068: Clean Energy in our Communities with Ted Bardacke of Clean Power Alliance
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Ted Bardacke and Marjorie Alexander cover:
- What is clean energy and how does it get to us?
- What is the future of renewable and carbon-free energy? Will we ever succeed from the grid?
- How can residents get access to clean energy in their area?
- What if there are no local utilities offering clean energy in my area?
About our Ted Bardacke:
Ted Bardacke, Executive Director of the Clean Power Alliance, has forged a unique career focusing on sustainable urbanism and economic development that spans three continents, including major stints in local government, non-profit organizations, journalism and academia.
Ted comes to the Alliance from the Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, where he was Director of Infrastructure and Deputy Director of the Mayor's Sustainability Office. In those positions he was instrumental in both crafting and then implementing the city's first-ever Sustainability Plan, with a particular emphasis on pursuing distributed systems in the electricity and water sectors, and utilizing mobility infrastructure to pursue low-carbon and ecologically beneficial outcomes.
From 2003 to 2013, Ted worked in the Green Urbanism Program at Global Green USA and during the 1990s was a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times of London, based in Mexico City and Bangkok. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, Ted has been a Visiting Fellow at Mexico City's Centro de Transporte Sustentable and is a permanent Lecturer in the Urban Planning Program at UCLA.
Connect with Ted Bardacke and Clean Power Alliance:
- Clean Power Alliance website: https://cleanpoweralliance.org
- Benefits of Clean Energy: https://cleanpoweralliance.org/about-us/#benefits
- Residential Rates: https://cleanpoweralliance.org/rate-options/residential-rates/
- Power Sources: https://cleanpoweralliance.org/about-us/power-sources/
- Clean/Green Jobs & Contracting Opportunities: https://cleanpoweralliance.org/get-involved/job-contracting-opportunities/
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Sustainable Mind, Episode 68. |
| 0:03.9 | Today we'll be chatting with Ted Bartikey, executive director of the Clean Power Alliance here in California, |
| 0:10.6 | about clean energy and what it's going to take to transition off of fossil fuels. |
| 0:15.5 | Today is also September 20, 2019, the start of the global climate strike. This worldwide event will take place from now until September 26th, 2019, the start of the Global Climate Strike. |
| 0:21.4 | This worldwide event will take place from now until September 27th. |
| 0:25.6 | And just in the last 24 hours, over 4 million people have taken part in what is now the most |
| 0:31.4 | widely distributed climate mobilization the world has ever seen. |
| 0:35.6 | To find a local strike near you, head on over to global |
| 0:38.8 | climate strike.net. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful |
| 0:48.7 | environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental change makers of tomorrow. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm your host, Marjorie Alexander. |
| 1:05.0 | Ted Bartike is Executive Director of Clean Power Alliance. |
| 1:09.0 | California's new, locally locally operated electricity provider for 31 |
| 1:13.3 | communities and approximately 1 million eligible customers across Los Angeles and Ventura counties. |
| 1:19.6 | Ted brings a unique background to the organization that includes broad experience in the public sector, |
| 1:25.6 | renewable energy planning, and sustainability program design. |
| 1:30.4 | Ted comes to Clean Power Alliance from the Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, where he was director of infrastructure and deputy director of the mayor's sustainability office. |
| 1:40.9 | Prior to that, Ted worked in the Green Urbanism Program at Global Green USA. |
| 1:47.2 | Ted, welcome to the show. |
| 1:49.0 | Thank you. Thank you, Marjorie, for having me. |
| 1:51.2 | I'm so excited to have you on. And actually, you don't know this, but you and I, I don't think |
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