Climate Solutions: Scaling Impacts
Please join us for a new four-part season of virtual talks on scaling up climate solutions from the Bay Area to the state, country, and globe. Acterra aims to provide quality online content to enlighten and inspire our action-oriented community. Zoom webinar links will be provided upon registration. Each talk is approximately 40 min followed by a question and answer period.
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Bruce Hodge
Mass Beneficial Electrification: The Challenge Ahead
February 17, 4:30 pm PST
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Bruce Hodge is an environmental activist, fine art photographer, and computer scientist. He founded Carbon Free Palo Alto in 2011 and played a crucial role in convincing the City of Palo Alto to provide carbon neutral energy to all utilities customers. Since then, he’s worked to keep Palo Alto in the vanguard of cities striving to implement a low-carbon energy future by focusing on strategies such as community solar and environmentally beneficial electrification.
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Regina Wallace-Jones
Think Globally... Act Locally: EPA, the Little City that Could!
March 17, 4:30 pm PDT
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Regina Wallace-Jones is the Senior Vice President of Product & Engineering at Mindbody Inc. In 2018, Regina was elected to East Palo Alto City Council and served as Mayor of the city. Her commitment to helping residents be resilient to climate impacts is illustrated in her service as an advisor to the East Palo Alto Climate Change Community Team and the Advisory Board of Climate Resilient Communities. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and a Masters from UCLA in Public Policy.
Introduction by Violet Wulf-Saena, an international climate change expert for over 10 years and the director of Climate Resilient Communities, an organization dedicated to lifting the Peninsula's underrepresented communities.
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Julia Zeitlin
Youth Voices in the Climate Movement
April 14, 4:30 pm PDT
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Julia Zeitlin is a 14-year-old climate activist, organizer, and leader in the Bay Area. She founded the Sunrise Palo Alto Hub in 2019 and later co-founded and expanded the Silicon Valley Sunrise Hub. A member of the Palo Alto Youth Council, Julia is currently working on a Task Force with the Sustainability Office of Palo Alto on their new Sustainability and Climate Action Plan. The Sunrise Movement has garnered international attention for its extensive mobilization of youth and many campaign successes, including making the Green New Deal a familiar household term.
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Nitesh Dullabh
Sustainability and Accelerating Organizational Purpose, Performance and Impact with the UN SDGs and ESGs
May 26, 4:30 pm PDT
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Nitesh Dullabh has expertise on sustainability, Environmental, Social & Governance issues (ESG) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and socio-economic businesses in the public and private sector. He served as South Africa’s economic attaché in Beijing and Shanghai for almost 4 years. In the US, Nitesh is currently involved in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ESG road maps with companies, engaging businesses both locally and internationally.
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Lecture Series Underwriters
Mary & Clinton Gilliland
Armand & Eliane Neukermans
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