Clark Miller talks with Heather Ross and Andrew Maynard about Energy Transitions and the Circular Economy. This is the 4th episode of the 5-part futurethink series: Innovation, Society, and the Circular Economy for the 2016 Disruptive Innovation Festival.

Show Notes

Guest, Clark Miller: https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/977682

• Check out the Disruptive Innovation Festival at https://www.thinkdif.co/

• Recycling requires enormous amount of energy and is cost-prohibitive. Can an energy transition make it more efficient? Read more: http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2015/10/14/economist-rethink-how-we-recycle

• Developers are bidding record-breaking low prices at a new plant planned for the Middle East. Read more about it: http://fortune.com/2016/09/19/world-record-solar-price-abu-dhabi/

• People being hard hit by energy transition played a significant role in this past election. What compelled coal workers during the election? Read more : http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/04/coal-mining-craig-colorado-election-day-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/93235678/

•Heather discusses the Clay Christensen model of disruption and what it means in energy transitions. Read more: https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-is-disruptive-innovation

•Innovation doesn’t always have to be transformative all at once. We can promote idea of incremental innovation so that people’s livelihoods are not disrupted. Read more: https://www.wired.com/insights/2013/11/the-power-of-incremental-innovation/