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- Climate Change Solution: Hydrogen Energy ft. Brian DeBruine
Today you will learn from expert guest Brian DeBruine about hydrogen energy, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:57) - What is hydrogen energy?
- (02:45) - Why would hydrogen energy help to solve climate change?
- (06:15) - Why would hydrogen energy not help to solve climate change?
- (09:48) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (12:26) - How does hydrogen energy work?
- (14:09) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
- (14:48) - Recommended resources
- (15:15) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
- (16:54) - Final recommendations
- (18:10) - Activity
Brian DeBruine is the Director and founder of the non-profit Colorado Hydrogen Network plus the host of the HydrogenNowCast podcast. He previously had a 36 year career with Honeywell Aerospace where he developed new products and programs.
-----How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
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19 min - Climate Change Solution: Biomass Energy
Today you will learn about biomass energy, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:23) - What is biomass energy?
- (00:47) - Why does biomass energy help to solve climate change?
- (01:23) - Why would biomass energy NOT work to solve climate change?
- (02:01) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (02:58) - How feasible is biomass energy to implement as a solution?
- (03:16) - How does biomass energy work as a solution to climate change?
- (04:26) - For biomass energy as a solution to work, what innovation or policy needs to be created?
- (04:52) - Top skills to solve climate change
- (05:36) - Activity
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How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change
7 min - Climate Change Solution: Geothermal Energy ft. Roland Horne
Today you will learn from expert guest Roland Horne about geothermal energy, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:53) - What is geothermal energy?
- (01:31) - Why would geothermal energy help to solve climate change?
- (03:17) - Why would geothermal energy not help to solve climate change?
- (05:31) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (06:20) - How does geothermal energy work?
- (07:33) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
- (09:10) - Recommended resources
- (09:51) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
- (11:46) - Final recommendations
- (12:40) - Activity
Roland N. Horne is the Thomas Davies Barrow Professor of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, and Senior Fellow in the Precourt Institute for Energy. He holds BE, PhD and DSc degrees from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, all in Engineering Science.He is best known for his work in well test interpretation, production optimization, and analysis of fractured reservoirs. So far in his academic career he has supervised the graduate research of 60 PhD and 135 MS students. He is an Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He served on the International Geothermal Association (IGA) Board 1998-2001, 2001-2004, and 2007-2010, and was the 2010-2013 President of IGA.
He was the Technical Program chair of the World Geothermal Congress in 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2020.Horne has been an SPE Distinguished Lecturer (1998, 2009 and 2020), and has been awarded the SPE Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, the Lester C. Uren Award, and the John Franklin Carl Award. From Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), he received the Best Paper in “Geophysics” in 2011, and from SPE he received Best Paper in Journal of Petroleum Technology (1992) and Best Paper in SPE Formation Evaluation (1993). He has also received five Best Paper awards from Geothermal Resources Council (GRC). He is a Fellow of the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo (2016) and also an Honorary Professor of China University of Petroleum – East China (2016).
-----How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change
14 min - Climate Change Solution: Hydropower ft. Malcolm Woolf
Today you will learn from expert guest Malcolm Woolf about hydropower, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:50) - What is hydropower?
- (01:22) - Why would hydropower help to solve climate change?
- (05:35) - Why would hydropower not help to solve climate change?
- (07:34) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (15:39) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
- (20:45) - Recommended resources
- (21:11) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
- (23:24) - Final recommendations
- (24:31) - Activity
Malcolm Woolf is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Hydropower Association. Woolf comes to NHA after decades of experience in the energy and environment field. He was a Senior Vice President with Advanced Energy Economy and has extensive markets experience. He served in a cabinet level position for Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley where he worked to promote affordable, reliable, clean energy, and he also led energy policy for the National Governors Association. Woolf has experience in both the executive branch and Capitol Hill having served at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and as a Congressional committee staff member. Woolf earned his law degree, as well as a Masters of Public Administration and Public Policy, from the University of Virginia. He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Tufts University, with a year at Pembroke College, Oxford University. Malcolm is the supporting NHA staff member for the CEO Council.
-----How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change
26 min - Climate Change Solution: Wind Energy
Today you will learn about wind energy, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:23) - What is wind energy?
- (00:47) - Why does wind energy help to solve climate change?
- (01:30) - Why would wind energy NOT work to solve climate change?
- (02:11) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (02:57) - How feasible is wind energy to implement as a solution?
- (03:15) - How does wind energy work as a solution to climate change?
- (04:20) - For wind energy as a solution to work, what innovation or policy needs to be created?
- (04:48) - Top skills to solve climate change
- (05:38) - Activity
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How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change
7 min - Climate Change Solution: Solar Energy ft. Chuck Kutscher
Today you will learn from expert guest Chuck Kutscher about solar energy, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (02:40) - What is solar energy?
- (05:38) - Why would solar energy help to solve climate change?
- (09:01) - Why would solar energy not help to solve climate change?
- (11:33) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (14:06) - How does solar energy as a solution work?
- (16:36) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
- (19:15) - Recommended resources
- (20:50) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
- (22:30) - Final recommendations
- (24:50) - Activity
Dr. Charles (Chuck) Kutscher is a Fellow and Senior Research Associate of the University of Colorado Boulder Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI). Dr. Kutscher spent 4 decades as a renewable energy researcher and manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and was the Director of the Buildings and Thermal Sciences Center when he retired from NREL in July 2018. He is a Past Chair and Fellow of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and served as U.S. Representative for the International Energy Agency (IEA) Solar Heating and Cooling Program Task 14, "Advanced Active Solar Energy Systems."He is the lead author of the third edition of the college textbook, Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems and is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Boulder where he is teaching the course “Sustainable Energy.” Dr. Kutscher has given many presentations on climate change solutions throughout the US and abroad, and he has been involved in several recent climate change projects, including as lead author of the RASEI report, Accelerating the US Clean Energy Transformation (which was summarized in an op-ed in The Hill) and as a contributing author to the 2020 Zero Carbon Action Plan by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Dr. Kutscher received a B.S. in physics from the State University of New York at Albany, an M.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states of Colorado and California.
