L.A.'s green businesses are also spearheading innovation and economic development.
Rumour has it that Mr Neves wants Ms Silva, a famous environmentalist, to spearhead a new "green diplomacy" as foreign minister.
There was sniping about his future under the Tory leader two years ago when news broke of his extra-marital affair with a gay man, but he remains a trusted ally and will help to spearhead the Tories' green agenda.
Green: said to have helped spearhead 1970s oil trading deals with Iran, Cuba, Russia, South Africa, Angola.
Green For All Academy Fellow, Katie Houstoun in Philadelphia spearheads a program aiming to turn one-third of the city's impervious asphalt surface into absorptive green spaces.
Van Jones, who was brought in by Obama to spearhead the creation of green jobs, was undone, in part, by Beck's ceaseless screenings of his video past, and resigned in September.
He has been a key player in the mayor's PlaNYC initiative, which began in 2007, and helped spearhead the city's Green Infrastructure Plan, aimed at capturing rain water and reducing combined sewer overflows and flooding.
The Federal Election Commission has also found "there is reason to believe" Sproul violated election law by spearheading a Republican effort to get Green party candidate Ralph Nader on Arizona's ballot in 2004, according to a public FEC letter to Sproul.
The German Greens also have served as the spearhead of a global coming out for other Green parties.
Lest skeptics think that the ushering-in of a smart green Third Industrial Revolution is problematic and unrealizable, take a look at China, which is already spearheading a similar economic paradigm shift in Asia.
