2013
A NOTE FROM GREG DALTON In 2007, I had the privilege of leading a group of Commonwealth Club members to the Arctic Circle aboard a Russian icebreaker. For nearly two weeks, we explored Siberia and the Bering Sea and heard daily lectures from prominent journalists and climate scientists. Witnessing firsthand the signs of a disrupted climate – melting tundra, shrinking sea ice, and butterflies further north than normal – changed my life. When we returned, Commonwealth Club CEO Dr. Gloria Duffy and I created Climate One, the sustainability initiative at The Club. Today, Climate One is a thriving leadership dialogue on climate change, serving leaders, professionals, and engaged citizens in the room and on the air. We produce the only regular public radio and TV show on the opportunities of moving to a clean energy economy and the necessity of protecting our climate. In 2013, the small and mighty Climate One team led by producer Jane Ann Chien produced 54 events that featured 137 experts. Over six thousand people joined the conversation by attending an event and becoming part of our dedicated community. Highlights included Governor Jerry Brown presenting the 2013 Stephen Schneider Award to economist Nicholas Stern. We also welcomed United States Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, United States Senator Dianne Feinstein, and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Climate One leads the news. Months before the California drought made headlines, we held two programs on water stress in the era of climate disruption. A week before a page one story in The New York Times on the environmental aspects of the proposed Transpacific partnership, the Climate One radio featured United States Trade Ambassador Michael Froman on that topic. Well before The New York Times ran a front story on multinational corporations planning for a price on carbon pollution a Climate One program featured Microsoft’s internal carbon price. Climate One is about all of us. Thank you for being a vital part of it.
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WHY DO YOU COME TO CLIMATE ONE PROGRAMS?
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THE TOPIC RELATES TO MY DAY JOB THE TOPIC WILL AFFECT MY LIFE THE TOPIC IS INTERESTING AND I WANT TO LEARN MORE
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”We waste a third of the food
that we buy, we waste a third of the energy that’s generated, we waste a comparable amount of water in this country, and that’s throwing money away.”
ARON CRAMER
President & CEO, Business for Social Responsability
”We’re at the very starting
point of getting to the kind of transparency and provision of information and provision of … useful information that can be turned into action, and that can actually influence behaviors. That is where we want to go.”
DARA O’ROURKE
Co-Founder, Good Guide; Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
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”Patagonia [is] starting to value
ecosystem services, and I think that it’s not going to necessarily change the structure of the corporation itself, but it’s going to change the way that corporations look at the use of natural resource and sourcing supplies for the products that they make.”
WILLIAM BRENT
Executive Vice President, Energy, Cleantech and Sustainability, Weber Shandwick
”We need to start putting a
significant and escalating price on carbon. We need to be putting the cap on carbon. … I think we need to all be getting common cause to get this done.”
ROSS MACFARLANE
Senior Advisor, Business Partnership, Climate Solutions
”Natural gas can be an
important bridge fuel, provided there’s adequate regulation to ensure that methane leakage is not a problem, to ensure that fracking is done in a way that’s environmentally sustainable.”
TREVOR HOUSER Partner, Rhodium Group
”We in the United States have a
tremendous opportunity, and I would say a responsibility. We sit on the largest coal reserves in the world. We have 25 percent of all the coal in the entire globe. Much of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is also from us over the last hundred years.”
BRUCE NILLES
Senior Director, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club
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”Maybe at the end of its usable life in your closet,
there’s a need for the product out there somewhere. If the jeans are literally to the point where they’re not usable anymore, we have a program where we will recycle jeans into insulation. A part of my house is actually insulated with denim.”
CHARLES BERGH CEO, Levi Strauss & Co.
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”The trouble with despair as a response is that not
only does it offer no solutions and is useless, but it also isn’t any fun. So let’s be optimistic, let’s commit to collaboration, let’s work together to find these solutions, and let’s just cross our fingers that we pull it off.”
RICK RIDGEWAY
Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Patagonia
”I think it’s easy to disengage.
It’s easy to be overwhelmed and to think, ‘What in the heck can I do?’ That’s why we put so much faith in young people to try and build a connected community, starting in their school, branching out in the region so that they feel they’re not alone.”
”There is obviously going to be some opposition, but there is a consensus that climate change is real, that we have an impact on it, and that we can change it. There’s hope. There’s definitely hope.”
ROSEMARY DAVIES Student Activist
”To hell with the practicalities; we’ve got a crisis here. We have to do something. We need everybody on deck, and we need to try all options.”
CARLEEN CULLEN
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Cool the Earth
MIKE HAAS
Founder, Alliance for Climate Education
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”We need more than hope. We need action. And while talk is just talk, silence has been very expensive up until
now. Through leadership and talk, the President’s got the opportunity now to connect the dots for the American public so that we can get to a time where it’s possible to envision Congress taking the action that this country desperately needs to take.”
FRED KRUPP
President, Environmental Defense Fund
”We need all the energy that the world can develop economically and commercially. We need it all. And so these aren’t energy and technologies that should be competing with each other. These are technologies that should work together to supply the world’s energy. There’s no competition in my mind.”
RHONDA ZYGOCKI
Executive VP of Product and Planning, Chevron
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”We’ve seen our clients particularly in the Valley that are
predominantly Republican … being huge adoptors of solar because it makes business sense. They always tell me, ‘Marco, we like the green that you guys think about in San Francisco, but the kind of green that we really care about is the green that ends up in my pocket.’ And it turns out they can have both.”
MARCO KRAPELS
Executive Vice President, Rabobank
”120,000 Americans work in the solar industry. … Any economic
model suggests we will be ten percent of the Californian grid and some significant percentage of the rest of the grid before too long. So we will employ millions of Americans by those numbers.”
DANNY KENNEDY President & Founder, Sungevity
”There hasn’t been any accountability or competitiveness in the utility
model because they’ve been monopolies, and that’s changing. It’s a hard transition for them.”
EDWARD FENSTER Co-Founder, Sunrun
”The utility business model needs to change from where it is today.
They need to get to a point where they manage the grid, and that’s their responsibility. … If they give homeowners access to generating electricity, then they can create grid stability.”
