ABOUT CIVICFINANCE.ORG
Civic Finance is written by Edward Ring, a California native who became a policy analyst and journalist after spending the first half of his career working for private companies and startups. In 2021 he was the founder and leader of the “More Water Now” campaign, which culminated in the drafting of the Water Infrastructure Funding Act of 2022, which the campaign attempted to qualify for California’s November 2022 state ballot.
Ring is the director of energy and water policy for the California Policy Center, a nonpartisan public policy research institute which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors and lead author of the policy papers for Golden Together, a non-partisan think tank founded in 2023 by Steve Hilton focused on common sense solutions that unite people.
Ring is a regular contributor to American Greatness, National Review, Pacific Research Institute, City Journal, and California Globe. Previously, from 2007 through 2010, while working for AlwaysOn Media, Ring designed and directed their highly successful “GoingGreen” conferences, which drew clean technology entrepreneurs and investors from around the world.
During the 1990s Ring was CFO, then CEO, for Upside Magazine, a pioneering publication covering the intersection of high-tech and venture capital. Ring was CFO for Play Industries in 1999-2000, the first company to develop and commercialize a desktop platform for digital video production and internet video broadcasting. In 2003, Ring was Director of Strategic Planning for Anuvu, one of the first companies to build a prototype fuel cell vehicle.
In 2000 Ring founded the online environmental magazine EcoWorld, which he published for nine years. Up until sale in 2009, EcoWorld was a respected international voice promoting free-market environmentalism, something that is needed now more than ever. In 1998, Ring was involved in the formation and served as a founding director for Trees Water & People, an NGO that supports reforesting throughout Central America.
Ring is a prolific writer on the topics of political reform and sustainable economic development and the author of five books, Fixing California (2021), The Future is Now (2022), and The Abundance Choice: Our Fight for More Water in California (2022), The Best of EcoWorld: Nature and Technology in Harmony (2023), and Solutions: Innovative Public Policy for California (2024). In addition to the publications listed above, his articles and columns have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury, the Orange County Register, the Wall Street Journal, Cal Matters, Real Clear Politics, Epoch Times, The American Mind, and other media outlets. Ring has an undergraduate degree in political science from UC Davis, and an MBA in finance from USC.
Edward Ring is available to speak to your organization on topics of political reform and sustainable economic development. Use the form below to contact Edward Ring. Examples of his radio and video interviews can be found here.
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