CCST is proposing to conduct a study of California's Energy Future (CEF) that will draw upon a $3 million national project supported by the National Academy of Engineering, the National Research Council, Dow Chemical, the Kavli Foundation, the Intel Corporation, and the Department of Energy, to study America's Energy Future (AEF). The CEF study would synthesize the information from the national report along with data available from multiple California sources to provide critical, California-specific information to state and local governments relevant to implementation of the state's climate goals in energy.

On Thursday, June 12, CCST presented the "Racing for the Future" Workforce Investment Board Online Toolkit to the California Workforce Association at the CWA Board meeting. The Toolkit, located at wibtoolkit.net, is the culmination of a CCST project developed as part of a workforce development project funded by a U.S. Department of Labor initiative called "Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development" (WIRED). The website includes a variety of materials designed to assist WIB partners in addressing workforce needs.

Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi was the dinner speaker at the October 2008 CCST Council meeting, which focused on water science and policy. The title of his talk was "California's Water Crisis: Innovative Solutions for an Innovative State". Lieutenant Governor Garamendi has a long history of public service both in California and at the national level, including 16 years in the Legislature and three years as Deputy Secretary of the Interior under President Clinton.

This special anniversary retrospective documents CCST's growth and accomplishments in the twenty years since it was founded by a unanimous Assembly Concurrent Resolution, and looks ahead to the challenges that California and CCST are likely to face in the years to come.