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Press Coverage
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Read up on the press coverage Next 10 has received since its launch.
July 15th, 2010
Commercial Buildings are a huge energy suck
By Cameron Scott, San Francisco Chronicle
Commercial buildings in the Golden State account for more than a third of energy usage. But energy-efficiency improvements could cut their usage by 80 percent. Indeed, an average building's energy use can be cut by half just with low-cost, low-tech improvements to lighting and insulation. As for new buildings, if requirements were made that tacked on a 2-percent increase in construction costs, they could use one-third to one-half less energy than they use today.
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July 15th, 2010
Commercial Building Guzzle 37% of California's Energy
By Energy and Environmental News for Business
Next 10 is a Bay Area Think Tank that focuses on the economy and the environment. Their study found that commercial buildings' electricity consumption could be cut by as much as 80 percent. Officials with the Building Owners and Managers Association say they agree, but these findings aren't just true for commercial buildings.
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July 14th, 2010
Study Finds Commercial buildings Could Be Saving Electricity and Money
By Ida Lieszkovszky, California Public Radio News
Next 10 is a Bay Area Think Tank that focuses on the economy and the environment. Their study found that commercial buildings' electricity consumption could be cut by as much as 80 percent. Officials with the Building Owners and Managers Association say they agree, but these findings aren't just true for commercial buildings.
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July 14th, 2010
California conservation group criticizes older buildings' energy use
By Rick Daysog, The Sacramento Bee
Commercial buildings in California consume more than a third of the electricity used statewide, but much of that energy is wasted, according to a new report. "Up to 80 percent of the energy used by commercial buildings is going up in smoke," Next 10 founder F. Noel Perry said in a news release. Next 10 noted that relatively simple fixes such as upgrading the insulation in a building could cut usage by as much as 30 percent.
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July 13th, 2010
The Untapped Potential of Commercial Buildings
By Greenbiz.com
This white paper from Next 10 says that though California is a green building policy leader, commercial structures in the state are wasting huge amounts of energy.
The study, "Untapped Potential of Commercial Buildings: Energy Use and Emissions," was produced by the research and consulting organization Collaborative Economics for Next 10, an independent nonprofit that supports research, education and action to improve California.
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July 13th, 2010
Some "Low-Hanging Fruit" Still Hanging
By Craig Miller, KQED- Climate Watch
California's commercial buildings suck up more than a third of all the electricity used in the state--and that's too much. That's among the conclusions of a new report from the San Francisco-based think tank Next 10. The 12-page report points out that on average, such buildings could cut energy use by 30% just by upgrading insulation, and another 18-to-20% with more efficient lighting.
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July 1st, 2010
The Budget Challenge
By F. Noel Perry, Fox & Hounds Daily
July 1st has come and gone and California still does not have a budget. This is all too reminiscent of last year's painful three-month long negotiation process, and it seems almost certain that we are in for another grueling budget resolution season.
This tool was created by Next 10, an independent, non-partisan organization that educates, engages, and empowers Californians to improve our state's future. Next 10 recently released a June 2010 version of the California Budget Challenge that features the most up-to-date figures from Governor Schwarzenegger's May revise
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June 25th, 2010
Students Tackle State Budget Deficit
By Bill Silverfarb, San Mateo Daily Journal
Students at the College of San Mateo were able to trim about $10 billion of California's $19 billion deficit in a budget challenge game last night put together by state Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo. The California Budget Challenge is an interactive game developed by Next 10, a Menlo Park-based nonprofit agency that Noel Perry heads. Perry has conducted the game hundreds of times and no single group has yet to bridge the deficit entirely, he said. Two classes of about 100 students filled CSM's theater last night to participate in the game and get a good understanding of how the state budget process works.
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June 24th, 2010
'California Budget Challenge' with Assemblymember Jerry Hill and Next 10
By Let Your Voice Be Heard, College of San Mateo
This will be a valuable opportunity for us to let our representatives know which solutions to the current budget issues we believe are most viable and useful to us. In addition to taking the Budget Challenge, we will be discussing the reasons for the choices we make during the program.
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June 10th, 2010
'Budget Challenge' gives Californians a crack at closing deficit
By Dan Walters, The Sacramento Bee
As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislators debate how to close the state's whopping budget deficit, an organization called Next10 is giving Californians a chance to play budget-writer themselves with an updated version of its " California Budget Challenge." Next10 says its update contains the latest figures on income and outgo now before a two-house budget conference committee, which is conducting a page-by-page perusal preparatory to making decisions, probably beginning next week.
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June 10th, 2010
State budget town hall
By Paul Eakins, Pasadena Star News
Assemblyman Warren Furutani, D-Lakewood, in collaboration the non-profit group Next 10, will host a town hall meeting about the California budget. Next 10 has created an innovative budget challenge simulation that mirrors the decisions the Legislature will have to make to balance the state's budget deficit. The simulation contains accurate figures for California's revenues and expenditures, the governor's proposed cuts and alternatives so that the audience can make the decisions.
