Author: Edward Ring

Edward Ring is the director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. The California Policy Center is an educational non-profit focused on public policies that aim to improve California’s democracy and economy. He is also a senior fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Ring is the author of two books: "Fixing California - Abundance, Pragmatism, Optimism" (2021), and "The Abundance Choice - Our Fight for More Water in California" (2022).

Ringside: Practical Steps to Climate Resilience

October 28, 2026 3:30 pmOctober 28, 2026 3:31 pm

With a mission to explore California’s energy and water future, it would be negligent to ignore California’s just released “Fifth Climate Change Assessment.” After all, climate, and its intimate cousin, carbon, are the foundations upon which every energy and water...

Ringside: Save Our Lawns, Reform AB 1572

October 21, 2026 2:20 pmOctober 21, 2026 2:22 pm

Californians are within months, if not weeks, of getting what could be the most thorough statewide drenching in decades, as a “super” El Nino grows in the Pacific. Expect hundreds (plural) of millions of acre feet of water to dump...

Ringside: Induced Demand is a Prerequisite for Abundance

October 14, 2026 1:10 pmOctober 14, 2026 1:11 pm

Not quite two years ago an influential book, “Abundance,” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson challenged the conventional liberal approach to achieving affordability and equity. They argued that economic and social goals could more effectively be realized by achieving abundance...

Author: Edward Ring

Ringside: Practical Steps to Climate Resilience

Ringside: Save Our Lawns, Reform AB 1572

Ringside: Induced Demand is a Prerequisite for Abundance

Ringside: Observations as a New Water Year Begins

Ringside – Geothermal Energy: A Huge Wildcard

Ringside: El Nino Emergency Planning Must Include Dredging the Delta

Ringside: The Energy and Water Footprint of AI