Diversifying Cleantech: Race and Class in the Energy Transition

Energy Gang

Wood Mackenzie

Tech News, Environment, Sustainability, Innovation, Renewable Energy, Technology, Alternative Energy, Energy, News, Cleantech, Wind Energy, Business, Climate Change, Solar Energy

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In 2012, an NAACP analysis found that Americans living within three miles of a coal plant are disproportionately low-income and disproportionately non-white. The report echoed government studies from the 1980s showing how toxic waste facilities and power plants were overwhelmingly located in communities of color across the U.S. -- studies that helped spark the environmental justice movement. Today, environmental justice isn't just about fighting toxic facilities. It's about ensuring the transition to clean energy is fair, inclusive and economically beneficial. In this week's show, we'll talk with Jacqueline Patterson of the NAACP about what clean energy can learn from the environmental justice movement. In the second part of the show, GTM's Eric Wesoff joins us to talk about his analysis of Vinod Khosla's venture investments in biofuels, batteries, solar and materials. We'll finish by talking about the natural gas leak outside Los Angeles that has forced thousands of people from their homes. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	For the week of January 14th, 2016, this is the Energy energy transition fair and inclusive.
0:20.0	We will talk to the director of the N-W-A-C-P's Environmental and Climate Justice Program about
0:25.6	what it means to diversify clean tech.
0:28.6	Then a look at Vinoed Co-Sla's Investment Track Record in Energy, with GTM's editor-in-chief Eric Wessoff.
0:34.6	Finally, what will it take to get the massive gas leak
0:38.1	under control in California?
0:40.6	I'm Stephen Lacy here to help guide you through these stories.
0:43.0	Coming to you this week from our Boston offices,
0:46.0	I'm actually using an emergency replacement microphone
0:50.0	after my mic got damaged in transit.
0:52.0	So you might notice a slight difference in quality,
0:54.0	but we're all connected here and that's what matters.
0:56.1	Catherine Hamilton is in Washington, DC.
0:58.9	Hey, Catherine, how are you?
1:00.2	Just great.
1:01.1	Jiggershaw is in New York City, as usual.
1:03.0	How are you?
1:05.0	I'm doing well, just, you know, like embracing the cold weather that New York is attracted
1:09.6	recently.
1:10.6	Yep, I was in New York on Monday.
1:11.6	It got slightly colder, then I came up to Boston and it got freezing.
1:16.4	Our guest is usually in Baltimore, Maryland, but right now in a car somewhere outside of Flint, Michigan,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wood Mackenzie, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wood Mackenzie and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.