Our 2010 Forum’s theme is Using Labor’s Capital to Repower America - in recognition that the climate crisis combined with our pressing need for sustainable jobs requires the reinventing our power and transportation infrastructure.

Today state treasurers and controllers across the country are working together with public and Union pension fund managers on initiatives that unite climate and investment strategy. Entrepreneurs and investors are advocating for nonpartisan policies to catalyze clean-tech development and create green jobs. Unions are leading advocates of public and private investment for good paying jobs and a green sustainable economy. Yet there is still a great need for more education and more organizing to bring business, labor and capital together and use that tremendous power for achieving common goals.

This high-level forum is designed to focus on the power of Labor’s capital, in the form of public employee and union pension funds, as a vehicle for growing green jobs, clean-tech business and a sustainable economy. We use web-video to record and expand the reach of the forum’s presentations.