Fortune: The solution to global warming is obviousreduce greenhouse gas emissions. Accomplishing that goal, however, requires radical action. Few understand that better than Richard Kauffman, an exGoldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley banker whom New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed last year as the states first energy czar. Kauffman has visions of New York as a 21st-century clean-tech powerhouse. But for now, he admits, it remains more of a 20th-century energy dinosaur.
Were not on a sustainable path...