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May 14th, 2010
Budget Forum in Alameda
By Chris Filippi, KCBS Radio
In Albany, more than two hundred people participated in the California Budget Challenge. So many people showed up at Albany High School that they needed to share instant response clickers. These allowed people to vote in real time on some of the decisions confronted by lawmakers in Sacramento. The California Budget Challenge uses real numbers and makes participants chose where to cut spending and whether to raise taxes. Assembly Member Nancy Skinner hosted the event. She says the people she represents are willing to pay more for a healthier economy.
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May 13th, 2010
Schwarzenegger backs California as hub for green jobs
By Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee
Schwarzenegger said policies pushing environmental sustainability are actually driving innovation and creating jobs. Green jobs grew by 36 percent between 1995 and 2008 in California, according to a Bay Area think tank called Next 10. That figure compares with an increase of 13 percent for all jobs in the state. The issue is especially significant in the Sacramento region, where the number of green jobs nearly doubled in the time period examined by Next 10.
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May 12th, 2010
Skinner to Host CA budget Challenge in Orinda
By Andrea A. Firth, Lamorinda Weekly
Next 10 has facilitated over 30 events across the state and over 13,000 users have gone online to take the Budget Challenge. Skinner held three events in her District last year, in Emeryville, Oakland, and Pleasant Hill, and she has three scheduled for this month Richmond, Albany, and Orinda. The event will begin with Skinner giving a welcome as well as an overview of the current budget situation in Sacramento.
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April 14th, 2010
Take the California budget Challenge
By Susannah Kopecky, California Independent Voter Network
Budget making is no longer reserved for the political elite… well, technically anyway. A small group of Californians proved the point this week after participating in a Mercury News poll, based off a project started by the group Next 10. Next 10 was started by F. Noel Parry, a venture capitalist, and is "Focused on innovation and the intersection between the economy, the environment, and quality of life issues for all Californians."
The group's newest challenge asks regular Joes to act as legislators, and decide how to clamp down on a budget deficit of over $18 billion.
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April 11, 2010
Think you could fix California’s budget woes?
By Denis C. Theriault, The San Jose Mercury News
Some 150,000 people have taken the California Budget Challenge in the six years since the nonpartisan think tank Next 10 introduced it, and many of them have fallen short, too. The agony over that last few billion — choosing sick children over mentally ill adults, corporate tax breaks over university fees — is what the simulation's designers aim to drive home, in hopes of forcing a new understanding of the state's woes.
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April 6th, 2010
California greenhouse gas law still has majority support, Field Poll finds
By Dale Kasler, The Sacramento Bee
Next 10 released the survey as AB 32 is essentially fighting for its life.
Noel Perry, founder of Next 10, said: "It is not surprising that the current recession is causing somewhat greater uncertainty. Yet this research shows that large majorities of voters continue to believe that clean energy policies don't take jobs away."
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April 6th, 2010
Majorities of Californians Support Law to Reduce greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fees on Emitters with Taxpayer Rebates
Business Journal
"The financial crisis has hit hard in California, so it is not surprising to see that the current recession is causing somewhat greater uncertainty," said F. Noel Perry, founder of Next 10. "Yet this research shows that large majorities of voters continue to believe that clean energy policies don't take jobs away, and that expanding jobs, growing the economy and reducing global warming emissions are mutually compatible goals."
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April 6th, 2010
Survey: California voters “bullish” on AB 32
By Melanie Turner, Sacramento Business Journal
A majority of California voters support AB 32, the state’s landmark global warming legislation, (58 percent) and imposing a fee on companies that emit greenhouse gases if most of the money collected is returned to state residents (64 percent). That’s according to a statewide poll conducted for Next 10 by Field Research Corp. Next 10 is an independent, nonpartisan organization that works to help Californians to improve the state’s future.
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April 6th, 2010
More believe policy encouraging clean technologies will add than reduce jobs
By PR Newswire- San Francisco Examiner
A new statewide poll conducted for Next 10 by Field Research Corporation finds that a majority of California voters support both the state's landmark 2006 law that requires reducing greenhouse gas emissions (58%), and imposing a fee on companies that emit these gases if most of the money collected is returned back to state residents (64%).
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March 25, 2010
McClatchy high School students in Sacramento take the Budget Challenge
KCRA.com
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March 25, 2010
Try your hand at balancing the budget
F. Noel Perry, San Francisco Chronicle
The challenge is a nonpartisan online budget simulation from my organization, Next 10, that lets voters try their hand at solving the state's budget crisis and make decisions on issues ranging from income taxes to education funding and more.
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March 25, 2010
New Online Game Lets You Balance The State Budget
KPBS
Ever thought about how you would whittle away California's $20 billion deficit? You can try your hand at balancing the budget in the newest edition of the "Budget Challenge." It's an online game created by Next Ten, a non-partisan group that focuses on the state budget, economy and the environment.
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