Good to see a little old-fashioned regional competition to be the center of research and solutions - in this case, from San Diego:
Learning from their failed 2005 bid to house California's stem cell institute in San Diego County, local business and academic leaders are mounting an early campaign to become the state's hub for research on global warming.
The county's clean-technology trade group and others are lobbying powerful lawmakers – including state Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Los Angeles – for that designation. The effort includes one of the region's top scientists, San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and representatives from major companies such as Qualcomm and SAIC.
Padilla, chairman of the Senate energy committee, is sponsoring a bill that would create an office for overseeing efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. It would resemble the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, established five years ago to advance stem cell research. The next year, San Francisco won the bidding war for that institute's headquarters, beating out San Diego and Sacramento.
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