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Hixon Center Black, Gold & Green Speaker Series: “The Clean Energy Transformation: Evolution or Revolution?” Daniel Kammen

March 1, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

The global tran­si­tion to clean energy is both well under­way and well behind sched­ule if we are to achieve a sus­tain­able cli­mate, let alone use this moment of change to build a more equi­table, inclu­sive soci­ety for the 21st cen­tury. What are the sci­en­tific and tech­ni­cal must-​​have inno­va­tions and tech­nolo­gies for this process, and where must we develop a dra­mat­i­cally dif­fer­ent social com­pact within and between com­mu­ni­ties to achieve this chal­leng­ing but nec­es­sary goal? We will exam­ine the sci­ence and inno­va­tion base that exists today, and what is needed for this grand chal­lenge. The crit­i­cal role of infor­ma­tion sys­tems and social change will be fea­tured as great­est chal­lenge to this process.

Daniel M. Kam­men is pro­fes­sor of energy at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley, with par­al­lel appoint­ments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Gold­man School of Pub­lic Pol­icy and the depart­ment of Nuclear Engi­neer­ing. He was appointed by for­mer Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Clin­ton in April 2010 as the first energy fel­low of the new Envi­ron­ment and Cli­mate Part­ner­ship for the Amer­i­cas initiative.

In 2016, he began ser­vice as the Sci­ence Envoy for U.S. Sec­re­tary of State John Kerry.

Kam­men is the found­ing direc­tor of the Renew­able and Appro­pri­ate Energy Lab­o­ra­tory and was direc­tor of the Trans­porta­tion Sus­tain­abil­ity Research Cen­ter from 2007–2015. He has served the State of Cal­i­for­nia and U.S. fed­eral gov­ern­ment in expert and advi­sory capac­i­ties, includ­ing time at the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, Depart­ment of Energy, the Agency for Inter­na­tional Devel­op­ment (USAID) and the Office of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy Policy.

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Date:
March 1, 2017
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

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Shanahan Center, Shanahan Auditorium (1430)
320 E. Foothill Blvd, Claremont, 91711 United States
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Phone:
9909-607-7623
Website:
https://www.hmc.edu/calendar/events/hixon-center-black-gold-green-speaker-series-the-science-and-policy-of-a-clean-energy-economy/
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