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energy economy environment to understand any of them you’ll need to understand them all
“We are proving up the case that we can have utility scale solar power in this country and the public lands are leading the way.” DAVID HAYES
Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Interior
“We have to do something that improves the habitat while at the same time producing the renewable energy.” JOHN LAIRD
Secretary, California Resources Agency
“The potential here is to have a result where the whole ecosystem is actually better off after development than before development.”
DAVID FESTA
West Coast Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund
“[Solar is] going to become a significant energy supply but it’s never going to supply 100 percent and even anything approaching that.”
MICHAEL HATFIELD
Director of Development, First Solar
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“Residential solar here in
“Investors who have been
“I would say that natural gas
California actually did pretty well during the recession.”
investing for a long time in renewable energy still see growth and they see a positive future.”
is cleaner than coal but it’s certainly not a renewable source of energy.”
DAVID BAKER
Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
CASSANDRA SWEET
Reporter, Dow Jones
DANA HULL
Reporter, San Jose Mercury News
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“[The CAFE standard] is the single biggest step in a generation to get our country off of oil and cut carbon pollution. This is a big deal.”
ROLAND HWANG
Director of Transportation Programs, NRDC
“The electric car companies and startup companies like ours are here to develop new products that now have a chance to exist because the demand is there, and now the regulation matches that demand.”
CHRIS PAULSON
VP of Strategy, Coda Automotive
“I believe that we can innovate our way out of our disasters, relying on the excellent technology that comes to the fore, if we can also get the policies and the incentives right.”
MARY NICHOLS
Chair, California Air Resources Board
“[The oil companies] don’t scratch our back and we’re not scratching theirs at all. We want to build cars and trucks that run on anything but petroleum.”
SHAD BALCH
Environment and Energy Communications, General Motors
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“We’re trying to apply a price to carbon, [which] means that the amount of money that we now spend on our fossil fuel generated energy does not reflect anything close to the actual cost of that energy.” MARK SCHAPIRO Journalist, Center for Investigative Reporting
“The price of resources is going up and it’s going to stay up.
And when that happens, you’re going to have to readjust your production profiles, your investment profiles and they [Brazil, China] are anticipating the fact that this is going to be the trend of the next 20 years which is already upon us.”
TOM HELLER Executive Director, Climate Policy Initiative; Professor, Stanford Law School
“China’s indication in Durban that they were ultimately going to be willing to take on some sort of cap probably by 2020 or something like that, is clearly the signal the world’s been waiting for.” MARC STUART
Co-Founder, EcoSecurities climate-one.org | 9
“The whole issue – is the climate
“No matter how environmentally better, how
changing, is the earth warning – went from being kind of mostly decided in the public place to being a political issue where people were still fighting about that basic question.”
much a particular power source is going to reduce carbon emission, reduce air particulates, reduce all the things that come with conventional power plants, there’s going to be somebody who doesn’t want it wherever it’s going to be placed.”
MARC LIFSHER
Reporter, Los Angeles Times
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FELICITY BARRINGER
Reporter, The New York Times
“The first time I was interviewed by the press, I was stunned with the following reaction, some guy says, ‘Do you believe in global warming?’ And I said, ‘Well yeah, I do.’ ...
“We want to be part of the solution.
We do not want to be part of the problem. We live in this country. I have grandchildren and children and I want them to inherit a better earth than we did, and I think quite frankly our generation, it was 1970, the EPA was put in the – the water and the air in this country is cleaner than it was when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s and I think it ought to be cleaner next year than it is today. We’re not going to get there for free.”
DAN AKERSON
Chairman and CEO, General Motors
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“Good concepts with local entrepreneurs only can find money from high flyer, venture capitalists, hedge funds, big banks, and we need to change this.”
MICHAEL SHUMAN
Author, Local Dollars Local Sense
“So many people crave tangible investments, things that they see where their money is going.” DAN ROSEN
Founder and CEO, Solar Mosaic
“Support your local community. say, this is our village.”
That’s what I always
ANDREW SWALLOW
Founder, Mixt Greens; Author, Mixt Salads: A Chef’s Bold Creations
“One challenge with water resource is very often that it is managing isolation, you know, according to the political boundaries, when actually has nothing to do with the water shed – the natural boundaries. And in many cases, nobody is really in charge of managing this resource.”
LAURENT AUGUSTE
CEO, Veolia Water Americas
“We’re not talking about water development. ... It’s water management. How do we more properly use the water that we have?”
