Sustainable Future Speaker Series ~ Feb 6

February 3, 2014
Dear colleagues and friends,

We are very pleased to welcome Adam Browning of Vote Solar as the first speaker in the spring 2014 Sustainable Futures speaker series. Adam will speak on Thursday, February 6 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm in Science B room 135 (SciB 135) on the HSU campus. The title of his talk is “Solar Market Development in the US: Theory, Practice, and Prognostications.”

Adam is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Vote Solar Initiative, a non- profit organization with the mission of bringing solar energy into the mainstream. Vote Solar got its start with a successful ballot initiative for a $100 million solar revenue bond in San Francisco in 2001, and since then has been working with state and municipal governments on pro-solar policies with the goal of jump starting the national transition to renewable energy. Vote Solar has 10 advocates spread across the country, working full-time to advance solar markets. Prior to Vote Solar, Adam spent eight years with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s San Francisco office, where he won the Agency’s top pollution prevention award for developing a program that reduced air emissions of mercury. Adam received a BA with Distinction from Swarthmore College in 1992 and served with the Peace Corps in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa.
California is a leader in solar technology adoption, and Vote Solar deserves considerable credit for its advocacy work over the past decade. If you are interested in the politics of solar power adoption, you should not miss this talk.

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