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SUMMARY:U.S. Climate Policy in the Biden Administration
DESCRIPTION:*Note: This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom and on the Energy Institute’s YouTube channel. See access details after the bio. \nJoin this timely discussion with Noah Kaufman as he explores the current climate policy landscape in the United States.  It starts with an overview of the challenges\, including emissions sources and technology and policy pathways to deep decarbonization. Then\, it highlights important recent trends that influence the policy landscape. Finally\, it will describe prospects for climate action in 2021 once President-Elect Joe Biden takes office and a new session of Congress gets underway. \nBio: Dr. Noah Kaufman is a Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy SIPA. He is an economist\, leads research focused on climate change policies\, and teaches a course on Energy Decarbonization. Under President Obama\, Noah served as the Deputy Associate Director of Energy & Climate Change at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Noah received his BS in economics from Duke University\, and his PhD and MS in economics from the University of Texas at Austin\, where his dissertation examined optimal policy responses to climate change. \nNote: This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom Webinar and on the Energy Institute’s YouTube channel. If using Zoom\, viewers must register for an account with Zoom and log in to Zoom using that registration in order to use the meeting link and participate. Faculty\, students and staff of UT\, please use your personal UT Zoom account. \nPlease click the Zoom link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://utexas.zoom.us/s/91742797303 \nTo view the talk on YouTube\, there are two options: \n\nClick: https://www.youtube.com/user/utenergyinstitute/ to take you to the HOME page of the Energy Institute’s YouTube page.\n\nThe Webinar will be listed as a video thumbnail with the word “LIVE NOW” in the window. Click on that thumbnail. \n\nClick: https://www.youtube.com/user/utenergyinstitute/videos\n\nThen if needed\, select the “Live Streams” option next to “All Videos”.  The Webinar will be listed as a video thumbnail with the word “LIVE NOW” in the window. Click on that thumbnail to watch the video. \nIf you do not see the video with either of the options above\, the webinar might not be yet started.  Also\, you might need to refresh your browser to see the option for the live video.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/u-s-climate-policy-in-the-biden-administration/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Climate\, Complexity and the Politics of Major Regulatory Legislation
DESCRIPTION:*Note: This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom and on the Energy Institute’s YouTube channel. See access details after the bio. \nBio: Dr. David Spence is Baker Botts Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law and Professor of Business\, Government and Society at the McCombs School of Business.  His teaching and research concern regulatory law and politics\, particularly the regulation of the energy industry. He is one of the founders of the web site “EnergyTradeoffs.com\,” which features research addressing the difficult tradeoffs and value choices associated with the green energy transition. \nAbstract: Transitioning to net zero carbon emissions by mid-century requires a policy push\, which makes it a political task. That task entails some win-win opportunities\, but it also entails a series of complex tradeoffs and value choices. Making those kinds of collective choices is always difficult and tends to happen only when Congress can assemble strong majorities in favor of major regulatory legislation.  However\, that is difficult in an environment in which deep partisan polarization and modern media push Americans into different realities that impede the search for common ground and compromise in Congress. The best hope for legislation lies in (a) building stronger Democratic majorities in Congress over time\, and (b) not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good in the meantime. \nNote: This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom Webinar and on the Energy Institute’s YouTube channel. If using Zoom\, viewers must register for an account with Zoom and log in to Zoom using that registration in order to use the meeting link and participate. Faculty\, students and staff of UT\, please use your personal UT Zoom account. \nPlease click the Zoom link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://utexas.zoom.us/s/91742797303 \nTo view the talk on YouTube\, there are two options: \n\nClick: https://www.youtube.com/user/utenergyinstitute/ to take you to the HOME page of the Energy Institute’s YouTube page.\n\nThe Webinar will be listed as a video thumbnail with the word “LIVE NOW” in the window. Click on that thumbnail. \n\nClick: https://www.youtube.com/user/utenergyinstitute/videos\n\nThen if needed\, select the “Live Streams” option next to “All Videos”.  The Webinar will be listed as a video thumbnail with the word “LIVE NOW” in the window. Click on that thumbnail to watch the video. \nIf you do not see the video with either of the options above\, the webinar might not be yet started.  Also\, you might need to refresh your browser to see the option for the live video.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/climate-complexity-and-the-politics-of-major-regulatory-legislation/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Guest Speaker
