The 2007 Commonwealth of Virginia Energy and Sustainability (COVES) Conference invited David Schnare, Director of the Jefferson Institute’s Center for Environmental Stewardship to present on two aspects of the then-newly released Virginia Energy Plan. His presentation on Environmental Justice documents the care the Commonwealth took to protect the interests of those traditionally left out of many private sector and governmental decision processes. His presentation on non-regulatory alternatives to the energy plan offers the first disucssion on how reduction of global temperature using geoengineering will provide the private sector sufficient time to develop non-carbon alternative sources of energy, thus obviating the need for a regulatory cap and trade or carbon tax approach.