Ed Saltzberg, Executive Director of the Security and Sustainability Forum in a one-hour conversation with Citizen Climate Lobby’s Executive Director, Mark Reynolds. CCL is a non-profit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change.
SSF and CCL are aligned in our view of the importance of local action and bipartisan political activism to move governmental bodies toward rational climate mitigation policy and the incorporation of resilience planning into decision making.
Mark Reynolds Executive Director — Citizen’s Climate Lobby
During his tenure, CCL has been marked by exceptionally rapid growth, with the organization doubling or tripling in size every year. Mark is an expert on helping disparate interests find common ground on energy, public policy, and the environment.
Edward Saltzberg Managing Director — Security and Sustainability Forum Ed is a founder of SSF, which convenes global experts to address impacts to society from natural and man made disruptions. Ed has been a senior officer in energy and environmental firms and a sustainability consultant to government agencies.
Americans are facing tremendous challenges due to the pandemic, that calls for immediate action within the electric utilities sector to better understand customer and workforce behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions. From social justice to socioeconomics—the appropriate planning, sensitivity, and response strategies need to happen now. Utilities such as ComEd are extending moratorium on residential disconnections due to pandemic until March 31.
Join MaryAnne Brelinsky, EDF Energy President, Dr. Massoud Amin University of Minnesota Professor, Phil Nevels Exelon Utilities Director of Innovation and Partnerships, with host Zpryme’s Chris Moyer for the flagship panel—Utility Response.
Our guests will discuss recent headlines that cross the following areas:
Inclusion: Mirror the communities you serve. If utilities are working to build the next-gen workforce–one with diverse, highly skilled, and qualified State of New York energy-family capable of delivering on the responsibility to meet customers’ evolving needs. What customer initiatives—including metrics—will utilities implement to better educate and engage its community on: diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging?
Community: Inspiring confidence, utilities have essentially been forced to take a growing interest in not only customer experience, but more importantly the ability to keep the lights on for those that cannot pay their bill. What are utilities goodwill efforts? How are customers less fortunate being educated? Is there a grassroots contingency plan? Environmental justice initiatives and stance?
Resiliency: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, North American Electric Reliability Corporation and the North American Transmission Forum issued an Epidemic/Pandemic Response Plan Resource (“Resource”) several months ago, providing guidance to plan for and respond to an epidemic or pandemic event. Including natural disasters (eg storms), many customers are concerned about the health and safety of themselves and their loved ones—including utility staff—how is this being addressed?
Wed, Oct 28, 2020 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
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As AI becomes more pervasive, so too has the concern over how we can trust that it reflects human values. Misconceptions about what AI can and cannot do abound, eroding trust in the abilities they do possess. And, perhaps most significantly, a lack of clarity over which jobs AI might impact breeds an additional level of distrust in the technology. AI thought leaders universally agree that it is mission-critical to educate people about where disruptions might occur and to teach the skills that will be needed to perform new jobs AI will create in the future. Developing and deploying the technology in a responsible manner requires an effort of equal proportion, which means one or even a handful of organizations working toward that end is not enough. A significant collaboration within and across academia, industry, and government is required to meet the challenge and ultimately build trust among consumers and stakeholders that their best interests are truly at heart. Join Microsoft and ASU thought leaders exploring the technology – human interface and how to get the most out of that ecosystem.
Wed, Oct 14, 2020 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EDT Register at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2065867308970078223The challenge of climate resilience is mostly local. But local governments don’t have all of the capacities, including financial wherewithal, to cope alone during the next decades. States have the ability and responsibility to make a difference in building local climate resilience. They reap the rewards of improved quality of life, reduced disaster impacts and increased economic stability for their constituents. This webinar will discuss:
What financial strategies can state governments use to help local governments invest in climate resilience?
What resources do states have to fund and finance resilience?
How can states expand federal pre-disaster funding?
What can states do to enable local governments to raise local funds for resilience projects?
How can private investment in local resilience be increased?
In this interactive session, state and local leaders from around the country and resilience finance experts
Webinar supported by Climate Resilience Consulting, Innovation Network for Communities and Urban Resilience to Extremes Strategic Research Network. Research supported by the Summit Foundation.