JONAS MINTON
Water Policy Advisor, Planning and Conservation League
“Right
now the [water] policy is disconnected and I think the next 10 years is going to be about much more sophisticated general linkages between food and energy and water policy.”
JASON MORRISON
Program Director, Pacific Institute
“You don’t have to travel to help the world, and you can actually make a stronger impact when you stay in your community because you already know a network of people. ... Find something you’re passionate about and do it responsibly.”
“When young people speak up, people do listen.” ABIGAIL BORAH
Student, SustainUS.org
TANIA PULIDO
Green For All Fellow; Brower Youth Award winner
“What’s an issue that connects people regardless of race or gender or economic status? the connecting factor.”
Food; [it’s] really
ADARSHA SHIVAKUMAR
Stanford student, litigation plaintiff
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“In the energy space, a lot of
“Should the US or California
“What we want out of cap-
Americans believe that you can’t change policy at the national level, because big energy companies and their lobbyists control the system.”
be going its own way on climate change regulation without the rest of the world joining in?”
and-trade is cleaner air. We want good, clean energy jobs. We want to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.”
DONNIE FOWLER
LOREN KAYE
President, California Foundation for Commerce and Education
DAVE METZ
Pollster, FM3
Clean Tech Strategist
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“It’s exciting to me that there can be a disruptive startup company that’s trying to disrupt the car companies in general versus the large automakers creating their own EVs or just a little bit less disruptive and exciting.”
KATIE FEHRENBACHER
Senior Writer, GigaOM
“You can always pay more for more powerful batteries and that would give you the range you want but ultimately you want long range and cheaper batteries.”
UCILIA WANG
Contributor, Forbes
“[Tesla is] the one company that kind does get it; these are an emotional purchase and it’s not some dumbed down appliance you have to make really boring to get people to accept. Vehicles are all about passion in one way or another. They are about the emotional experience.”
CHELSEA SEXTON
Consulting Producer, Who Killed the Electric Car?
“[Young people] need to be empowered to know that they can actually take control of their destiny by voting. When you go buy a product, you are actually telling that company, ‘I support the way you make that product.’ ”
TOM VAN DYCK
Senior Vice President, RBC Wealth Management
“We should be saying, ‘Wow! Here’s a future we can clearly see we have resource constraints, meaning we have to use what we have more wisely.’ ... We have an energy story that just begs to be treated with the utmost care, respect and intelligence that we can bring to it. We have technologies right now that we can employ, that we’re not employing, and I think that really tells me that we just have a story that isn’t the right story.”
CHRIS MARTENSON
Futurist; Author, The Crash Course climate-one.org | 17
“ExxonMobil, the largest and most recalcitrant oil corporation headquartered in the United States, now says in public that the risks of global warming are so significant that even they agree a price on their own fuels is warranted for instant change.�
STEVE COLL
Author, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power; former Managing Editor, The Washington Post
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“We need an ignited America to be
“The way we’re gonna be the
“When you’re eating in season
demanding greener policy, products, politicians, presidents.”
most effective at cutting out carbon emissions is if each and every one of us finds the solutions that work for us, not necessarily the solutions that work for our neighbor.”
it’s more likely that the food is local, it’s more likely that it tastes better, and it’s more likely that it’s carbon friendly, climate friendly.”
BETSY ROSENBERG
Radio Host, On The Green Front
DAVID FRIEDMAN
Deputy Director, Union of Concerned Scientists
DIANA DONLON
Cool Foods Campaign Director, The Center For Food Safety
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“The closer you can
“We in California are
“To get to something
“Clean technology
link your clean tech company to an existing industry the better your chance of success in scaling up.”
in the midst of a great innovation boom.”
that is so ambitious as an 80% reduction, an 80% clean grid basically with low [natural] gas prices, is going to be terrific. It’s going to be really easy because as everybody knows, gas has half the emissions of coal.”
and renewables are bipartisan issues. They don’t have to be polarizing.”
MATT SCULLIN
Founder & CEO, Alphabet Energy, Inc.
DAN ADLER
President, California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF)
CATHY ZOI
Partner, Silver Lake Kraftwerk; former CEO, Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection
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JEFF BYRON
Vice Chair, Clean Tech Open; former Commissioner, California Energy Commission
“I think the issue isn’t how
“Efficiency is job one in
“As we as a society move
many people die from coal or how many people die from nuclear. It’s what’s smart, what makes economic sense?”
