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ADVISORY: The Roosevelt Institution Scores Many Successes in the Last Semester of 2007
The first semester of the 2007/2008 school year held much success for the Roosevelt Institution and its goal of infusing legislative priorities and the public discourse with student work.
In November, the office of Florida state representative Scott Randolph approached the Roosevelt Institution. Rep. Randolph is interested in one of the contributions to Roosevelt’s latest 25 Ideas for the Energy Crisis volume. The idea offers a plan for inter-city carbon trading—it was designed by Stanford graduate student Adam Millard-Ball and based off California's own experiments with carbon trading. The policy proposal is now being reformatted to fit with Florida’s environmental system, and the Roosevelt Institution will stay involved in its exploration and eventual implementation.
Also in November, the Hamilton Project awarded Princeton chapter president James Coan a prize for his work on environmental policy. Mr. Coan wrote about the development of carbon-neutral coal-to-liquids fuel. His policy suggested increasing the R&D money for carbon sequestration, finding areas in the United States that would be good for all parts of the process – coal extraction, biomass, and carbon sequestration—and instituting a gasoline tax that would only kick when the price of a barrel of oil fell below a certain level. The Hamilton Project awarded Mr. Coan the second-place prize for his project, which he wrote as the Roosevelt Institution Senior Fellow for energy policy.
Mr. Coan said, "Without the Roosevelt senior fellows program, I wouldn't have known about the Hamilton Project contest. This contest encouraged me to research and better understand this idea. The contest allowed me to meet experienced and knowledgeable people at the Brookings Institution, and it will likely help to advance my career in public policy."
Finally, the Policy Studies Organization published all three volumes of the Roosevelt Institution’s most recent 25 Ideas release, on energy, education, and the middle class. These 25 Ideas volumes will be distributed by PSO to 1200 institutions around the world, and will be available to thousands of new researchers. Effectively, this means that student policy work published by the Roosevelt Institution is now available as established policy scholarship around the world.
All of these policy successes, along with the many successful conferences and events held by Roosevelt chapters, have all furthered the Roosevelt Institution’s vision of bringing student ideas and research to the forefront of American policy.
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