LYNDON RIVE
Co-Founder & CEO, SolarCity
”We still haven’t done
enough. It takes policy. It’s not just individual action. It has to drive the kind of change that’s necessary.”
”Simultaneous action around
just the right people is key. It’s not everyone, it’s not all seven billion, one day nine billion acting in concert. It’s actually a few thousand. And then if you GERNOT WAGNER pinpoint the problem, pinpoint Economist, Environmental the solution and get the right Defense Fund people to perform, you can actually change it.”
GLEN LOW Principal, Blu Skye
”Once you have taken one action,
something really almost magical happens. It changes the way that you think about yourself and your own identity. Whereas before, you are a person who didn’t care about energy efficiency to now, ‘I do care about energy efficiency because I put in this compact light bulb.’ And you’re much more likely to take an additional action in the future.”
CHRISTOPHER JONES Researcher, CoolClimate Network
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”There are great options for
recycling products but before you recycle a product, the better option is to get more use out of it.”
ANDY RUBEN Co-Founder, Yerdle
”I think we’re at the very
beginning of something that’s going to be really fundamental to reshape how we think about living, working, spending.”
LISA GANSKY Author, The Mesh
”[The Internet] is a platform for
engagement, for getting people to be not just passive consumers but producers, owners in this new economy.”
BILLY PARISH
Founder & President, Solar Mosaic
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”People believe in the long-term vision of Lyft, to
have a net effect in reducing vehicle miles travelled and greenhouse gas emission.”
KRISTIN SVERCHECK
Head of Public Policy & General Counsel, Lyft, Zimride
”Sharing is not a crime. It is good for society and we need to figure out a way to encourage sharing innovations, not fine them.”
SUNIL PAUL CEO, Sidecar
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”Where the real gain and opportunity is for
reduction in vehicle miles travelled is to actually get people to sell cars or to postpone car purchases.”
SUSAN SHAHEEN
Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, UC Berkeley
”Every day, 80,000 fewer miles are driven on Bay
Area roads due to City CarShare members. Every single one of those members is likely to have gotten rid of a car, not bought a car, or is thinking about getting rid of a car.”
RICK HUCHINSON CEO, City Car Share
”I think there’s a real future for electric vehicles. … I think companies have a responsibility to work on new technologies.” ED WHITACRE
Former CEO, General Motors
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”Every time somebody said, ‘Oh, John is writing a
book about sea level rise.’ It’s like, ‘Psst, how long do we have?’”
JOHN ENGLANDER
Author, High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis
”We know what the impacts are going to be right
now and in the next couple of decades. There’s sea level rise and there’s extreme weather, and there’s heat and flood and drought. That’s what I think we need to focus on because that’s our higher risk.”
ANGELA FRITZ
Atmospheric Scientist, Weather Underground
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”[We know what] could be the
impacts in the future so we have to plan now. We don’t want to do it in an incremental, piecemeal fashion. Right now, we feel the responsibility as a city to take a more proactive approach to adaptation, especially in these high-priority, high-risk areas.”
MELANIE NUTTER
Director, San Francisco Department of the Environment
”I’m not so optimistic that the
United States government can continue to fund fixing areas just to see them in the same level of risk as they were before. I think you need a recovery plan that’s going to demonstrate how that risk gets mitigated.”
EZRA RAPPORT
Executive Director, Association of Bay Area Governments
”Even if we were 100 percent
successful at reducing [greenhouse gases], it would not control the problem. However, California is absolutely looked at as a leader in this issue, and I think what we do does have benefit in terms of being replicated and modeled in other parts of the country and indeed the world.”
R. ZACK WASSERMAN
Chairman & CEO, Bay Conservation and Development Commission
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”Governor Schwarzenegger teamed up with Democrats in the State Senate and the State Assembly to pass AB 32, which is effectively a cap-and-trade system that now exists in California. … That’s an example of a Republican governor, a Democratic legislature, obviously a Democratic state coming together and actually passing something and doing something that is really big and pretty substantive.”
CHRISTOPHER LEHANE
Partner & Political Strategist, Fabiani & Lehane; former political consultant for President Bill Clinton
”When the debate [is about whether] climate change is real or not, I don’t think the American people are being done a service. If you take the scientific evidence, it is totally clear that, in fact, climate change is real.” STEVE SCHMIDT
Vice Chair, Edelman; former senior campaign strategist for Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign
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”The new urbanism is great, but there’s a reason the suburbs
exist. We believe we need to find ways to create dense nodes in the suburbs that are transit-oriented to help fix the long-term problem of sprawl.”
ALEX MEHRAN JR.
Senior Vice President, Sunset Development, Bishop Ranch
”While it is challenging economically, putting housing and jobs
near each other and creating really vibrant 24/7 communities is, from a developer’s perspective, one of the most important things we can do.”
CARL SHANNON
Managing Director, Tishman Speyer
”I think the sharing economy is a huge phenomenon. I actually
think San Francisco is at the very epicenter of it. … This trend is helpful for reducing carbon, less building, less vehicles, less stuff because we’re making more efficient use of it.”
GABE METCALF
Executive Director, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
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”To build an eco-city – even a green building
– takes a lot of coordination. … A whole industry needs to go through some revolution, a transformational change.”
ELLEN LOU
Director of Urban Design and Planning, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP
”[When] you design a city with really a true
approach of serving the people on the street, you end up with much better urban design.”
JIANG LIN
Senior Vice President, Energy Foundation
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”I don’t think we can use the fact that you could clean up oil and gas as an excuse from getting away from the big policy changes that we really need to drive us off of all fossil fuels.”
KASSIE SIEGEL
Director, Climate Law Institute, Center for Biological Diversity
”I think that natural gas has a very important role to play in our
conversion to a cleaner economy and a cleaner future. … The issue with gas and fracking is that we need to regulate it well.”
TJ GLAUTHIER
TJG Energy Associates, LLC
”Right now, [renewables] are 1 percent of the energy in the
United States. We have a long way to go … and that’s why we need a comprehensive long-term policy.”
