Mark Jacobson, The Solutions Project

Wednesday June 18, 6pm EDT: Continuing an ongoing theme of A Better World Radio regarding establishing an economy based on renewable energy sources and thereby significantly reducing our carbon footprint, Mitchell’s guest this evening is Stanford Professor, co-creator of The Solutions Project, Mark Jacobson.

Mark 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 Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy.

He received the 2005 American Meteorological Society Henry G. Houghton Award for “significant contributionsto modeling aerosol chemistry and to understanding the role of soot and other carbon particles on climate,” the 2013 American Geophysical Union Ascent Award for “his dominating role in the development of models to identify the role of black carbon in climate change,” and the Global

Green Policy Design Award for the “design of analysis and policy framework to envision a future powered by renewable energy.”
He co-authored a 2009 cover article in Scientific American on how to power the world with renewable energy, served on the Energy Efficiency and Renewables

Advisory Committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, and recently appeared on the David Letterman Show to discuss converting the world to clean energy.

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