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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:NERS Colloquium: How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Solar energy’s path to widespread adoption provides a successful model that can be applied to other technologies we will need to address climate change.\n\nSolar photovoltaics (PV) has become a substantial global industry—a truly disruptive technology that has generated trade disputes among superpowers\, threatened the solvency of large energy companies\, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s.  But\,\n\nHow did solar become inexpensive?  And why did it take so long?\nAs a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow I had the opportunity to dive deeply into these questions\, drawing on new data sets\, analyses\, and interviewing 75 individuals in 18 countries.  The concept of National Innovation Systems provides a theoretical structure for this assessment and helps explain that PV’s success has been the result of distinct contributions mainly by the US\, Japan\, Germany\, Australia\, and China—in that sequence.  Flows of knowledge from one country to another—often embodied in equipment\, and also as tacit knowledge in the heads of internationally mobile individuals—have been central to solar’s progress.  One payoff from understanding the reasons for solar’s success is that it can serve as a model for other low-carbon technologies.  I focus on direct air carbon capture and small nuclear reactors.  However other technologies would have to progress much faster than PV to be helpful for climate change.  Possible approaches for accelerating innovation include: dynamic R&D foci\, codification of knowledge\, public procurement\, robust markets\, enhancing knowledge mobility\, and addressing political economy considerations. \n\nSpeaker: Professor Gregory F. Nemet\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nGregory Nemet is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the La Follette School of Public Affairs.  He teaches courses in policy analysis\, energy systems\, and international environmental policy.  Nemet's research focuses on understanding the process of technological change and the ways in which public policy can affect it.  He received his doctorate in energy and resources from the University of California\, Berkeley. His A.B. is in geography and economics from Dartmouth College.  He received an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2017 and used it to write a book on how solar PV provides lessons for the development of other low-carbon technologies: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation” (Routledge 2019).  He was awarded the inaugural World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance by APPAM in 2019.  He is currently a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70140
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Earth Day At 50,Energy,Engineering,Environment,Nuclear Engineering And Radiological Sciences,Sustainability,colloquium
LOCATION:Cooley Building - White Room
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SUMMARY:Other:Koru Mindfulness Basic Class
DESCRIPTION:Koru Mindfulness Basic class is a four-week course focused to help reduce stress\, better sleep\, improve self-judgment\, and support overall wellbeing. Whether you have practiced mindfulness before or are new to it\, you are more than welcomed to stop by!\nPlease secure your seat at the link below:\nhttps://student.korumindfulness.org/course-detail.html?course_id=2871
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70940
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Psychology,Well-being,Undergraduate,Mindfulness,Graduate,Free
LOCATION:School of Education - 2320
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DTSTAMP:20200126T214949
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Activist Love Letters
DESCRIPTION:Activist Love Letters is a participatory performance & workshop with artist Syrus Marcus Ware that invites participants to think about their role in sustaining a movement and supporting their communities. If you could reach out to one person who moves you by what they do\, who would it be? What would you say? \n \nThis event is presented in partnership with the U-M Trotter Multicultural Center and the Spectrum Center LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week. Activist Love Letters will be held in the Sankofa Lounge. Refreshments will be served.\n \nSyrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier Scholar\, visual artist\, community activist\, researcher\, youth-advocate and educator. For 12 years\, he was the Coordinator of the Art Gallery of Ontario Youth Program. Syrus is currently a facilitator/designer for the Cultural Leaders Lab (Toronto Arts Council & The Banff Centre) and is the inaugural artist-in-residence for Daniels Spectrum (2016/2017). He is a core-team member of Black Lives Matter Toronto. \n\nAs a visual artist\, Syrus works within the mediums of painting\, installation and performance to challenge systemic oppression. Syrus’ work explores the spaces between and around identities\; acting as provocations to our understandings of gender\, sexuality and race. His work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario\, the Art Gallery of Windsor\, the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery\, Art Gallery of York University (AGYU)\, Gladstone Hotel\, ASpace Gallery\, Harbourfront Centre\, SPIN Gallery and other galleries across Canada. Syrus holds degrees in Art History\, Visual Studies and a Masters in Sociology and Equity Studies\, University of Toronto. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. \n\nImage: Syrus Marcus Ware\, installation view of Activist Love Letters\, 2012 - ongoing. Courtesy the artist. \n\nPlease RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/activist-love-letters-tickets-86153949783 
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/71056
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Activism,Social Justice,LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week,LGBT,Inclusion,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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