MARK ZOBACK
Professor, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
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”[Fracking] has been done safely, and it will continue to be done
safely and in a more regulated environment now, and we should all be excited about that given the potential economic benefits and environmental benefits of developing our oil onshore.”
DAVE QUAST
California State Director, Energy in Depth
”We’d like to see strong regulations that make [fracking companies]
disclose the chemicals they’re bringing on to the site, the chemicals they use and have groundwater monitoring before and after the frack jobs. That way, someone would know … and maybe even have a specific tracer, a fingerprint for that company’s frack job.”
BILL ALLAYAUD
California Director of Governmental Affairs, Environmental Working Group
”The absolutely number one priority for me … is public safety.
Environmental health and public safety shall not be superseded by any other interest, including trade secrets.”
MARK NECHODOM
Director, California’s Department of Conservation
”Everyone’s been asleep or confused about how to regulate [the
fracking] issue, and as a member of the public, all I can say is farmers are generally short-tempered about a lot of things, particularly water, and when something takes a million gallons per frack, and you’ve got three wells on a pad, it upsets people.” 20 | climate-one.org
STEVE CRAIG
Former Director, Ventana Conservation and Land Trust
”There is no question in my view
that we are on our way to a much drier climate. We are on it because of global warming. We are on our way to [California’s] major source of water, which is the Sierra Nevada snowpack, drying up, and it’s very serious.”
DIANNE FEINSTEIN United States Senator, California
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”I believe the old paradigm has collapsed. [That is], ‘If we only drill more oil, we will pay less at the pump.’ We’ve done that. It didn’t work.”
GAL LUFT
Co-Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
”We can’t be fixated on bringing
down the price of oil because that is not going to happen through anything we have any control over. We should be thinking about how to move away from oil.”
KATE GORDON
Director of Energy and Climate Program, Next Generation
”The thing that took nature
hundreds of millions of years. It’s really, really hard to do. That’s why we’re looking to open the market for small molecule fuels, which we call alcohol fuels. It’s that much easier to do. You don’t need 21st century biology to do it. You can do it with 19th century chemistry.”
EYAL ARONOFF Co-Founder, Fuel Freedom Foundation
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”What if every single façade that we have is turned into a power-generating area? What if every single
façade is turned into one place where you are creating algae and that algae is actually producing biofuels? We’re talking about a very exciting future. We should not look at climate as being exclusively a burden. Yes, we have to put ourselves on a diet. Yes, we have to be disciplined. But the benefit of actually addressing climate change is that we move into a very exciting, cool future. And isn’t that what we want?”
CHRISTIANA FIGUERES
Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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”Consumption, when it comes to fossil fuels, is what drives the total carbon emissions. As long as the whole world consumes more and more of this, the carbon emissions are going to increase.”
GREGORY CROFT
Lecturer, St. Mary’s College of California
”There is enough carbon in the tar sand deposit
in Western Canada to send the Earth’s climate into an irreversible tailspin that would make life itself questionable in the coming generations for plants, animals and people.”
SAMUEL AVERY
Author, The Pipeline and the Paradigm
”The oil industry will find a way to work as all
industries will. As long as there’s a demand, they’re going to be feeding that demand.”
CASSIE DOYLE
Consul General of Canada in San Francisco
”The Keystone Pipeline is more than just a pipe of
fossil fuels coming into our country. It is a symbol, too. We have to make the change some time. We should have done it 20 years ago. … If we don’t start now, when are we going to do it?”
DAN MILLER
Managing Director, The Roda Group
”The number one element of Shell’s advocacy is putting a price on carbon.” MARVIN ODUM President, Shell Oil
”[In the Philippines], by the time you step out of your house, you can see and feel the environmental impacts.” IMELDA ABANO Journalist, Phillipines
”There’s a lot of so-called ‘environmental victims’ in rural China because they have no power, no resources or knowledge to fight back against pollution or the consequences of climate change.”
LINCAN LIU Journalist, China
”It’s very difficult to actually create a momentum in the newspaper with your audience, but [climate change] is actually important. … One of the main challenges is really to tell a good story with such kind of a vague target.”
GUSTAVO FALEIROS Journalist, Brazil
”I think the media should focus not only on the problems but also we should find parts of the solution.” MICHAEL SIMIRE 26 | climate-one.org
Journalist, Nigeria
”At this point, 75% of Americans know that climate
change is real and want something done about it. The people who don’t want anything done about it are the small number of people who are making an enormous amount of money doing what they are doing.”
BILL MCKIBBEN
”There are people who live every single day on the
front lines of climate change and on the front lines of the operations of the fossil fuel industry.”
ANTONIA JUHASZ Author, Black Tide
Founder, 350.org
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”There are a lot of people looking for the business
opportunities here that may unlock a lot of really interesting possibilities that start to create what for many people is the holy grail. … You can continue to generate additional products without using any additional natural resources and without contributing to the mountains of waste that are out there.”
ARON CRAMER
President & CEO, Business for Social Responsability
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”You have to start acting, and this is something
that Walmart does all the time. … We don’t sit and try to figure out the perfect solution before we start acting, and that’s something that could hold true for everybody. Start acting. As you get more information, adjust to that, but be part of the solution.”
ANDREA THOMAS Senior Vice President, Walmart
“We can’t be the party of ‘no’. You can’t be against everything. We are fossil fuel users. We just have to use far less, and we have to start promoting renewables in a serious way. ”
JON BOWERMASTER Director, Dear Governor Cuomo
“Start at the local level. Start where you have the most clout, where you know your representatives, where they’re going to be more responsive to you, where they don’t need a million dollars to run a campaign.”
DEBORAH GOLDBERG Managing Attorney, EarthJustice
“The cost estimates on nuclear power are above coal and natural gas, but
not that far above. The costs on solar are massively lower than they were a couple decades ago. Wind has come way down as well. I think all of these technologies have to be in the mix.”
SEVERIN BORENSTEIN
Co-Director, Energy Institute at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
“You have to make next generation nuclear technology safer, more
manufactured than constructed, connected to existing supply chains, and also efficient in order to become cheap. It’s got to become cheaper to replace gas.”