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SUMMARY:The Green New Deal & the Role of Public Investment in an Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:*Note: This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom and on the Energy Institute’s YouTube channel. See access details after the bio. \nBio: Demond Drummer is co-founder and executive director of New Consensus. He is an organizer and civic innovator whose grassroots work in Chicago has been recognized by the Obama Administration\, Code for America and the Aspen Institute. \nAbstract: New Consensus is a think tank that aims to solve problems like climate change\, economic stagnation\, racial and rural wealth gaps\, and more by proposing solutions modeled after mass economic mobilizations of the past.  New consensus thinkers are exploring how government and other public institutions can lead the transition to a green economy\, close wealth and income gaps between groups\, spearhead innovation and research\, kick-start new high wage industries\, and more. \nJoin Demond Drummer\, Co-Founder & Executive Director of New Consensus\, in his pre-election conversation with Dr. Carey King as they discuss the challenges of reaching New Consensus’ goals while remaining non-partisan\, making effective use of government capabilities\, and directly confronting important tradeoffs (equity\, environment/energy\, economy) rather than using these tradeoffs to foster division (e.g.\, your energy technology/policy hurts poor people). \nNote: This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom Webinar and on the Energy Institute’s YouTube channel. If using Zoom\, viewers must register for an account with Zoom and log in to Zoom using that registration in order to use the meeting link and participate. Faculty\, students and staff of UT\, please use your personal UT Zoom account. \nPlease click the Zoom link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://utexas.zoom.us/s/91742797303 \nTo view the talk on YouTube\, there are two options: \n\nClick: https://www.youtube.com/user/utenergyinstitute/ to take you to the HOME page of the Energy Institute’s YouTube page.\n\nThe Webinar will be listed as a video thumbnail with the word “LIVE NOW” in the window. Click on that thumbnail. \n\nClick: https://www.youtube.com/user/utenergyinstitute/videos\n\nThen if needed\, select the “Live Streams” option next to “All Videos”.  The Webinar will be listed as a video thumbnail with the word “LIVE NOW” in the window. Click on that thumbnail to watch the video. \nIf you do not see the video with either of the options above\, the webinar might not be yet started.  Also\, you might need to refresh your browser to see the option for the live video.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/the-green-new-deal-the-role-of-public-investment-in-an-energy-transition/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:EVs: How Fast is the EVolution Coming\, and What Should Texas Do About It?
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Join this talk by Tom “Smitty” Smith\, a prominent consumer and renewable energy advocate in Texas. He will introduce the Texas Electric Transportation Alliance (TxETRA) and how it is helping to enable a pathway to increased electric vehicle (EV) usage. Mr. Smith will examine questions such as: Why are EVs becoming the vehicle of the future? How fast will they be coming? What are the big policy questions? How is Texas addressing these challenges? \nBackground: Tom “Smitty” Smith is currently the executive director of the Texas Electric Transportation Alliance (TxETRA)\, an alliance of vehicle manufacturers\, dealers\, utilities\, environmentalists and consumer groups that are working together to develop and promote the policies needed to electrify the Texas transportation system. Mr. Smith retired in 2017 as director of Public Citizen’s Texas office\, one of the state’s most respected consumer\, environmental\, energy and ethics advocacy organizations\, after leading the office since 1985. He is best known for helping to start Texas’ renewable energy boom and for the creation of the Texas Emissions Reduction Program\, which reduced cancer-causing diesel pollution. Read Mr. Smith’s full bio here. \nUT Energy Symposium will be hosted virtually via Zoom and YouTube for the Fall 2020 semester.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/evs-how-fast-is-the-evolution-coming-and-what-should-texas-do-about-it/
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SUMMARY:Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
DESCRIPTION:Bio: Leah Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Department at the University of California\, Santa Barbara (UCSB). \nDr. Stokes works on energy\, climate and environmental politics. Within American Politics\, her work focuses on representation and public opinion; voting behavior; and public policy\, particularly at the state level. Within environmental politics\, she researches climate change\, renewable energy\, water and chemicals policy. Her research has been published in top journals including the American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, British Journal of Political Science\, Nature Energy\, Energy Policy\, and Environmental Science & Technology. Dr. Stokes has also published articles in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, CNN and elsewhere. She is frequently quoted in national media. \nDr. Stokes completed her PhD in Public Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning’s Environmental Policy & Planning group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also received a masters from MIT’s Political Science Department. Before that\, she completed an MPA in Environmental Science & Policy at the School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Dr. Stokes has a BSc in Psychology and East Asian Studies from the University of Toronto. Prior to academia\, she worked at the Parliament of Canada and Resources for the Future. \nAbstract: In 1999\, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law\, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy\, however\, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas\, which failed to implement its solar laws or clean up its electricity system. Examining clean energy laws in Texas\, Kansas\, Arizona\, and Ohio over a thirty-year time frame\, Stokes argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why states are not on track to address the climate crisis. She tells the political history of our energy institutions\, explaining how fossil fuel