California, that’s the best thing to do. Renewables is job two. And then only clean generation is the third tier.”
to a cleaner, less emission, particularly lower carbon, environment, nuclear is right now the only base load source of electricity that produces electricity 24/7 and produces no greenhouse gases.”
JOE RUBIN
Reporter, Capital Public Radio/Center for Investigative Journalism
JIM BOYD
Former Commissioner, California Energy Commission
MARV FERTEL
CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute
“Carbon dioxide will go up unless we do something really drastic. And it’s not we, we can’t do it on our own, we have to get China involved. If China continues to add one new gigawatt of coal every week as they have been doing now for the last decade, if they continue doing that, whatever we do in the United States is irrelevant.”
RICHARD MULLER
Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley
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“This whole [energy conservation] movement is very un-empowering for people. And when people are unempowered and feel like they can’t take action, they develop a certain amount of cognitive dissidence so that they diminish the importance of that thing. So if you want people to take action, you actually want to empower them.”
CARRIE ARMEL
Researcher, Stanford; Co-Chair, Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference
“We have to take responsibility for separating out backward-looking blame with forward-looking responsibility.”
JON ELSE
Cinematographer, Last Call at the Oasis; Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley
“We’re driven by facts and by myths that are based [on and] explain the world, not simply strings of facts that tell us what we should do and how we should respond to the world around us.”
JONAH SACHS
Co-founder, Free Range Studios; Author, Story Wars
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“It’s been a very interesting and useful learning curve for my house and my family because now we’re really aware of what our overall energy usage is, and it’s kind of shifted how we think about overall energy usage. We wouldn’t have gone there if we didn’t have the EV.”
JOHN KALB
Founder, EV Charging Pros; Owner of a BMW ActiveE
“As you drive each year, your electric vehicle gets cleaner as the grid gets cleaner. ” ANDREA KISSACK
Senior Editor, Quest, KQED; Owner of a Nissan LEAF
“The really early adopters have mostly gotten their cars now. So the question is how we’re going to get to the early majority – when will we even get to them?”
FELIX KRAMER
Founder, CalCars; Owner of a Chevy Volt and Nissan LEAF
“Clean tech growth and clean tech jobs are nonpartisan.” NANCY PFUND
Managing Partner, DBL Investors
“Going from a few billion dollars to $90 billion in clean energy [is] orders of magnitude more than anybody has ever done about global warming.”
MICHAEL GRUNWALD
Senior National Correspondent, Time; Author, The New New Deal
“If the lighting [in an office
“We tell people all the time,
“When you think about how
building] is better and it feels better and the air is better and there’s no outgassing and you’re using less energy and everything just feels more natural and you’re a little more productive, people stay three minutes more a day, it pays for all – as if all the energy was free.”
you’re gonna get a very beautiful building, you’re gonna get it in a fraction of the time, and oh by the way, you know, it’s icing on the cake, that your utility bills can be lower.”
you optimize performance in the building, the very first part of the fight has to start with the environment. If you can work with the sun or the wind or the clouds and you can make smart decisions there, everything inside of that becomes much easier.”
KEVIN SURACE
Founder, Serious Energy
ANN HAND
CEO, Project Frog
GARY DILLABOUGH
Managing Partner, Westly Group
“All it takes is one new building driving the
“It’s not just the bricks and mortar and the
existing building portfolio to also gain LEED, because there’s no one more competitive than real estate. And that’s what I like about this business.”
mechanical systems, it’s how the building is operated over its life in service.”
PHIL WILLIAMS
MICHAEL DEANE
Chief Sustainability Officer, Turner Construction
Vice President, Webcor Builders
“Between
buildings that are beloved by the community and making buildings that 50, 60 years from now that those of us here will want to renew them.”
the market and the regulatory incentives and penalties, we’re seeing tremendous amounts of innovation that you wouldn’t have seen 20 years ago. ... The objective is to use our resources more intelligently.”
CRAIG HARTMAN
DAVID GENSLER
“I think that sustainability starts with making
Design Partner, SOM
Executive Director, Gensler
“[Clean energy is] a triple win because it’s a win for the environment, it’s a win for the economy, and it’s a win for quality of life.”