-----How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change
26 min - Climate Change Solution: Remote Work ft. Ravi S. Gajendran
Today you will learn from expert guest Ravi S. Gajendran about remote work, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:37) - What is remote work?
- (04:10) - Why would remote work help to solve climate change?
- (07:36) - Why would remote work not help to solve climate change?
- (09:35) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (12:51) - How does remote work as a solution work?
- (15:29) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
- (16:33) - Recommended resources
- (17:33) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
- (19:41) - Final recommendations
- (20:41) - Activity
Dr. Ravi Gajendran is Professor and Alvah Chapman Eminent Scholar Endowment Chair in the Global Leadership and Management Department (GLAM) at Florida International University.He is also the Department Chair of the Global Leadership and Management Department. He received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Pennsylvania State University. Before entering the doctoral program at Penn State, he had a career in sales and marketing for over seven years working for multinationals such as Cadbury’s and Procter & Gamble. Prior to joining FIU, Ravi was on the faculty of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he featured on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for every year he taught there. At FIU, he has taught courses on organizational behavior, leadership, and human resource management at PhD, MBA, and undergraduate levels. He has won multiple teaching awards at FIU including Faculty Excellence and Course Excellence Awards.
His areas of research expertise include remote work, virtual teams, impacts of communication technology, leadership, and human capital development. He is a member of the editorial board of three top-tier journals: Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Management. Dr. Gajendran is the recipient of research awards from the Academy of Management including the Best Student Paper Award (2006) and the DeSanctis Award for Best Paper based on a Dissertation (2012).
He is a well-recognized expert in the area of remote work and his research has been featured in several public policy documents and prominent media outlets including New York Times, USA Today, Fox Business News, Entrepreneur.com, Inc.com, and Forbes. His research has been cited by the Report to Congress on the Status of Federal Telecommuting Arrangements. In addition to publishing his research in top-tier journals, he has also written articles for managers that have been published in Harvard Business Review and Business Today.
-----How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change
22 min - Climate Change Solution: Urban City Planning
Today you will learn about urban city planning, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:23) - What is urban city planning?
- (00:49) - Why does urban city planning help to solve climate change?
- (01:50) - Why would urban city planning NOT work to solve climate change?
- (02:17) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (02:57) - How feasible is urban city planning to implement as a solution?
- (03:13) - How does urban city planning work as a solution to climate change?
- (04:47) - For urban city planning as a solution to work, what innovation or policy needs to be created?
- (05:16) - Top skills to solve climate change
- (06:03) - Activity
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How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change
7 min - Climate Change Solution: Improving Vehicle Efficiency
Today you will learn about vehicle efficiency, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for them to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:23) - What is improving vehicle efficiency?
- (00:47) - Why does improving vehicle efficiency help to solve climate change?
- (01:23) - Why would improving vehicle efficiency NOT work to solve climate change?
- (02:10) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (03:04) - How feasible is improving vehicle efficiency to implement as a solution?
- (03:31) - How does improving vehicle efficiency work as a solution to climate change?
- (04:50) - For improving vehicle efficiency as a solution to work, what innovation or policy needs to be created?
- (05:21) - Top skills to solve climate change
- (06:07) - Activity
-----How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change
7 min - Climate Change Solution: Electric Vehicles ft. Genevieve Cullen
Today you will learn from expert guest Genevieve Cullen about electric vehicles, why they may or may not help solve climate change, how they work and what needs to still be done for them to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:56) - What are electric vehicles?
- (01:46) - Why would electric vehicles help to solve climate change?
- (02:49) - Why would electric vehicles not help to solve climate change?
- (04:28) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (08:05) - How does an electric vehicle work?
- (09:39) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
- (15:56) - Recommended resources
- (17:23) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
- (18:58) - Final recommendations
- (19:36) - Activity
Genevieve Cullen has led the Electric Drive Transportation Association, the Washington, DC based cross-industry trade association promoting the electrification of transportation, as President since 2015. She previously served as Vice President, directing the organization’s policy and advocacy efforts. Prior to joining EDTA, Genevieve provided energy policy counsel in the Executive and Legislative Branches, including serving as Energy Counsel to Senator Evan Bayh (DIN). In these capacities, she developed and promoted policy solutions in diverse issue areas, including climate change and air quality, transportation emissions, energy efficiency and utility regulation. Genevieve Cullen has substantial experience as an advocate for private sector initiatives, with an emphasis on advanced technology solutions to energy and environmental challenges. A graduate of Washington College of Law and Bucknell University, Genevieve is a member of the District of Columbia bar.
-----How to Solve Climate Change is a course presented by Plato University. In this course you will hear from leading scientists to non profit leaders from around the world sharing their expertise on climate change and the exact skills you will need to solve this challenge.
Enroll in the course for FREE to get exclusive access to:
- A community of passionate learners like you
- Videos with every lesson
- Advanced resources
- Additional skills
- And much more
Enroll at plato.university/courses/climate-change
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About How to Solve Climate Change
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Learn to solve one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. In this course you’ll use systems thinking to understand the causes, systems, and obstacles underlying the climate change challenge and discover a portfolio of possible solutions. Explore our easy-to-understand, science-backed lessons featuring global experts in climate research, policy, technology, and beyond, with actionable advice and practical skills you can learn to start taking action right away without being a scientist!
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