companies and electric utilities have promoted climate denial and delay. Stokes further explains the limits of policy feedback theory\, showing the ways that interest groups drive retrenchment through lobbying\, public opinion\, political parties and the courts. More than a history of renewable energy policy in modern America\, Short Circuiting Policy offers a bold new argument about how the policy process works\, and why seeming victories can turn into losses when the opposition has enough resources to roll back laws. \nNote: This talk will be presented remotely via Zoom Webinar and on the Energy Institute’s YouTube channel. If using Zoom\, viewers must register for an account with Zoom and log in to Zoom using that registration in order to use the meeting link and participate. Faculty\, students and staff of UT\, please use your personal UT Zoom account. \nPlease click the Zoom link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://utexas.zoom.us/j/98044881892 \nTo view the talk on YouTube\, there are two options: \n\nClick: https://www.youtube.com/user/utenergyinstitute/ to take you to the HOME page of the Energy Institute’s YouTube page.\n\nThe Webinar will be listed as a video thumbnail with the word “LIVE NOW” in the window. Click on that thumbnail. \n\nClick: https://www.youtube.com/user/utenergyinstitute/videos\n\nThen if needed\, select the “Live Streams” option next to “All Videos”.  The Webinar will be listed as a video thumbnail with the word “LIVE NOW” in the window. Click on that thumbnail to watch the video. \nIf you do not see the video with either of the options above\, the webinar might not be yet started.  Also\, you might need to refresh your browser to see the option for the live video.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/interest-groups-and-the-battle-over-clean-energy-and-climate-policy-in-the-american-states/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Panel Conversation with Artist Victor Pérez-Rul
DESCRIPTION:The University of Texas Energy Institute is hosting the following free event – \nWorld-renowned artist Victor Pérez-Rul will hold a conversation panel at the Energy Institute about his new installation Placeholder. Pérez-Rul focuses on merging the movements of humans\, sun and wind in order to transform solar and kinetic energy into art. \nCurrently\, Pérez-Rul is the University of Texas Visual Arts Center’s artist-in-residence. During his time at the University he has focused on working in concert with students from the schools of art\, physics\, engineering\, architecture and design. Pérez-Rul’s Placeholder will be on exhibit fromSeptember 23-December 10. \nThis event is free and open to the public. It will be held at the Flawn Academic Center in Room 430.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/panel-conversation-with-artist-victor-perez-rul/
LOCATION:Flawn Academic Center\, 2304 Whitis Ave #338\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Robinson Reading
DESCRIPTION:From the University of Texas at Austin –\nScience Fiction writer and thinker Kim Stanley Robinson reads from his fiction and discusses how science fiction can represent environmental issues. Presented by UT Austin Department of English and Texas Institute for Literary & Textual Studies (TILTS): Environmental Humanities. \nRobinson is one of the most well­-known and respected science fiction writers in the world\, with a reality ­based approach in the spirit of Isaac Asimov that has made him a social thinker speaking “for the future and from the future.” \nHis work has received 11 major awards from the science fiction field\, and has been translated into 23 languages. His Mars trilogy (Red Mars\, Green Mars\, and Blue Mars) was an international bestseller\, and continues to be one of the most widely read works of science fiction\, a benchmark in discussions of humanity in space. His environmentalist work closer to home was the basis for him being named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” in 2008. He has worked with the U.S. National Science Foundation\, and was part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers program in 1995\, when he spent two months in Antarctica courtesy of NSF. He was part of the Sequoia Parks Foundations’ artist program in 2008. His articles and stories have been published in Nature\, The New York Times\, Newsweek\, U.S. News and World Report\, The Washington Post\, The New Scientist\, and Wired. He was the guest of Honor at the 68th World Science Fiction Convention\, in Melbourne\, 2010. His 2012 novel\, 2312\, was a New York Times bestseller\, as were his 2013 novel Shaman and 2015’s Aurora. \nRobinson has a B.A. and a Ph.D. in literature from University of California\, San Diego\, and an M.A. in English from Boston University. He taught literature at the University of California\, Davis\, before becoming a full­-time writer and parent.
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/kim-stanley-robinson-reading/
LOCATION:Avaya Auditorium\, 201 E. 24th St.\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Building of a $2.5 Billion Cleantech Community in Central Texas
DESCRIPTION:Mitch Jacobson\, Co-Director of the University’s ATI Clean Energy Incubator\, will speak on The Building of a $2.5 billion Cleantech Community in Central Texas at Thursday’s UT Energy Symposium. \nAbout the UT Energy Symposium: \nThe popular guest lecture series sponsored by the Energy Institute\, now in its tenth semester\, provides an opportunity for students to interact with faculty and other energy experts representing a broad cross-section of perspectives in an informal setting. The lectures are open to both students and the public. \nOngoing themes for UTES include climate change policy\, innovation and diffusion of energy technologies\, low-carbon options\, and behavioral aspects of energy consumption. \n 
URL:https://theaustincommon.com/event/the-building-of-a-2-5-billion-cleantech-community-in-central-texas/
LOCATION:Avaya Auditorium\, 201 E. 24th St.\, Austin\, TX\, 78712\, United States
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