Intelligent Utility, November 29, 2011 by Phil Carson
http://www.intelligentutility.com/article/11/11/energy-storage-california-prose-and-cons

“The report seeks to offer policy-makers an assessment of how the state could deploy energy storage technologies by 2020 in a cost-effective manner, given California’s environmental and renewable energy goals.”

Inside Cal/EPA, November 18, 2011 by Inside Cal/EPA Staff
http://iwpnews.com/sample_issues/insidecalepa_sample.pdf

“The state and federal governments could promote incentive programs, either by developing new programs or by expanding existing ones, to help finance energy storage projects, bring down costs and help manufacturers provide better data to spur further investment by 2020.”

-E&E News, October 24, 2011 by Anne C. Mulkern
http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/rss/2011/10/24/10 (requires registration)

“Proposed projects on farmland tend to spur opposition from agricultural interests worried about the loss of productive farmland in the state, as well as from endangered species advocates concerned about the destruction of farms that provide critical habitat for endangered and threatened species,” said Ethan Elkind, one of the authors of the study.

-Los Angeles Law Schools Examiner, October 24, 2011 by Seth Chavez
http://www.examiner.com/law-schools-in-los-angeles/how-to-harvest-clean-energy-from-degraded-farmland-ucla-law-berkeley-law

“It’s important to strike a careful balance between demands for food and energy,” said report author Ethan Elkind, research fellow at UCLA Law and Berkeley Law. “The state needs to preserve its prime farmland yet actively develop these projects on appropriate sites to meet our state’s energy needs.”

Progressive Railroading, July 13, 2011 by Editorial Staff
http://bit.ly/oHLW2V

“A good public transit system can create jobs, reduce commute time and expenses, and encourage smarter development that gives people more mobility and housing options,” he said.

New University, April 5, 2011 by Maxine Wally
http://www.newuniversity.org/2011/04/news/climate-concerns/

“We need resources for assessments and planning; we need help charting a future,” Elkind said. “We need to protect existing, local resources, local water supply, promote retrofitting and realize we are all connected in this.”

It is a problem felt by many, bringing about the humanitarian aspect of this issue. “The way it affects people really resonates with others because they can identify with it and can imagine how it feels,” Popovic said.

Greentech Enterprise, July 9, 2010 by Mark Boslet
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/pace-on-life-support/

“I think it is going to keep things on hold,” agrees Ethan Elkind, a climate change research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and UCLA schools of law. “It makes everything a lot more expensive,” including Fannie Mae loans and the bonds that municipalities sell to raise PACE money.

San Jose Mercury News, June 17, 2010 by Ethan N. Elkind
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_15320358?nclick_check=1

Fannie and Freddie should continue to underwrite mortgages on properties with PACE assessments. They could insist on required safeguards, such as nonacceleration of the PACE assessment at the time of foreclosure and mandatory incorporation of the Energy Department’s PACE guidelines. But they should not jeopardize the future of this promising program over concerns that can be readily addressed. To do otherwise would be to mortgage our economic and environmental future.

San Francisco Chronicle, December 9, 2009 by Nancy Skinner and Ethan Elkind

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/09/ED2U1B0MM8.DTL&type=printable

There are prime locations in our cities and developed areas that have significant potential for renewable power generation. These include rooftops of large buildings and the land along our highways, as well as the canals, pipelines and other infrastructure that make up the California aqueduct.

San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 2009 by Jared Huffman and Ethan Elkind
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/30/IN7Q19E409.DTL

The real estate collapse has masked the existence of a severe housing shortage in California. While developers have oversupplied single-family detached homes with backyards, buyers looking for a home within walking distance of jobs, services, good schools, parks and public transit have few options in this state…. The primary roadblock to this development is local land-use policies.