Environment and Energy in the Twenty-First Century
Clark is working hard to become a sustainable, energy-efficient campus. Hear how Clarkies are taking that mission into the world, and get their perspectives on the challenges awaiting us in the twenty-first century.
Saturday, May 19, 2012; 1:30 p.m.
Jonas Clark Hall, Room 102
Moderator
Jennie Stephens
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Department of International Development, Community and Environment; Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Environmental Science and Policy, Clark University
Jennie Stephens' research, teaching, and community engagement focuses in various ways on accelerating a societal transition toward sustainability, with a focus on climate change mitigation, energy technologies, climate education, and campus sustainability. She is particularly interested in considering the ways in which universities can play a role as change agents for sustainability. She has been at Clark for six years.
Stephens received her B.A. (1997) from Harvard University in environmental science and public policy, and earned both her M.S. (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) at the California Institute of Technology in environmental science and engineering. Before joining the faculty of Clark University, she did post-doctoral research at Harvard's Kennedy School and taught at Tufts, Boston University, and MIT.
Both of her daughters, Cecelia (age 12) and Anna (age 10), were born in California while Jennie and her husband were in graduate school at Caltech in Pasadena.
Panelists include:
John Morrill '82
Energy Manager, Office of Sustainability and Energy Management, Arlington County Government, Virginia
John Morrill leads energy management and related programming for Arlington County, Virginia, and is instrumental to Arlington's community-wide energy plan, now in progress.
Morrill received a U.S. EPA Climate Protection Award in 2008 in recognition of his co-founding of Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE), Arlington's climate action program, and his assistance to other jurisdictions in Virginia. He also spent 17 years on the staff of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), worked briefly as a Vice President for Sustainable Development at Emerald Cities Collaborative, and coauthored two books on energy and the environment.
Morrill holds a master's degree in urban and environmental planning from the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, and is a Certified Energy Manager and a member of ASHRAE.
James Salo '02, M.A. '03
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Research, Trucost Plc
James Salo runs the North American division of the research company, Trucost, a global leader in environmental data and analysis. Salo helped develop and now leads Newsweek's annual "Green Ranking" of companies, wrote a World Bank funded report ranking the carbon exposure of the largest investment funds in Asia and has authored dozens of public and private reports on environmental performance, business and investment.
Salo holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University's Centre of the Environment where his research focused on the environmental performance of corporations. He teaches courses on environmental sustainability, including "Greening the Corporation" last fall at Clark's Graduate School of Management.