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Carla Peterman, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission

Release Date: 09/11/2018

Mike Casey on our Crisis in Consciousness

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

Mike Casey, CEO of Tigercomm is an expert in communicating climate change, or as he puts it, global climate disruption. Mike has deep expertise in communications, from his early days with Bill Clinton’s comms team to advising Tom Steyer in challenging the Keystone XL pipeline to his current work in helping renewable energy developers across the country clear the hurdles they often face in getting big projects through. Mike is thoughtful, clear-sighted an emphatic about our race to save the planet.

Bill Weihl on Corporate Climate Advocacy

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

Bill Weihl has likely done more to drive down GHG emissions from the tech sector than any single person. He was the Green Energy Czar at Google, building the strategy and team that took the company to 100% renewable energy and to carbon neutrality for its primary operations. Bill also headed Facebook’s sustainability efforts and co-founded several tech industry-wide efforts including RE 100.

Katherine Hamilton Interview

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

As chair of 38 North Solutions and co-host of the Energy Gang Podcast, Katherine Hamilton is expert in energy policy at the state, federal and international level, and has deep experience in technologies ranging from bioenergy to smart grid and from energy storage to demand-side management.

Elaine Nektritz on the Future of Energy in IL

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

Elaine has been one of the architects Illinois’ current heading to be a 100% clean energy state by 2050. She served in the IL legislature for nearly 15 years, chairing several committees and ultimately co-authoring what became the Future Energy Jobs Act of 2016—a law that approaches renewable energy expansion from a green jobs perspective, building clean energy job training centers in disadvantaged communities throughout the state.

Doug Scott and Ann McCabe Interview

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

This week we talk with Doug Scott and Ann McCabe, two former commissioners of the Illinois Commerce Commission and both former directors of the board of The Climate Registry, where Ann currently serves as executive director. Doug and Ann have broad experience in energy and climate policy and deep understanding of the evolving energy picture in Illinois and across the Midwest.

Nicole Lederer, co-founder and Chair, Environmental Entrepreneurs

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

Nicole Lederer co-founded Environmental Entrepreneurs on the premise that the economy and the environment are not divergent interests. E2 has proven time and again that sound environmental policy is beneficial to our economy. At its core, E2 is a network of about 1000 leaders in business and that tent has now broadened to include military leaders and farms. This growth is all part of Nicole’s vision.

Marilyn Waite, Climate Finance, Hewlett Foundation

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

Marilyn Waite oversees Hewlett Foundation's climate finance program where she invests in sustainable banking strategies that can lower global emissions at the gigaton scale. She is also a thought leader in the green jobs space, having authored Sustainability at Work, Careers that Make a Difference, a book that looks at sustainability professions across various sectors, such as agriculture, health care, and even entertainment and media.

Emily Reichert, CEO, Greentown Labs

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

Dr. Emily Reichert has been at the helm of Greentown Labs in Somerville, MA since 2013. She has overseen the growth of Greentown to become the largest clean technology startup incubator in the United States, with over 170 companies incubated and $320M in funding raised. These companies run the gamut, from robotics and process efficiency to advanced materials to agriculture, water and waste. Emily has a background in green chemistry and the commercialization of many beneficial technologies.

Matt Petersen, CEO, L.A. Clean Tech Incubator

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

As CEO of the Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator, Peterson oversees early stage growth of nearly 30 portfolio companies across a range of sustainability sectors including energy conservation, IT, alternative materials, transportation, water and waste, agriculture and the built environment. Matt came to LACI after serving as L.A.’s first Chief Sustainability Officer and long-time CEO of Global Green, the NGO that Mikail Gorbachev created to tackle nuclear proliferation and environmental sustainability.

Nancy Sutley, Chief Sustainability Officer, LADWP

Sustainability Leaders Podcast

Nancy Sutley has great insight into the energy transformation that is sweeping the country. She also understands the contrasting dynamics of local, state and federal climate and environmental policy, having served as Deputy Mayor for Energy and Environment for L.A., Deputy Secretary for Policy at CalEPA, and President Obama’s Chair of the Whitehouse Council on Environmental Quality.

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Appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, first to the California Energy Commission in 2011 and then to the California Public Utilities Commission in 2012, Peterman has overseen the ramping up of renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy storage and electric vehicle regulations in the state. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation about Carla’s path from Rhodes Scholar to Commissioner, and her insights into the energy transition and its attendant job opportunities.

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