GreenBiz.com gathered several prominent environmental journalistsand the vice president of advisory services at Business for SocialResponsibility (BSR) for a panel discussion on how the 2008 U.S.presidential election would impact the green economy.

The paneltook place during the Second Annual GreenBiz-BSR Leadership dinnerduring the BSR conference in New York in late 2008. Panelistsincluded Marc Gunther, formerly of Fortune, Adam Aston of Business Week, Kate Galbraith of The New York Times and BSR's Eric Olson, during the conversation moderated by GreenBiz.com's Executive Editor Joel Makower.

In this third video clip, Makower and the panel discuss what isneeded in the early stages of the President Barack Obama administrationto tap the business community’s energy and innovation to tackle thecountry’s problems, both economic and environmental.

BSR’s EricOlson stressed the importance and responsibility of the businesscommunity to take a seat at the table to engage the government as itdevelops strategies to address climate change and the current economiclandscape.