Leslie Weise, a resident of Boulder Colorado, works in business development and environmental law and policy for technology companies in the clean tech and renewable energy field. She holds a Master of Law degree from the University of Denver in Environmental and Natural Resource Law and Policy. Previously she spent 10 years working as in-house counsel for Silicon Valley Fortune 500 high-tech companies. Leslie is presently a principal with Cleantech Business Solutions, LLC, and serves as Vice President of Legal and Policy Affairs at Cool Energy, Inc.

Leslie was one of the 'Denver Three' - a group of three friends who were thrown out of a taxpayer funded "town hall" visit to Denver in 2005 by George Bush because of the bumper sticker on her car that read "No More Blood For Oil." The ACLU is leading the First Amendment lawsuit against the people whose policies and actions were responsible for her unconstitutional removal.

Blog Entries by Leslie Weise

New Energy Economy -- Next Steps for Colorado and the Nation

Posted November 9, 2009 | 02:59 PM (EST)


Kudos to Governor Bill Ritter for making Colorado a leader among states in tackling our nation's energy-related problems. These include excessive reliance on polluting, non-renewable fossil fuels; carbon emissions causing climate change; an antiquated electric transmission infrastructure; dependence on fuel imported from other often unstable nations, and the...

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Is Independent Thought Extinct in America?

Posted April 28, 2009 | 04:17 PM (EST)


When the Bush administration illegally prevented us from participating in a 2005 public forum in Denver because of the viewpoint expressed on the bumper sticker of the car in which we arrived, in retrospect we should not have been surprised because their policy of politically screening audiences throughout their eight...

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The Bush Legacy: Normalizing the Outrageous

Posted January 13, 2009 | 06:47 PM (EST)


This past week President Bush cited at the top of his list of domestic policy achievements for which he hadn't received proper credit, his failed initiative to privatize Social Security. The ironies of this self-congratulations are obvious: a) it was a failure, not an achievement; and b) most of...

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