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Future of Energy

Finding a secure, safe and reliable source of energy to power world economic growth will be one of the great challenges of this century. The Harvard University Center for the Environment invites the Harvard community to take up the challenge by participating in this ongoing series of discussions. Support for the Future of Energy speaker series is generously provided by Bank of America.
 
Videos from the 2011-12 season are posted as they become available. Videos from past seasons are available to view in the video archive.

Upcoming Installments:

April 4 – Daniel Yergin, Author; Executive Vice President and Chairman, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. "The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Modern World." 5pm, Science Center B, 1 Oxford St.

Previous Installments:

Wednesday, April 4 – "The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Modern World"
Daniel Yergin, Author; Executive Vice President and Chairman, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Wednesday, March 7: “Bringing Back America:  How Reviving our Manufacturing Sector is the Big Issue in the 2012 Election”
Carl Pope, Former Chairman of the Sierra Club

Monday, February 27: "California's Low Carbon Energy Future"
Mary D. Nichols, California Air Resources Board Chairman

November 30 - "North America's New Age of Energy Abundance: Prudent Oil and Natural Gas Development"
James Hackett, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.

October 26 - "Risks and Opportunities of Natural Gas"
Susan Tierney, Managing Principal at Analysis Group and former Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy.

 

October 13 - "The Development of Liquid Fuels from Lignocellulose"
Chris Somerville, Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute; Professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley; Visiting Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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