Bob Graves 
Bob Graves is a Senior Fellow principally focused on energy and infrastructure with the Governing Institute, president and editor-at-large of Green Technology and co-founder of e.Republic, the parent organization of Governing.
As Senior Fellow, Graves writes, presents, moderates and provides advise on a variety of subjects drawing from his more than 25 years of experience working with private sector companies, nonprofits and state and local governments.
In the 1980s as a co-founder of e.Republic, Graves was instrumental in establishing the Government Technology event and publishing divisions of the company. These divisions expanded rapidly from a single Government Technology Conference in Sacramento, California (1987) to scores of regional and local conferences and print and online publications providing news, in-depth articles, and research to hundreds of governments agencies and IT companies across the country. He also served as its Chief Administrative Officer and president, ensuring that the company’s organization kept pace with its growth into new sectors of research and online publishing.
In 2006 capitalizing on his academic training in environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Graves co-founded and serves as president and editor-at-large of Green Technology, a California based nonprofit publishing organization providing strategy and leadership for clean and sustainable communities. Bob helped produce three international “Governors’ Global Climate Summits” with a team from then California Governor Schwarzenegger’s office. He has also headed the production of numerous conferences on green technology, moderated roundtables on high performance buildings and guided training activities for over 5,000 government building officials and design/construction professionals on CALGreen - California’s new green building code.
Recent Articles
- Cities and the Competition for Energy Efficiency
- Excellent tools are available to monitor energy use across a community. Isn't it time for cities to be benchmarked against each other?
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- When Cheaper Isn't Better
- Governments are beginning to look at energy and other life-cycle costs in their purchasing. It's about more than saving money.
- Lighting the Way to Cleaner Air
- The way we light our streets can do more than save money for the taxpayers. It can contribute significantly to reducing air pollution.
- Next Generation Street Lighting Toolkit
- Public sector LED street lighting is an emerging market with tremendous potential for local governments to significantly reduce electricity costs, environmental impacts and maintenance while enhancing lighting quality. Technology is not the major issue. The real challenge is money and appropriate funding models will be critical drivers in the transformation of street lighting. Upgrading existing city street lighting is a capital intensive investment undertaking at a time when municipal governments are fiscally challenged. This toolkit is provided as a resource to help move these projects forward from start to successful implementation.
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- LED Street Lighting Interview with David Gassaway
- Get a hands-on perspective on what it takes to start a citywide street lighting upgrade project. Governing Senior Fellow, Bob Graves interview with David Gassaway, management analyst, City of Rancho Cordova, California.
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