<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font color="#ffaa00" size="4">The Bard Center for Environmental Policy / The National Climate Seminar</font></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 36px;">How to Solve Climate by 2030: We CAN Change the Future</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.bard.edu/mba/people/faculty/index.php?id=987196"><font color="#ffaa00" style="font-size: 36px;">L. Hunter Lovins</font></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;"><o:p>Webinar, Wednesday September 18 12 Noon EST. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Webinar <a href="https://bluejeans.com/755218221">Link Here</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;"><o:p>. Dial in </o:p></span><a href="https://www.bard.edu/cep/publicprograms/ncs/">information Here</a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;"><o:p>. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;">The 2030 date to achieve </span><a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments/"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: white;"><font color="#ffaa00"><b>the Paris climate target</b></font></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> <font color="#333333">has inspired new engagement in climate solutions. Nevertheless, there is widespread pessimism about slowing climate change in the near term. Countering this view, increasingly low-cost solar plus low-cost battery storage are emerging as "the dominant backbone" of a future global energy economy. In this conversation, </font></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px;">sustainability</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10.5pt;"> expert Hunter Lovins will discuss </span></span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629619301914"><font color="#ffaa00"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>her recent paper on</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><b> the</b> </span><strong style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Solar Dominance Hypothesis</strong></font></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><font color="#ffaa00">:</font><font color="#333333"> the idea that in the 2020’s solar plus storage will emerge as part of a suite of highly disruptive energy technologies, and that driven by both the market and policy, within ten years 50% or more of power could be produced from solar plus storage. A solar plus storage market disruption, combined with rising civic action around other climate solutions, could open the road to “solve climate”—the energy side—over the next decade.</font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#232323">This webinar kicks off a year-long project:</font><font color="#ffaa00"> </font></span><a href="http://www.solveclimateby2030.org/" style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#ffaa00"><b>Solve Climate By 2030</b></font></a><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> sponsored by </span><a href="http://www.bard.edu/cep" style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#ffaa00"><b>The Bard Center for Environmental Policy</b></font></a><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> The project takes as its starting point recent IPCC report that we have only ten years to forestall catastrophic climate change. Combining a national speakers network with a call for One-Night Teach-in’s, the project culminates on April 7, 2020 </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">in a</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">national Power Dialog</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">:</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> 52</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">simultaneous,</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">university hosted</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">webinars, one in every state</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">, </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">DC and</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">Puerto Rico</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">. In</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">these webinars, local</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">climate solutions experts will suggest</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">the </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">top </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">three</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">ambitious but feasible</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">state, urban, utility or business</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">initiatives that need</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">to occur </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">in</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">Tennessee and Idaho, Missouri and</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">New Jersey, Florida and Minnesota,</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">if</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">we </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">aim </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">to forestall catastrophic climate</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">change.</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">Following these state</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">webinars, classes and other groups</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">tuning in will have 45</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">minutes for</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">“solutions sprints” designed to identify</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">civic action opportunities</span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;">for participants.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#232323"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#232323">Learn more at </font></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#ffaa00"> </font></span><a href="http://www.solveclimateby2030.org/" style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#ffaa00"><b>Solve Climate By 2030</b></font></a><span style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#232323">, and </font></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiqizzggbwL7tYphvo58jww9OPwYciKoiFYoLwTBGGr9ow6A/viewform?usp=sf_link"><b><font color="#ffb43f" style="font-size: 14px;">sign up here</font> </b></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#232323">t</font></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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