Agenda
Moderators:
Mary Fischer, Manager, Office of Sustainability, Brandeis University
Prof. James Ji, Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Environmental Economics, Brandeis University
5:00 - 5:10 pm Welcome to the Power Dialogue - Solve Climate by 2030
Eban Goodstein, Director, Graduate Programs in Sustainability / Bard College (via video)
5:10 - 5:45 pm Climate Solutions Panel
Local climate leaders in Massachusetts will each discuss an ambitious but feasible solution to move us toward solving climate by 2030.
Panelists
Alli Gold Roberts, Director, State Policy, Ceres
Alli Gold Roberts leads Ceres' state policy efforts to mobilize investor and company support for stronger climate and clean energy policies. Through her outreach, Alli leverages the influential voice of the business community to advance renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean transportation, and to improve corporations' access to clean energy.
Dr. Nathan Phillips, Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University
Nathan Phillips, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy, is Professor in the Department of Earth and Environment and Acting Director of the Sustainable Neighborhood Lab. His research focuses on physiological mechanisms that regulate water, carbon, and energy exchanges between plants/ecosystems and the environment, especially in the context of environmental change. Most recently, Dr. Phillips made headlines by going on a hunger strike to protest a natural gas compressor station in Weymouth, MA that will provide a link between major pipelines and the Atlantic Ocean. His activism put the spotlight on environmental justice and has made him a local hero.
Eben Bein, Climate Solutions Educator & New England Field Coordinator, Our Climate
Six years into his biology teaching career Eben realized he could no longer just work with students on climate solutions on the side. To #MakeClimateAClass, he became the New England Field Coordinator for the youth-led nonprofit Our Climate, where he applies his teaching and writing skills to empower young people to lobby their legislators for science-based, equitable climate policy. Eben grew up in an environmentally-mind cohousing community in Acton, MA and earned a B.A. in biology and teaching certificate from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in Science Writing from MIT. He taught high school biology and for six years, mostly at Revere High School in Revere, MA and Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, NH. He has written about science and environmental solutions for the likes of YES! Magazine, NOVA PBS, and The Atlantic. When he isn’t happily obsessing over his work, Eben might be writing poetry, doing yoga, singing with his rock bands, or sautéing leafy greens with cracked pepper in gratuitous amounts of olive oil. FB/T: @beinology
5:45 - 6:00 pm Panel Discussion & Q&A
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