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER President, Breakthrough Institute
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”Within my generation, there’s just sort of the lack of understanding of what the facts [around climate change] are. I think most smart people get that it’s is an issue, but beyond that, I think there’s a lack of clarity on how to break it down.”
JARED COHEN
Director of Google Ideas, Google
”[Climate change] affects our children and our
grandchildren. This 400 parts per million threshold that we just crossed is something which we’re going to regret. We’ve got to have innovative policy solutions and we need innovation. It’s going to take coordinated action; it’s not just the United States and Western Europe’s problem.”
ERIC SCHMIDT
Executive Chairman, Google
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“If we hadn’t had the
revolution in thinking about national parks that happened with Point Reyes, a whole series of parks around the country – including Golden Gate National Recreation Area – wouldn’t exist.”
TRENT ORR Staff Attorney, EarthJustice
“People watch this film in
other parts of the country and they see a way to inspire the people in their communities to take action in whatever they’re working on.”
NANCY KELLY
Director, Rebels with a Cause
“If we didn’t connect
people with nature close to where they live, we’d have no constituency for wild nature.”
WILL ROGERS
President & CEO, Trust for Public Land
“What inspired
me was, I thought I knew … all about Marin and Sonoma and the North Bay Area, and found out that I had no idea how close we came to losing it all.”
NANCY DOBBS
President & CEO, KRCB
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”The state is going to need more natural gas facilities in order to firm up
some of these intermittent renewable resources like wind and solar, so when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, you have natural gas to back that up.”
MARCIE MILNER
Senior Regulatory Manager, Shell Energy North America
”There are absolutely literally hundreds of different steps that a new builder
or developer can implement, not just in buildings downtown, but especially in the new homes.”
HUNTER STERN
Business Manager, Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
”No matter what, price competition really matters. It’s important from an elected’s point of view and also from a constituent’s point of view not to pay a whole lot more, even if it’s green power. … California leads the way. California sets the bar for the rest of the country.”
SHAWN MARSHALL
Executive Director, Local Energy Aggregation Network
”In the case of San Francisco, the government is already in the energy
business. It produces about between 200 and 300 megawatts of power from its Hetch Hetchy Hydroelectric project in Yosemite.”
KIM MALCOLM Director, CleanPower SF
”The sooner we start educating people about
the realities of this, the better off we are. I really believe that the future lies, a lot of it, in an informed citizenry.”
BRIAN FAGAN
Author, The Attacking Ocean
”Part of our job as scholars is to share this
information and let [elected officials] know that, in fact, the public is pretty well informed, and they do have an opinion.”
MEGAN CALDWELL
Senior Lecturer, Stanford University School of Law
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”We’ve really got to … elevate the political
intensity of the [climate change] issue so that both parties pay attention to their need to come together with some common ground solutions.”
BILL RITTER JR.
Former Governor of Colorado
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”[Climate change] is not about morality; it is
about fact, it’s about science, it’s about devastation, not about morality.”
CHRISTINE WHITMAN Former Governor of New Jersey
”Climate change will be the biggest health
issue of my grandchild’s lifetime and my great grandchildren’s lifetime.”
RICHARD JACKSON
”I’d rather spend a dollar on mitigation than a dollar on adaptation.” ANDREW GUZMAN
Professor, UC Berkeley Law School
Professor, UCLA School of Public Health
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”We need an alternative. Natural gas is helpful, but
it’s not a solution. It’s half the carbon of oil or coal but it’s not really a solution onto itself.”
JOHN HOFMEISTER
CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy
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”Pollution can no longer be free.” AMY LARKIN
Former Solutions Director, Greenpeace
”Frankly, if the oil and gas industry wants [fracking]
to be the future, they actually have to work more with the federal government.”
DAVID BAKER
Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
”There’s a lot of byproducts – not just the fracking
itself but from the entire drilling process – that cause serious environmental risk.”
ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN Reporter, ProPublica
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”We should require that businesses take into account the full cost of their activities, including the external costs – not just what would ordinarily be the private cost. In doing so, it’s not meant to be punitive, but it’s rather to align the pursuit of profit with the overall public good.”
LARRY GOULDER
Professor of Environment and Resource Economics, Stanford University
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”The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of
nature, not the other way around. The longer we continue to see this fool’s trade-off and plunder nature in order to promote growth in the short term, the further we get to jeopardizing the future prospects for growth because we’re essentially removing the basis of it.”
TONY JUNIPER
Associate Professor, University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership
”I agree that climate change is a
real issue, but I also firmly believe that corn is not a low-carbon fuel, and biodiesel is even worse.”
COLIN CARTER
Professor of Agricultural Economics, UC Davis
”We do not believe that ethanol
is the end-all. We believe that it’s the most immediate, viable opportunity we have today and has been providing significant benefits on energy, environment, and energy security, today and tomorrow.”
NEIL KOEHLER
”The challenge is that we don’t necessarily need to convert animal and human food to fuel; instead, let’s find those opportunities where it’s a winwin-win for everyone.”
MICHAEL MARSH
CEO, Western United Dairymen
CEO, Pacific Ethanol
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”We believe that climate change is real, and as such, we have to engineer the solutions.” KOFI BONNER
President, Bay Area Urban Division, Lennar
”As a Bay Area, we’ve got to keep this system that we have very strong. That’s why working on an environment, working on regional transportation issues, those sorts of things bring us together, and I think we’ll share resources to continue getting that done.”
EDWIN LEE
Mayor, San Francisco
”Climate is an existential threat and we have to grapple with this for the
future of the planet. It is also an economic imperative. We’ve mapped the clean economy in the United States, about 2.7 million jobs. That’s bigger than the fossil fuel industry. … This is the vanguard of the next industrial revolution. We want to be at the head of it.”
BRUCE KATZ
Co-Author, The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy; Vice President, Brookings Institution
”We also have to be reasonable in how we use [animal proteins] and think about our own personal footprint and impact. People just need to become more aware and think about their habits.”
WHENDEE SILVER
Professor of Environmental Science, UC Berkeley
”Eventually civilization has to come to terms with the fact that there are other ways of managing human societies, because this one is not sustainable.”
