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The coolest thing I’ve seen all day was at the “Green Freight Initiatives” session in which Sandy Shapery of Southern California Transportation Solutions introduced the concept of magnetic propulsion.

By definition, anything that can send Maverick and Goose screaming towards the Soviets at 300mph is cool. If it can do nearly the same thing with a freight train – without creating greenhouse gas emissions – then that’s even cooler. Well, at least AS cool.

At this morning’s GreenXchange plenary session on the connection between public pension funds and green investment, Glen Blacet of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CALSTRS) made a remarkable connection between the origin of the environmental movement and the remarkable groundswell that has now inundated the mainstream.