james woolsey

Making A Bold Case For Moving Our Economy Beyond Oil

This article, published by the Puget Sound Business Journal, mentions the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: Woolsey spoke Sept. 5 at the third annual conference on transportation and technology organized by the Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center for Regional Development, which drew 450 attendees to Microsoft’s Redmond campus. The rest of the article can be found here.

Only Intervention Of Electric Car Can Break Oil Addiction

This article, published by the Tacoma News Tribune, mentions the Cascadia Center, Bruce Agnew, and Steve Marshall of Discovery Institute: PHEVs are a particular enthusiasm of the Cascadia Center, whose leaders, Bruce Agnew and Steve Marshall, believe that PHEVs are the best short-term answer to our dependence on for eign oil and the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The rest Read More ›

Cascadia Center’s “Beyond Oil” Conference: A Wrap-Up

A crowd of 500 key influencers from the private sector, government, academia and the media filled Microsoft’s large meeting facility in Redmond for the Sept. 4-5 conference organized by Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center, “Beyond Oil: Transforming Transportation.” Gripping presentations by former CIA Director James Woolsey, electric car systems entrepreneur Shai Agassi of Better Place, and Microsoft’s sustainability guru Rob Bernard – Read More ›

High-tech Vehicles Growing More Common In Region

This article, published by the Seattle PI, mentions the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: Davids, a former Microsoft Corp. program manager and one of about 500 people who attended the “Beyond Oil: Transforming Transportation” conference at Microsoft this month that was organized by the Cascadia Center of the Discovery Institute, is an evangelist for “cleaner, cheaper, domestic” technology. The rest Read More ›

James Woolsey Video: The Case For Change

Here is the link to the broadcast video by Washington State’s public affairs television channel, TVW, of “The Case For Change,” a presentation given on Sept. 5, 2008 by former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, at Cascadia Center’s “Beyond Oil: Transforming Transportation” conference in Redmond, Wash. Woolsey is introduced by U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, via video. After Woolsey’s presentation, Woolsey Read More ›