KRISTINE TOMPKINS
Founder & President, Conservacion Patagonica; Former CEO, Patagonia
”I’m optimistic that the American vision for big, broad landscapes is not diminished, and we can actually get that reignited to some extent.” PETE GEDDES
Managing Director, American Prairie Reserve
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”As the system gets
tighter and the prices get higher, we’re going to have to manage groundwater more tightly just like almost every other western state does.”
JAY LUND
Director, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
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”Having better
information on what is happening in those groundwater aquifers … is part of making our system work better. So we’ve got a first step. We need to do more.”
KIP LIPPER
Chief Councilor for Energy and the Environment, Office of the Senate President Pro Tempore
”The operation of our
dams and reservoirs now is very programmed, and it’s programmed according to old climate models. So that has to change.”
BETTINA BOXALL
Reporter, Los Angeles Times
”The emerging consensus actually is that the status quo is unsustainable, and things have to change.”
DAVID HAYES
Former Deputy United States Secretary of Interior
CLIMATE ONE CONVERSATIONS
”I’ve stood on cracking sea ice at the North Pole and a two and a half mile deep ocean. I’ve seen burning
Amazon forests. I’ve seen a lot of aspects of how climate changes the world, but when I dug in on the socialscience work about the climate in [our minds], it was by far the most unnerving.”
ANDY REVKIN
Writer, The New York Times Dot Earth Blog
”I think the age of heroes is over, the charismatic male vertebrate coming to save us. There is no game-changing
event for climate change. This is us for the whole century and the century following. So even though most people don’t think long term, we still have to plan that. And in order to do that, it needs a different narrative. It’s a different story than the one of apocalyptic heroism.”
PAUL HAWKEN Author and Entrepreneur
“It was a Republican president that created the EPA. It was a Republican president that did the Montreal
Protocol. It was a Republican president that did the cap-and-trade system that dealt with acid rain, so we’re the party that has done something.”
GEORGE SHULTZ
Former United Sates Secretary of State
“For the 3,500 American utilities, they spend less each year on research and development than the American dog food industry spends on R&D.” JIM WOOLSEY Former CIA Director
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“Yes, we want to save skiing, but we want skiers to literally help save the world.” PORTER FOX
Editor, Powder Magazine; Author, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow
“When snowpacks decline, the forests themselves, which
depend on that snow, become moisture stressed, and moisture stressed forests are a lot more vulnerable to things like pine beetle and wildfire. Once the fires burn through the forest, especially if it’s a really severe fire, the subsequent years, the snow melts off faster in burned areas.”
ANNE NOLIN
Professor of Geosciences and Hydroclimatology, Oregon State University
“[Today] is maybe the first time that we’ve had a
collection of the world’s best resorts come and speak on [climate] matters. So it’s huge step forward just to have this conversation.”
JEREMY JONES
Founder & CEO, Protect Our Winters; Professional Snowboarder
“Whistler takes sustainability very, very seriously. When
people come to our resort from around the world, hopefully they can take some of those ideas, talk about them, and take them back to where they’re coming from.”
DAVE BROWNLIE
President & CEO, Whistler Blackcomb
“Honestly, the most important thing that I try to do is be
vocal; be vocal with elected officials both locally in the state and with Washington.”
MIKE KAPLAN
President & CEO, Aspen/Snowmass
“We have a workforce throughout our industry who comes to resorts and actually selects our resorts because of their environmental ethic and ethos. … Employees choose an Aspen, choose a Whistler or choose a Jackson Hole because of what they’re doing corporately to make a difference.”
JERRY BLANN
President, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
“When people see maps that the entire airport of
San Francisco could be underwater in 50 years, when you start looking at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach being inundated, [they realize] that this is immediate, this is now, this is accelerating. And the good side is, people realize that.”
JASON SCORSE
Director, Center for the Blue Economy, MIIS
“I think very few people understand that every
second breath comes from the ocean really. As you think about it, every second breath that you take, some creature in the ocean, some plant in the ocean has made that for you.”
MARY HAGEDORN
Research Scientist, Smithsonian Institution/Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
“We in California should take it upon ourselves both because it’s the right thing to do to promote sciencebased ocean industries, and it’s also the right thing to do for jobs for us and for our children.”
MICHAEL JONES
President, The Maritime Alliance, San Diego
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“I think the oil companies have some of the best
engineers on the planet, I think they can [reduce the carbon intensity of their products].”
FRAN PAVLEY
California State Senator
“In fracking, you’ve got to heat the water up to
very high temperatures. And that is what the oil industry is using, fossil fuels to do that which further increases the carbon footprint. This is just bass-ackward right now in terms of California’s commitment to combatting global warming and a clean energy future.”
ANN NOTTHOFF
California Advocacy Director, NRDC
“California has a consumer demand of 43 million
gallons of gasoline a day, that’s not going to go away anytime soon.”
PAUL DEIRO
Energy Lobbyist, KP Public Affairs
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“The best electron is the one you don’t use to begin with, the
best drop of water is the one that you don’t waste, and the best drop of gasoline is the one that you don’t burn to begin with. So conservation is really critical.”
SALLY JEWELL
United States Secretary of Interior
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“We are seeing more sprinkler, including micro-
sprinkler which is very efficient, and much more drip irrigation, a move away from flood irrigation and better management of when you apply water and how much you apply. They’ve made some major improvements on the agriculture side, but there is a lot of potential that remains.”
“The more the [agricultural sector] recognizes the
need for water use efficiency and looks into some of the alternative technologies, that’s the direction that’s going to benefit them and the rest of the state’s economy.”
BRANDON GOSHI
Manager of Water Policy and Strategy, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
HEATHER COOLEY
Water Program Co-Director, The Pacific Institute
“Water is going to be the thing that translates [climate change] for people’s real experience.” BOB WILKINSON
Adjunct Associate Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara
“This year, we’ve seen more press on groundwater
problems in California than we’ve seen in the last 10 years.”
