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One Planet: What’s the path to a clean energy future?

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On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, we’ll have a conversation with Stanford University’s Mark Jacobson about what it will take to shift to renewable sources of power.

He says there is no technical or economic barrier to transitioning the entire world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy covering all sectors including transportation, agriculture, and electricity. What’s the path to a clean energy future?

Guest:

Mark Jacobson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Woods Institute for the Environment, and co-founder of The Solutions Project

Web Resources:

Solutions Project

The Guardian: The American people – not Big Oil – must decide our climate future

Stanford News: Stanford engineers develop a new method of keeping the lights on if the world turns to 100% clean, renewable energy

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASzeS9yrTI

 

 

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.