital Management. An avid Californian, Tom has worked to promote economic development and environmental protection in the state. In 2010, Steyer teamed with former Secretary of State George Shultz to defeat California’s Proposition 23, an effort by out-of-state oil companies to dismantle California’s groundbreaking clean energy law, AB 32.
Steyer and his wife, Kat Taylor, joined Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates and other high-wealth Americans in the “Giving Pledge,” a promise to donate the majority of their wealth to charitable and nonprofit activities during their lifetimes. He and Kat created and funded the Oakland-based One PacificCoast Bank and Foundation. Tom serves on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University as Vice-Chair and three years ago founded two renewable energy research institutions there: The TomKat Center of Sustainable Energy and the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance. He has created a number of nonprofits including Advanced Energy Economy and the Center for the Next Generation, served as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 2004 and 2008, and is a board member of the Center for American Progress.
About Climate Solutions:
Climate Solutions (www.climatesolutions.org)
works to accelerate practical and profitable solutions to global warming
by galvanizing leadership, growing investment and bridging divides. For
the past 15 years, Climate Solutions has pioneered the vision and
cultivated political leadership in the Northwest for the proposition
that clean energy and broadly-shared economic prosperity can go
hand-in-hand. Through our Business Leaders, New Energy Cities, Sustainable Aviation Fuels, NW Biocarbon Initiative programs and our central role in the Power Past Coal campaign, Climate Solutions builds a powerful constituency for local, regional and national action on climate and clean energy.
~ Special Thanks to our Sponsors ~
Climate Champion Sponsors:
Climate Protector Sponsor:
Climate Leader Sponsors:
Climate Partner Sponsors:
Climate Friend Sponsors:
In-Kind Sponsors:
The Imprint Source
Trade Printery
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Table Hosts:
Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Paul Balle/Woodland Park Zoo
John & Maria Bliss
Evercore Wealth Management
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Elaine & John French
Friends of the Waterfront
One PacificCoast Bank
Ross Strategic
Seattle Academy
Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment
Greg & Nancy Serrurier
Haeryung Shin
Ted & Bridget Sturdevant
Steve Sundquist
Sustainable Works
Washington Business Alliance
Washington State University
WEC-WCV
Wildlife Forever Fund
Table Captains:
We'll need dozens of table captains to make the 5th Annual Breakfast even
better. Please contact Teresa Myers if you are interested in being a
table captain.
Table captain information and guide.
Sponsors:
As a clean economy leader, you understand the importance of strong
policy and powerful networks to build the foundations for a sustainable,
carbon-free prosperity for the region. The Climate Solutions annual
breakfast has become the premier event in the region where business
leaders, elected officials, and clean energy advocates gather to
celebrate successes and discuss pending challenges. Sponsoring Climate
Solutions is a great way to showcase your leadership and support our
mission. Please contact Teresa Myers if you are interested in sponsoring.
Here are the sponsor levels, benefits, form and corporate gifts acceptance policy.
Volunteers:
and put "Breakfast volunteer" in the subject line for more information.