LESTER SNOW
Executive Director, California Water Foundation
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“We’re trying to use trade policy as a way of raising
standards overall – labor, environment, access to medicines, intellectual property rights. Those are core principles for us as we engage in these negotiations [at home and with other nations].”
MICHAEL FROMAN
United States Trade Representative
“Our department is trying to foster co-existence,
so we’re asking the questions, ‘how do an organic producer and a GMO producer live in the same neighborhood, live in the same world, how do they get along, how do they make sure that they don’t compromise each other’s crops?’”
TOM VILSACK
United States Secretary of Agriculture
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“For the first time, businesses in California face an explicit cost to
emitting climate change pollution through a carbon price. That has never happened before. California is really now at the forefront.”
LAUREN FABER
West Coast Political Director, Environmental Defense Fund
“The performance case for electric vehicles has pretty much been
made. Right now, it comes down to a matter of cost. They still do cost more; that will change.”
CRAIG MILLER Science Editor, KQED
“This is the moment that if we’re going to really chart the course towards this low-carbon future, we can make infrastructure investment decisions now that will be with us for a while.”
ANDREW MCALLISTER
Commissioner, California Energy Commission
“This pattern where we decide that there’s some competition between jobs and environmental protection, this is a stupid idea. … We, the public, are smarter than this. We need to stand up and say, ‘we care about both things and we want them to be done in a way that both are protected.’”
AMY MYERS JAFFE
Executive Director of Energy and Sustainability, UC Davis
“Let’s measure energy use. Let’s measure emissions. Let’s measure
water use, the major environmental impacts, toxins that we have so we can see what the impact we’re having is, and then we can decide how they fit our business.”
MIKE KORCHINSKY
Project Developer, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation); Founder and CEO, Wildlife Works
“We put a price on carbon, we charge for accountability purposes
the different business groups through our organization, … and we use those funds to support the efficiency and the greening and the carbon offset projects such as preserving forests.”
TJ DICAPRIO
Senior Director of Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft Corporation
“This is the decisive decade. … From carbon taxes through
regulation, my response is it’s got to be all of the above, and it’s a challenging political climate. We need all of the above, and we need it quicker and much more significant action.”
SISSEL WAAGE
Director of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services, Business for Social Responsibility
“I’d suggest that there’s no United States leader who is the leader
on climate change in the United States Senate or the United States Congress.”
BUD WARD
Editor, Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media
“A really useful approach to help people is to give them the skills to
detect propaganda. One of the social science experiments I’ve recently performed is explaining the tobacco industry tactics and then joining the dots between that and climate change.”
JOHN COOK
Founder, Skeptical Science; Co-Author, Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand
“Just because you’re right doesn’t get you off the hook… You can be correct on the issues and correct on the science, correct on the emergency, but totally wrong on how you move the issue forward because of your self-righteousness.”
JIM HOGGAN
Co-Founder, DeSmog Blog; Chair, The David Suzuki Foundation
“This dichotomy of either preserve millions of
American jobs or do something about climate change is just that false. The reality is individuals, companies, and countries who figure out cheap, efficient ways of providing low-carbon energy will be the leaders of the 21st century.”
BEN SANTER
Climate Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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“More people are beginning to see climate not as
an economic issue, not as a political issue, but as a moral issue, not only our obligation to other people in the world, but to future generations and to all of life on earth. Changing the way we think about this problem is part of the solution.”
JANE LUBCHENCO
Former Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
“The cost of inaction is much bigger than
the cost of action. In other words, the damage we do by waiting in terms of build up of greenhouse gasses is likely to be much bigger than the investment cost that we have to incur now.�
NICHOLAS STERN
Former World Bank Chief Economist; Professor, London School of Economics
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“Greg Dalton brings the right people together, at the right time, to discuss issues that matter. Climate One programs are informative and fun – two qualities in short supply in today’s public discourse.” – DAVID HAYES
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“Greg is the Michael Krasny/Terry Gross of the climate and energy issue: simply the best interviewer there is.” – BEN SANTER
Climate Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
“If you’re tired of simplistic clichés about complex problems, tune into Climate One for thoughtful, calm discussion.” – BETTINA BOXALL
Reporter, Los Angeles Times
“As more and more of the public begin to understand the impact of a changing climate, Climate One provides a unique forum for the reasoned discussion around the issue that we so desperately need.” – CHRISTINE WHITMAN
Former Governor of New Jersey
“Climate One is a thrilling and skillfully piloted journey through the intricacies of the global energy system. Public education at its best.” – GAL LUFT
Co-Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security; Co-Author, Petropoly
“A unique forum for a uniquely difficult issue. It’s all too easy to lament how climate change is likely the most global, most long-term, and most uncertain issue facing humanity. Climate One helps cut through the complexity without making it seem overly simplistic.” – GERNOT WAGNER
Economist, Environmental Defense Fund
“Climate One hosted by Greg Dalton is a great format with thought provoking questions, collegial dialogue, a live audience, and good media reach, far beyond the Bay Area. Very professional, positive, and productive. It was a privilege to participate.” – JOHN ENGLANDER
Author, High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis
“There are few places today where one can hear rational discussion and informed opinions about the many aspects of the global energy/environment challenge. Climate One is one of the best.” – MARK ZOBACK Professor, Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences
“Climate One and Greg offer an environment that allows participants to ‘take the gloves off ’ but in a way that is civil, intelligent, and of most use to the public and, importantly, to the panelists.” – BILL ALLAYAUD
California Director of Governmental Affairs, Environmental Working Group
