William A. Nitze has been working on energy and environmental issues for most of his career. Mr. Nitze is the co-founder of Climate Clean Inc., a company that exists to generate reductions in greenhouse gases and particles by offering customers an easy, affordable way to address climate change. He currently serves as Chairman of Oceana Energy Company, a company that is developing a new technology for converting tidal energy into electricity and is co-founder of GridPoint, Inc., a company that designs and manufactures intelligent energy management systems for the home and small business. “He also chairs a small non-profit, the Galapagos Conservancy, and serves on the Board of the Alliance to Save Energy.” Mr. Nitze served as Assistant Administrator for International Activities at the Environmental Protection Agency (1994-2001), where he made environmental security a focus of the agency’s international work, establishing a formal working relationship among the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and EPA on environmental security issues.

Today in the NetGreen GreenRoom, Mr. Nitze talks to us about the science of global warming.