MEET THE PANEL
Joyce Coffee
Joyce Coffee is the founder and President of Climate Resilience Consulting, a Certified B Corp. Joyce has over 25 years of domestic and international experience implementing resilience and sustainability strategies, management systems, performance measurement, partnerships, benchmarking and reporting. She wrote Climate Adaptation Exchange Blog and Money for Resilient Infrastructure: How to Finance America’s Climate Changed Future.
John Cleveland is the author, of Life After Carbon and President and a founder of the Innovation Network for Communities, a new national non-profit whose mission is to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems. John also serves as the part time Executive Director for the Boston Green Ribbon Commission. He writes extensively on a wide range of topics, found in the archives at www.in4c.net.
Nuin-Tara Key is Deputy Director for Climate Resilience at California’s Office of Planning and Research and Chair of the Technical Advisory Council for the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program.
Shaun O’Rourke is Director of Stormwater and Resiliency at Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank, and Chief Resilience Officer for the State of Rhode Island.
Tom Jacobs As Director, Environmental Programs Mid-America Regional Council, Tom oversees regional environmental policy and planning initiatives related to open space conservation, air quality, watershed management and solid waste management.
The next webinar in the SSF series with ecological economist and futurist Hazel Henderson will address how the UN SDGs can and should replace GDP as the basis for valuing society leading to an economy based on planet protection and human wellbeing.
GDP accounts for all the public expenditures as “debt” while ignoring the value of the assets they created. If GDP were to be corrected by including the missing asset account, these debt-to-GDP ratios would be cut by up to 50% — with a few keystrokes! Learn why money isn’t what you think it is and why that matters to life on Earth in the next two webinar with Hazel and guests. Claudine Schneider is the October 22nd guest. She is a former Republican U.S. representative from Rhode Island. She was the first, and to date only, woman elected to Congress from Rhode Island. She is founder of Republicans for Integrity, which describes itself as a network of “Republican former Members of Congress who feel compelled to remind Republican voters about the fundamentals of our party and to provide the facts about incumbents’ voting records.”
Thu, Oct 8, 2020 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM EDT REGISTER at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/9185257874558317072 The next two webinars in the SSF series with ecological economist and futurist Hazel Henderson will address how the UN SDGs can and should replace GDP as the basis for valuing society leading to an economy based on planet protection and human […]
Friday October 2, 2020 – 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT REGISTER AT https://bit.ly/3ig7kEJ Secure and reliable access to energy and water on Army installations is essential to its ability to deploy, fight, and win in a complex world. The Army installation objectives of maintaining world class training facilities, the ability to project power or surge […]
Friday, September 11 – 1:15 to 2:15 PM EDT Join George Washington University and the Security and Sustainability Forum for the third webinar in the Leadership in Our Time webinar series. Reinhard Bütikofer will be interviewed by diplomat András Simonyi. Mr. Bütikofer has been a Member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA) since 2009. He was Co-Chair […]
Thursday – September 24th, 2020 – 1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. In 2018 alone more than 6,000 people were killed while walking in America. Yet, despite the increase in deaths, the tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the […]
Tue, Sep 15, 2020 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM EDT Vulnerable, overburdened, and undeserved communities have been disproportionately impacted by natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, major floods, wildfires, earthquakes, and other disasters. And, now from COVID 19. The webinar will convene some of the leaders in developing best practices and time-sensitive solutions for these […]
Wed, Sep 9, 2020 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM EDT In spite of lingering global public health problems, human well-being has never been better. In the past 65 years through scientific advancement, for example, the proportion of the world’s people living in extreme poverty has dropped from 63% to 10% in spite of a tripling […]
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The challenge of climate resilience is mostly local. But local governments don’t have all of the capacities, including financial wherewithal, to cope alone during the next decades. States have the ability and responsibility to make a difference in building local climate resilience. They reap the rewards of improved quality of life, reduced disaster impacts and increased economic stability for their constituents. This webinar will discuss:
Right of Way: How Racial and Class Disparities Created a Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America