“Climate One both informs and inspires, with an in-depth conversation on climate that is so badly needed. The engaging conversations in the Climate One series help leaders to tackle some of our biggest challenges head on and work together on innovative solutions.” – BRUCE NILLES Senior Director, Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club
“Climate One tackles weighty and sometimes controversial issues by creating forums that stand on facts rather than fiction.” – SHAWN MARSHALL
Executive Director, Local Energy Aggregation Network
“Climate One is a huge success as it brings balanced and informed discussion on climate related topics that many of us are uninformed on. Greg Dalton has created a masterpiece.” – COLIN CARTER Professor of Agricultural Economics, UC Davis “Climate One is a critical forum for connecting the dots between subjects – cities, energy, environment, economy, transportation – that are inextricably linked but often kept separate and distinct.” – BRUCE KATZ
Co-Author, The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy; Vice President, Brookings Institution
“The keyword to the success – and the importance – of the Climate One forum is ‘conversation’: all of us from all sides of our society sharing our views on a challenge that none of us from any single part of our society can solve alone.” – RICK RIDGEWAY
Vice President of Environmental Affairs, Patagonia
“Climate One takes on challenging and complex issues in a productive and balanced way. It is a great forum for convening a diversity of viewpoints to help create the common ground that is necessary for real solutions.” – RHONDA ZYGOCKI Executive Vice President of Product and Planning, Chevron
“Climate One is unique forum where top leaders can grapple with some of the most important issues relating to the future of our planet and economy. Greg really does his homework, asks great questions and ensures that the panelists really dive below the surface and get to the heart of the matter at hand.” – ROSS MACFARLANE
Senior Advisor, Business Partnership, Climate Solutions
“Climate One tackles the tough issues head on. Greg is a fearless, knowledgeable host who gets the best out of his guests and the audience, providing a forum for real learning.” – ANN NOTTHOFF
California Advocacy Director, NRDC
“Climate One provides a unique opportunity to explore the whole story behind an issue – Greg Dalton does an impressive job of drawing out the perspectives and points-of-view of the panelists and weaving them together in a meaningful way for the audience.” – BRANDON GOSHI
Manager of Water Policy and Strategy, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
“Climate One has an invaluable ability to bring brilliant people together with a truly knowledgeable audience to shed light on some of the most pressing challenges facing modern society. It does so with a zeal and with commitment to evidence that distinguishes it as a haven in an often noisy and stormy public dialogue.” – BUD WARD Editor, Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media
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Index of Speakers and Programs - January 11 Lost in the Wash Aron Cramer, President and CEO, Business for Social Responsibility Dara O’Rourke, Co-Founder, Good Guide; Associate Professor, UC Berkeley William Brent, Executive Vice President, Energy, Cleantech and Sustainability, Weber Shandwick - January 15 Power Mix Bruce Nilles, Senior Director of the Beyond Coal Campaign, Sierra Club Ross Macfarlane, Senior Advisor, Climate Solutions Trevor Houser, Partner, Rhodium Group; Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute - January 25 Clean Clothes Charles Bergh, CEO, Levi Strauss and Co. Rick Ridgeway, Vice President for Environmental Affairs, Patagonia - January 29 Generation Green Carleen Cullen, Founder and Executive Director, Cool the Earth Rosemary Davies, Graduate, Berkeley High School’s Green Academy Bridger M., Bay Area Sixth Grade Student Mike Haas, Founder, Alliance for Climate Education
- February 4 Driving Growth Rhonda Zygocki, Executive Vice President of Policy and Planning, Chevron Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund - February 5 Solar Flares Edward Fenster, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Sunrun Danny Kennedy, President and Founder, Sungevity Marco Krapels, Executive Vice President, Rabobank Lyndon Rive, Co-Founder and CEO, SolarCity - February 12 Individual Matter Glen Low, Principal, Blu Skye Gernot Wagner, Author, But Will the Planet Notice?; Economist, Environmental Defense Fund Christopher Jones, Researcher, CoolClimate Network - March 5 Sharing Economy Lisa Gansky, Author, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing Andy Ruben, Co-Founder, Yerdle Billy Parish, President and Co-Founder, Solar Mosaic - March 5 Borrowed Wheels Rick Hutchinson, CEO, City CarShare Sunil Paul, CEO, SideCar Susan Shaheen, Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, UC Berkeley Kristin Sverchek, Head of Public Policy, Zimride and Lyft
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- March 12 American Turnaround Ed Whitacre, Former CEO, General Motors - March 18 Bracing For Impact John Englander, Author, High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis Angela Fritz, Atmospheric Scientist, Weather Underground - March 18 Bracing for Impact: Bay Area Vulnerabilities and Preparedness Melanie Nutter, Director, San Francisco Department of the Environment Ezra Rapport, Executive Director, Association of Bay Area Governments R. Zachary Wasserman, Chair, Bay Conservation and Development Commission - March 19 Game Change Christopher Lehane, Partner and Political Strategist, Fabiani & Lehane; Former Political Consultant for Bill Clinton Steve Schmidt, Vice Chair, Edelman; Former Senior Campaign Strategist for Senator John McCain’s 2008 Presidential Campaign - March 22 Clean Communities Alex Mehran Jr., Senior Vice President, Sunset Development, Bishop Ranch Carl Shannon, Managing Director, Tishman Speyer Gabe Metcalf, Executive Director, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association - March 22 Tomorrowland Ellen Lou, Director of Urban Design and Planning, Skidmore, Owings & Merill LLP Jiang Lin, Senior Vice President, Energy Foundation; Chairman, The China Sustainable Energy Program
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- April 2 Fracked Nation I TJ Glauthier, Former Deputy US Secretary of Energy; Former Board Member, Union Drilling Kassie Siegel, Senior Counsel, Climate Law Institute Director Mark Zoback, Professor, Stanford University School of Earth Sciences - April 2 Fracked Nation II Bill Allayaud, California Director of Governmental Affairs, Environmental Working Group Mark Nechodom, Director, California’s Department of Conservation Steve Craig, Former Director, Ventana Conservation and Land Trust; Olive Rancher, Monterey County Dave Quast, California State Director, Energy in Depth - April 3Senator Dianne Feinstein Dianne Feinstein, US Senator for California - April 5 Petropoly Kate Gordon, Director of Energy and Climate Program, Next Generation Gal Luft, Co-Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security; Co-Author, Petropoly Eyal Aronoff, Co-Founder, Fuel Freedom Foundation - April 17 Global Meltdown Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - April 26 Pipeline Paradigm Gregory Croft, Lecturer, St. Mary’s College of California Samuel Avery, Author, The Pipeline and the Paradigm Dan Miller, Managing Director, The Roda Group Cassie Doyle, Consul General of Canada in San Francisco