DENNIS McGINN
President, American Council on Renewable Energy
“[It is a] myth that Republicans don’t support renewable energy. And somehow, the political season has produced the fact that it’s the Democrats and the liberals who promote renewable energy and the Republicans are all hung up on oil and gas and all of that stuff. I’d like to get rid of that myth because what we’re really talking about is time and how to get it done. ”
JOHN BOHN
CEO, Renewable Energy Trust
“[Wind energy] is not about tree-hugging and Birkenstocks. These are real jobs, often – both installing but also manufacturing the wind components.”
CLINT WILDER
Author, Clean Tech Nation
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“The American people at some point have to take clean energy or climate from issue number 12 on their list and move it up to issue number two or three.”
DONNIE FOWLER
Founder and CEO, Dogpatch Strategies
“You burn carbon or hydrocarbons, you’re going to increase the level of CO2. That’s not a theory. That’s just very basic chemistry.”
BOB INGLIS
Former Republican U.S. Representative, South Carolina
“We’re not going fast enough. I think a lot of disruption, a lot of instability, a lot of droughts and unaccustomed events are in our future, unaccustomed weather events. I don’t think there’s anything now that one can do to avert that.”
BILL REILLY
Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
“If we’re going to price carbon, the question is, are we going to price it at a level where it will affect the behavior enough so that we actually really change what we’re doing because my strong belief is that we need to change much faster and in a much more urgent way than anybody is thinking about right now.”
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PROPOSITION F: SAN FRANCISCO HETCH HETCHY RESERVOIR INITIATIVE
“One-fifth of the energy in the state of California
“The [San Francisco Public Utilities Commission]
is spent pumping water. One-fifth of our energy. [O’Shaughnessy Dam] spends zero energy pumping water, and in fact, puts as 1.6 million kilowatts back to the system for good public purposes.”
has reached out to the restaurants, the hotels, and aggressively, in a nice way, to the residents basically saying, ‘Use less water. We’ll provide you incentives to use less.’”
JIM WUNDERMAN
CEO, Bay Area Council
“The customers are very important.
They need reliable water. They need reliable infrastructure.”
SPRECK ROSEKRANS
Director of Policy, Restore Hetch Hetchy
SUSAN LEAL
Former GM, SF Public Utilities Commission
“That’s what Prop F is.
It provides us the opportunity to impact environmental restoration projects around the world because at the end of the day, Yosemite is one of the most iconic places.”
MIKE MARSHALL
Executive Director, Restore Hetch Hetchy
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PROPOSITION 37: MANDATORY LABELING OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD
“This is a labeling law. This is not a ban. This
“If I’m a producer, and I don’t want to have a label
is not requiring food companies to change their ingredients or to reformulate their products. If they choose to do that, it’s in response to consumers.”
on my product, I’m going to have to reconstitute my food and my product, and I’m going to aggregate cost to that product. I’m going to pass that on to the consumer.”
JESSICA LUNDBERG
Lundberg Family Farms
JESUS ARREDONDO
Founder, Advantage Government Consulting LLC
“The future of food is in California.
“The genetic engineering of the future is going to be targeted
And that future, critically, requires a right to know – transparency.”
toward the problems we really have: climate change, high temperature, drought, nitrogen use. These are big, big, big issues. And what you’re voting on here is an opportunity to stigmatize an entire technology.”
KEN COOK
President, Environmental Working Group
KENT BRADFORD
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“Our job is not to figure out how to keep the
“If we cannot get off the internal combustion
fossil fuel industry going with some other fossil fuel that’s marginally better. Our job is to figure out how to provide the energy that people need in ways that will allow the planet to keep working.”
engine, with all the technology that we have available to us, shame on us.”
BILL MCKIBBEN
Founder, 350.org; Author, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
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JOHN HOFMEISTER
CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy; Former President, Shell Oil Company
“We focus so much on
“I don’t believe that facts are
“It’s really a tragedy that
climate change as an issue of science or an issue of policy or economics, you know, cost-benefit analysis, but, you know, not often enough do we frame it for the issue that it really is ultimately. It’s an issue of our ethical obligation.”
enough. This is not necessarily an issue of facts, it’s an issue about fear. There’s an enormous amount of fear that we are dealing with an issue where the impacts are distant and far away, but the solutions are imminent and people fear them as being very costly and that they are infringing on our freedom, our economy, and our rights.”
[global warming] has become so politicized because, whether you like it or not, [forest] fires burn homes, whether they’re Democrats or Republicans, and the climate system doesn’t care.”
