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Transitioning California and the World to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything
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Transitioning California and the World to 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything
Please join the League of Women Voters of Piedmont on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. to hear Dr. Mark Z. Jacobson a Stanford scientist who has transitioned to fossil-free living personally, and also happens to be a global expert on the technologies and policies that can deliver us from fossil pollution.
When: Wednesday, April 5th, 2023 at 4pm PT (5pm MT | 6pm CT | 7pm ET)
Where: Online via Zoom. Register for free to receive an email with the Zoom link. [note: if you are not an LWV Piedmont member, you do not need to log in]
Fellow Bay Area resident and Stanford professor, Mark Jacobson has fully electrified his home. He is also one of the most influential thought leaders advising cities, states and nations on the most effective policies and mechanisms to make the transition to 100% clean, renewable energy. Learn how to make this transition happen in your own life!
This event is cosponsored by the Leagues of Women Voters of Solano County, CA and Portland, OR and is part of our 2022-23 Climate Speaker Series brought to you by the League of Women Voters of Piedmont and Piedmont Connect. The series will serve to educate constituents on a range of important topics to improve our understanding of the causes (sometimes surprising), perils (sometimes not fully recognized), and solutions to ongoing environmental pollution and climate disruptions.
This program will be recorded. You can watch it live or at a later date on our YouTube channel. The second half of the program will be a moderated Q&A session with questions from Zoom participants and YouTube livestream viewers. You will not see the event posted ahead of time on YouTube. It will appear once the program starts at 4pm Pacific Time on April 5th.
More about our speaker:
Mark Z. Jacobson is Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment and of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering, an A.B. in Economics, and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Stanford in 1988. He received an M.S. and PhD in Atmospheric Sciences in 1991 and 1994, respectively, from UCLA and joined the faculty at Stanford in 1994. His career focuses on better understanding air pollution and global warming problems and developing large-scale clean, renewable energy solutions to them. He has published six textbooks and over 175 peer-reviewed journal articles.
He received the 2005 American Meteorological Society Henry G. Houghton Award and the 2013 American Geophysical Union Ascent Award for his work on black carbon climate impacts and the 2013 Global Green Policy Design Award for developing state and country energy plans. In 2015, he received a Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for his work on the grid integration of 100% wind, water and solar energy systems. In 2018, he received the Judi Friedman Lifetime Achievement Award “For a distinguished career dedicated to finding solutions to large-scale air pollution and climate problems.” In 2019 and 2022, he was selected as “one of the world’s 100 most influential people in climate policy” by Apolitical. In 2022, he received the Visionary Clean Tech Influencer of the Year award at the World Clean Tech Awards.
He has served on an advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, appeared in a TED talk, appeared on the David Letterman Show to discuss converting the world to clean energy, and cofounded The Solutions Project nonprofit. His work is the scientific basis of the energy portion of the U.S. Green New Deal and laws to go to 100% renewable energy in cities, states, and countries worldwide.
This event is co-sponsored by LWV of Solano County and LWV of Portland, Oregon and is part of our 2022-23 Climate Speaker Series brought to you by the League of Women Voters of Piedmont and Piedmont Connect.
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