New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin will moderate a sweeping townhall meeting of pioneers in renewable energy technologies, Powering the Planet, featuring research at the vanguard of solar, wind, geothermal and algae/biofuel energy. 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.

Featuring:

• 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

 
Powering the Planet will take place on Saturday, May 31, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South (between Thompson and LaGuardia).

The event is supported by Con Edison and NYSERDA.

More updates from the World Science Festival can be found here.  The World Science Festival is a celebration of science, held from May 28 to June 1, 2008, in New York City.

http://www.worldsciencefestival.com

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