- April 29 Water, Food & Energy Marvin Odum, President, Shell Oil Company - May 2 Climate Correspondents Gustavo Faleiros, Environmental Journalist and Knight Fellow, Brazil Imelda Abano, President, Philippine Network of Environmental Journalists Inc., Philippines Lincan Liu, Water Director, Greenovation Hub, China Michael Simire, Deputy Editor, Sunday Independent, Nigeria - May 2 Warrior Writers Antonia Juhasz, Author, Black Tide; Investigative Journalism Fellow, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org; Author, Eaarth: Making A Life on a Tough New Planet - May 6 Walmart: Emit Less, Live Better Aron Cramer, President and CEO, Business for Social Responsibility Andrea Thomas, Senior Vice President of Sustainability, Walmart - May 31 Dear Governor Cuomo Jon Bowermaster, Director, Dear Governor Cuomo Deborah Goldberg, Managing Attorney, Earthjustice - June 4 Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google; Co-Author, The New Digital Age Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas; Co-Author, The New Digital Age
- June 9 Rebels with a Cause Trent Orr, Staff Attorney, Earthjustice Will Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Trust for Public Land Nancy Dobbs, President and CEO, KRCB Nancy Kelly, Director, Rebels with a Cause - June 15 Pandora’s Promise Michael Shellenberger, President, Breakthrough Institute Severin Borenstein, President and CEO, The Trust for Public Land - June 17 Power Choice Marcie Milner, Senior Regulatory Manager, Shell Energy North America Hunter Stern, Business Manager, Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Shawn Marshall, Mill Valley Council Member; Executive Director, Local Energy Aggregation Network Kim Malcom, Director, CleanPowerSF - June 18 Sea Surge Meg Caldwell, Senior Lecturer in Law, Stanford University; Executive Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Woods Institute for the Environment Brian Fagan, Author, The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present and Future of Rising Sea Levels - June 19 Governors Whitman & Ritter Christine Whitman, Former Governor of New Jersey; Former Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency August Ritter Jr., Former Governor of Colorado - June 27 Overheated Richard Jackson, Professor, UCLA School of Public Health; Host, Designing Healthy Communities Andrew Guzman, Professor, UC Berkeley Law School; Author, Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
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- July 8 Environmental Debt John Hofmeister, CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy; Former President, Shell Oil Company Amy Larkin, Former Solutions Director, Greenpeace - July 19 Fracking News David Baker, Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle Abrahm Lustgarten, Reporter, ProPublica - July 25 Nature’s Price Tag Larry Goulder, CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy; Former President, Shell Oil Company Tony Juniper, Former Solutions Director, Greenpeace - August 21 Corn, Cars and Cows Colin Carter, Professor of Agricultural Economics, UC Davis Michael Marsh, CEO, Western United Dairymen Neil Kohler, CEO, Pacific Ethanol - September19 Metro Revolution Bruce Katz, Vice President, Brookings Institution; Co-Author, The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy Ed Lee, Mayor, San Francisco Kofi Bonner, President, Bay Area Urban Division, Lennar - October 3 Grazing, Grass and Gas Kristine Tompkins, Founder and President, Conservacion Patagonica, Former CEO, Patagonia Whendee Silver, Professor of Environmental Science, UC Berkeley Pete Geddes, Managing Director, American Prairie Reserve
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- October 15 The Bay Delta: A Grand Bargain? Bettina Boxall, Reporter, Los Angeles Times David Hayes, Former Deputy US Secretary of Interior Jay Lund, Director, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Kip Lipper, Chief Councilor for Energy and the Environment, Office of the Senate Pro Tempore - October 18 OPEC + 40 George Shultz, Former US Secretary of State Jim Woolsey, Former CIA Director - October 18 Carbon Gift Paul Hawken, Author and Entrepreneur Andy Revkin, Writer, The New York Times Dot Earth Blog - October 22 Mountain Meltdown Porter Fox, Editor, Powder Magazine; Author, The Deep: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow Anne Nolin, Professor, Geosciences and Hydroclimatology, Oregon State University Jeremy Jones, Founder and CEO, Protect our Winters; Professional Snowboarder Dave Brownlie, President and CEO, Whistler Blackcomb Mike Kaplan, President and CEO, Aspen/Snowmass Jerry Blann, President, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort - October 28 Blue Economy Jason Scorse, Director, Center for the Blue Economy, MIIS Mary Hagedorn, Research Scientist, Smithsonian Institution/ Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Michael Jones, President, The Maritime Alliance, San Diego - November 5 Fracked State: Powering California’s Future Fran Pavley, Senator, California State Senate Ann Notthoff, California Advocacy Director, NRDC Paul Deiro, Energy Lobbyist, KP Public Affairs
- November 7 US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell Sally Jewell, US Secretary of the Interior - November 14 Parched California Heather Cooley, Water Program Co-Director, The Pacific Institute Brandon Goshi, Manager of Water Policy and Strategy, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Lester Snow, Executive Director, California Water Foundation Bob Wilkinson, Adjunct Associate Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara - November 15 Graham Nash Graham Nash, Author, Wild Tales; Recording Artist - November 18 Ag and Trade Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Agriculture Michael Froman, US Trade Representative
- December 10 Skeptics and Smog Bud Ward, Editor, Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media Jim Hoggan, Co-Founder, DeSmog Blog Chair, The David Suzuki Foundation John Cook, Founder, Skeptical Science; Co-Author, Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand - December 12 Carbon Curves Jane Lubchenco, Former Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ben Santer, Climate Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - December 12 Stephen Schneider Award Nicholas Stern, Former World Bank Chief Economist, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
- December 2 Power Year in Review Lauren Faber, West Coast Political Director, Environmental Defense Fund Craig Miller, Science Editor, KQED Amy Myers Jaffe, Executive Director of Energy and Sustainability, UC Davis Andrew McAllister, Commissioner, California Energy Commission - December 4 Forest Wars Mike Korchinsky, Project Developer, REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation); Founder and CEO, Wildlife Works TJ DiCaprio, Senior Director, Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft Corporation Sissel Waage, Director of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services, Business for Social Responsibility
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