ASU Center for Energy & Society
Putting people at the heart of the energy revolution
Joey Eschrich and Clark Miller had the opportunity today to discuss Cities of Light with the great team at the US Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technology Office.
The talk focused on the need to shift energy transition thinking toward people-centered modes of analysis and to develop new kinds of tools for visualizing and analyzing socio-energy systems and relationships.
If you missed it, you can now catch up with the video from the launch webinar for our new book, Cities of Light. It was a fantastic conversation.
A group of students from QESST and the Center for Energy & Society recently recorded a video for the IEEE SIGHT program to help humanitarian engineering students learn about how to approach energy from a user-centered perspective.
Clark Miller and Joey Eschrich, editors of Cities of Light, recently gave a talk at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts on one of the book’s central themes: the design challenge of deploying sufficient solar energy to achieve global carbon neutrality.
Clark Miller sits down with Jeremi Suri, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and host of This is Democracy, to talk about the politics of energy transitions and the possibilities of building a sustainable energy future that simultaneously helps build the foundations of democratic societies.
Access the transcript at: https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/this-is-democracy/podcast/ep-80-energy-transitions/
The year 2020 was to mark the beginning of a “decade of delivery” for the global renewable energy transition. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the wind out of those sails.
This is a watershed moment for the global energy transition.
Joshua Loughman, center researcher
To find out more, read the rest of the story in the World Economic Forum.
Center PhD students Yiamar Rivera-Matos and Angel Echevarria are leading a revolution in Puerto Rico, grounded in the power and flexibility of solar energy to create more just and resilient communities.
Read more in this ASU News story about their exciting work.
A new talk by center director Clark Miller on improving the social returns from clean energy investments.
Humanity needs a greater return on its forthcoming $100T investment in new energy technologies than just carbon neutrality. Solving climate change is essential, but our investments in a clean energy revolution should also be investments in a more just, equitable, and thriving human future.
Richard Scarry’s Busytown lies at the heart of the sustainability challenge. We lose sight of that fact at our peril.
Continue reading “What’s up in Busytown on Earth Day?”
The Center for Energy & Society has launched a new magazine on Medium, focused on “energizing futures that empower and include”. Read more about our ideas in Designing in Sunlight.
