It's a future in which we're exporting homegrown energy technology instead of importing foreign oil.

WHITEHOUSE: Investing in Clean, Safe Nuclear Energy

You continue to show the way on green technology, a clean-energy future and the regulations needed to make it possible.

UN: Secretary-General

Every day, idea by idea, innovation by innovation, they are developing new technology that will help secure our energy future.

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And certainly, every year since he's been President, he has made a focus of the importance of investing in alternative energy technology, because that combination is the one that will build a foundation for energy security in the future, so that we are not as vulnerable to the kinds of price shocks that we get when oil climbs, as it is now.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Ministers said they needed to keep nuclear energy as a "bridging technology" to a greener future.

BBC: Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022

This overarching principle -- that we must invest in and embrace the innovation and technology of the future and not the past -- that applies beyond our energy policy.

WHITEHOUSE: Moving Forward on a New Foundation

The hut may well become a benchmark for future Alpine huts, with its designer, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, continuing to research its energy and resource use.

BBC: Exploring Switzerland��s green legacy �C on foot