This Climate One podcast is sponsored by General Motors.

How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?

Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.

Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,

Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.

With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture, Climate One founder Greg Dalton, gets to the heart of the matter.

It's our future. It's time to come together.

I'm Greg Dalton, and today on Climate One, we're talking about powering innovation.

California is leading the trend toward clean energy and away from fossil fuels that are

destabilizing the weather and the economy.

Prices for wind and solar electricity are dropping, and entrepreneurs are conjuring up

new companies and technologies that capitalize on this power shift.

We're chasing what could be the biggest business opportunity of this century.

Over the next hour, we will discuss disruptive technologies, the role of government, cool startups,

and new ways of powering our connected and mobile lives.

Joining our live audience at the Commonwealth

Club in San Francisco, we're pleased to have with us four guests. David Crane is CEO of

NRG Energy, a $10 billion company that operates power plants around the country. Katie

Farrenbacher is reporter with giga-oam. Adam Lowry is co-founder and chief greenskeeper with method products,

maker of soaps and other cleaning supplies. And Arun Madhimdar is professor of mechanical engineering

at Stanford, former vice president for energy at Google, and former head of the Advanced Energy

Research Program at the U.S. Department of Energy. Please welcome them to Climate One.

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