We've got exciting new participants for our event Powering the Planet, featuring research at the vanguard of solar, wind, geothermal and algae/biofuel energy. In this town-hall meeting, leading scientists, conservationists and high-level policy advisors will debate the challenges and solutions to the urgent global problem of powering the planet with clean, renewable energy sources. New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin will moderate.
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- Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland, famous for identifying the destructive role of CFCs in the creating the “ozone hole” in the planet's atmosphere
- Shirley Ann Jackson, physicist, policy advisor, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- David Keith, a pioneer in capturing and storing climate-change-causing CO2
- Betsy Taylor, who has spent more than 20 years promoting energy conservation and community building
- Glen Kurtz, algae-to-biopower pioneer
- Saul Griffith, high-altitude-windpower innovator
- Dan Nocera, who is seeking to mimic photosynthesis as a means of harnessing solar energy