MICHAEL MANN
Professor of Geosciences, Penn State; Author, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
KATHARINE HAYHOE
WILLIAM ANDEREGG
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
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“If we continue on this path with CO , we’ll get to a 2
point where it’s really consequences are too great and very difficult and are impossible for our children to deal with without having great disaster.”
JAMES HANSEN
Head, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University’s Earth Institute; Author, Storms of My Grandchildren
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“I would say that some of the
“Everybody wants clean air.
“We try to bring faith and
best scientists are Christians, who are religious leaders themselves. I have always understood that religion and science do not have a conflict, but rather, scientists are partners with all of humankind to understand the beautiful world that God has created in the first place.”
We want a healthy environment for our children. Once enough people recognize that this is a problem, we will make the changes we need to make. Individual actions matter.”
science together and to show that there’s not a conflict, especially when the leaders of world religions are being vocal about the need to protect the Earth.”
REV. DONALD NG
First Chinese Baptist Church, San Francisco
REV. SALLY BINGHAM
Founder, Interfaith Power and Light
RABBI YONATAN NERIL
Founder and Executive Director, Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, Jerusalem
“Climate is something that
“We will have tens or hundreds
happens over a long time, and it’s an accumulation of numbers, patterns of experience. But air is something that we’re all inhaling 15 to 20 times a minute all the time. It’s a living substance. It’s part of our lives all the time. And the core of this issue is about the air changing.”
of millions of people who will be displaced [due to rising sea levels] especially those in developing countries who don’t have the means will essentially be homeless; over the course of decades there will be these massive population shifts.”
JAMES BALOG
Founder, Extreme Ice Survey; Author, ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers
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JON SHENK
Cinematographer, The Island President
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Greg on his Alaska 2011 trip with the Commonwealth Club
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 energy, economy and the environment. We produce the only regular public radio and TV show on a broad range of climate issues with senior leaders from business, government, and civil society. In 2012, nearly 4,000 people attended 32 events featuring 88 experts. Climate One is about all of us. Thank you for being a vital part of it.
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In Memoriam
Peter Voll 1943-2013
A lifelong advocate of experiential and transformational travel, Peter Voll was intimately involved in the creation and development of the 2007 Arctic voyage that gave birth to Climate One. Here he is pictured on that Commonwealth Club trip in front of reindeer on Wrangel Island, a rarely visited UNESCO Heritage Site in the Arctic Circle. He was a consummate professional, gentleman, and devoted member of The Commonwealth Club travel committee.
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Index of Speakers and Programs – January 30 – Sun Spots David Hayes, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Interior John Laird, Secretary, California Resources Agency David Festa, West Coast Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund Michael Hatfield, Director of Development, First Solar – February 3 – Power Plays: Media Roundtable David Baker, Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle Dana Hull, Reporter, San Jose Mercury News Cassandra Sweet, Reporter, Dow Jones – February 13 – Cruising 55 Shad Balch, Environment and Energy Communications, General Motors Roland Hwang, Director of Transportation Programs, NRDC Mary Nichols, Chair, California Air Resources Board Chris Paulson, VP of Strategy, Coda Automotive – February 29 – From Durban to Rio Tom Heller, Executive Director, Climate Policy Initiative; Professor, Stanford Law School Marc Stuart, Co-Founder, EcoSecurities Mark Schapiro, Senior Correspondent, Center for Investigative Reporting – March 2 – Covering Carbon Felicity Barringer, Reporter, The New York Times Marc Lifsher, Reporter, Los Angeles Times
– March 7 – GM CEO Dan Akerson Dan Akerson, Chairman and CEO, General Motors – March 23 – Going Local Dan Rosen, Founder and CEO, Solar Mosaic Michael Shuman, Author, Local Dollars Local Sense Andrew Swallow, Founder, Mixt Greens; Author, Mixt Salads: A Chef’s Bold Creations – March 26 – Speaking Youth to Power Abigail Borah, student, SustainUS.org Tania Pulido, Green For All Fellow; Brower Youth Award winner Adarsha Shivakumar, Stanford student, litigation plaintiff – March 29 – Water World Laurent Auguste, CEO, Veolia Water Americas Jonas Minton, Water Policy Advisor, Planning and Conservation League Jason Morrison, Program Director, Pacific Institute – April 3 – The Island President Screening and Discussion Jon Shenk, Director, The Island President – April 19 – Power Poll Donnie Fowler, Clean Tech Strategist Loren Kaye, President, California Foundation for Commerce and Education Dave Metz, Pollster, FM3
