Climate Changers

Jeff Bedard provides renewable energy consulting services from a business and technical standpoint. He offers a broad range of technical, market, and advisory services and has worked across the globe on projects ranging from electrifying sustainable resorts in Mexico, to bringing renewable energy to the largest resort on Maui, to planning, designing, and implementing renewable energy projects across entire corporate real estate portfolios. 

Peter Schlosser is the vice president and vice provost of the Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University. He is the University Professor of Global Futures and holds joint appointments in the School of Sustainability, the School of Earth and Space Exploration in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. The laboratory has been launched to harness the innovative capacity of academia and develop options for sound management of the planet.  Professor Schlosser is one of the world’s leading earth scientists, with expertise in the Earth’s hydrosphere and how humans affect the planet’s natural state. His research interests include studies of water movement and its variability in natural systems (oceans, lakes, rivers, groundwater) using natural and anthropogenic trace substances and isotopes as ’dyes’ or as ‘radioactive clocks.’ He also studies ocean/atmosphere gas exchange; reconstruction of continental paleotemperature records using groundwater as archive; anthropogenic impact on natural systems and sustainable development as academic discipline. His research adds to the basic understanding of ocean circulation and the ocean's role in climate. The same principles are used to investigate groundwater flow in shallow and deep aquifers, providing results that are relevant for environmental risk and impact studies. He has published more than 180 articles in leading journals.

Over the last decade Chris was instrumental in developing the LSX and GSX Module and Racking System for Lumos Solar, disruptive solar technologies that have changed the way home and business owners perceive solar energy. His innovations in solar product development have married elements of traditional solar with BIPV to create truly unique solar solutions that add architectural benefits to any solar installation. Today he is focused on product development across several industries and strives to help companies develop their products through his consulting business SolMotiv Design. Chris is also deeply involved with integrating the solar and building industries through his work with the Architectural Solar Association (ASA).

Catherine Sanderson is the Manwell Family Professor of Life Sciences (Psychology) at Amherst College.  Her research has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health and she has published over 25 journal articles and book chapters in addition to four college textbooks, middle school and high school health textbooks, and trade books on parenting as well as how mindset influences happiness, health, and even how long we live (The Positive Shift). In 2012, she was named one of the country's top 300 professors by the Princeton Review. Professor Sanderson speaks regularly for public and corporate audiences on topics such as the science of happiness, the power of emotional intelligence, the mind-body connection, and the psychology of good and evil. These talks have been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, CNN, and CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley. She also writes a blog for Psychology Today - Norms Matter - that examines the power of social influence on virtually all aspects of our lives.

Richard Mori is the Co-Founder and CEO of Xpower, a company that is focused on energy and internet access in the developing world. Xpower is also the parent company to MeshPower, which brings clean electricity to rural villages in Rwanda, using solar microgrids that power homes and empower economic development.

Call to Action:Learn more about Vote Solar: https://votesolar.org/about-us/Learn more about their mission: https://votesolar.org/about-us/mission/ 

Call to ActionApply to the Cleantech Open 2020 accelerator: https://www.cleantechopen.org/en/challenge/2020-cto-accelerator 

Calls to ActionRead Kelsey's recent editorial in the Daily Camera: https://www.timescall.com/2020/02/15/kelsey-grant-christianity-and-climate-change/Learn more about the Citizen's Climate Lobby: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/  

Learn more about Solomon's book and events: https://www.solomongr.com/Follow Solomon on Twitter: @SolomonG_R 

Calls to ActionLearn more about the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University. Learn more about the Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest 2020: https://everythingchange.submittable.comTo read Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II, which collects the grand prize winner and finalists from the 2018 contest, visit https://climateimagination.asu.edu/everything-change-vol-2.