NCEO/Beyster Institute Conference Case Study the Poster Company for New Stimulus Bill

Before President Obama signed the economic stimulus bill in Denver, he and Vice-President Biden toured Namaste Solar, an employee-owned company and upcoming case study at our annual conference in Portland, OR, on April 22-24. Namaste has been a rapidly growing solar firm, but the decline in new construction and other economic problems might have forced it lay off 20 people absent the bill. Now it will hire 20 more employees. The story was covered in the New York Times (February 17, 2009).