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– April 23 – Covering Electric Cars Chelsea Sexton, EV advocate, Who Killed the Electric Car? Katie Fehrenbacher, Senior Writer, GigaOM Ucilia Wang, Contributor, Forbes – April 24 – Crash Course Chris Martenson, Futurist; Author, The Crash Course Tom Van Dyck, Senior Vice President, RBC Wealth Management – May 8 – ExxonMobil and American Power Steve Coll, Author, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power; former Managing Editor, The Washington Post – May 21 – Green Myths Busted Diana Donlon, Cool Foods Campaign Director, The Center For Food Safety David Friedman, Deputy Director, Union of Concerned Scientists Betsy Rosenberg, Radio Host, On The Green Front – June 4 – Innovation Power Dan Adler, President, California Clean Energy Fund Jeff Byron, Vice Chair, Clean Tech Open; former Commissioner, California Energy Commission Matt Scullin, Founder & CEO, Alphabet Energy, Inc. Cathy Zoi, Partner, Silver Lake Kraftwerk; former CEO, Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection – June 11 – Nuclear Revival? Jim Boyd, Former Commissioner, California Energy Commission Marv Fertel, CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute Joe Rubin, Reporter, Capital Public Radio/Center for Investigative Journalism
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– June 21 – Skeptical Climate Science Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley – July 10 – Story Wars Carrie Armel, Researcher, Stanford; Co-Chair, Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference Jon Else, Cinematographer, Last Call at the Oasis; Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley Jonah Sachs, Co-founder, Free Range Studios; Author, Story Wars – August 20 – EV Riders John Kalb, Founder, EV Charging Pros; Owner of a BMW ActiveE Andrea Kissack, Senior Editor, Quest, KQED; Owner of a Nissan LEAF Felix Kramer, Founder, CalCars; Owner of a Chevy Volt and Nissan LEAF – September 7 – Green Buildings: Building Innovation Gary Dillabough, Managing Partner, Westly Group Ann Hand, CEO, Project Frog Kevin Surace, Founder, Serious Energy Green Buildings: Building Green Cities David Gensler, Executive Director, Gensler Craig Hartman, Design Partner, SOM Michael Deane, Chief Sustainability Officer, Turner Construction Phil Williams, Vice President, Webcor Builders – September 17 – Green New Deal Michael Grunwald, Senior National Correspondent, Time; Author, The New New Deal Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner, DBL Investors
– September 28 – Clean Money Dennis McGinn, President, American Council on Renewable Energy Clint Wilder, Author, Clean Tech Nation John Bohn, CEO, Renewable Energy Trust – October 9 – Energy and the Election Donnie Fowler, Founder and CEO, Dogpatch Strategies Bob Inglis, Former Republican U.S. Representative, South Carolina Bill Reilly, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tom Steyer, Managing Partner, Farallon Capital – October 15 – Tear Down that Dam? Susan Leal, Former General Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Mike Marshall, Executive Director, Restore Hetch Hetchy Spreck Rosekrans, Director of Policy, Restore Hetch Hetchy Jim Wunderman, CEO, Bay Area Council – October 25 – GMO: Label or Not? Jesus Arredondo, Principal and Founder, Advantage Government Consulting LLC Kent Bradford, Director of the Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group Jessica Lundberg, Lundberg Family Farms
– November 23 – Chasing Ice Screening and Discussion James Balog, Director of Time-Lapse and Still Photography, Chasing Ice; Author, Extreme Ice Now: Vanishing Glaciers and Changing Climate – December 4 – James Hansen: The Stephen Schneider Award Part 1: Political Science Bill Anderegg, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University Katharine Hayhoe, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas Tech University Michael Mann, Professor of Geosciences, Penn State; Author, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars Part 2: James Hansen: The Stephen Schneider Climate Science Communication Award James Hansen, Head, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University’s Earth Institute; Author, Storms of My Grandchildren – December 12 – Congregation Power Reverend Sally Bingham, Founder, Interfaith Power and Light Rabbi Yonatan Neril, Founder and Executive Director, Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, Jerusalem Reverend Donald Ng, First Chinese Baptist Church, San Francisco
– November 9 – Carbon Math Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org, Author, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet John Hofmeister, CEO, Citizens for Affordable Energy; Former President, Shell Oil Company
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