StateImpact Pennsylvania reporter Amy Sisk, left, with panelists Paulina Jaramillo, Greg Reed and Ivonne Peña at a public event in Pittsburgh Tuesday Jan. 29 called "The future of energy: Can we get to zero carbon?" Sisk and StateImpact reporter Reid Frazier moderated the discussion at the Energy Innovation Center in Pittsburgh.
Scott Blanchard was WITF and StateImpact Pennsylvania's former director of journalism, he worked on things like newsroom strategy, culture, ethics, and training. He worked with reporters (mainly climate reporter Rachel McDevitt) on stories and was deeply involved with our community engagement efforts and collaborations with other news organizations.
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StateImpact Pennsylvania reporter Amy Sisk, left, with panelists Paulina Jaramillo, Greg Reed and Ivonne Peña at a public event in Pittsburgh Tuesday Jan. 29 called "The future of energy: Can we get to zero carbon?" Sisk and StateImpact reporter Reid Frazier moderated the discussion at the Energy Innovation Center in Pittsburgh.
Recent reports stress the urgency of reducing carbon emissions to check the worst effects of climate change. At a public event Jan. 29 at the Energy Innovation Center in Pittsburgh, a distinguished panel waded into the possibilites, obstacles and potential solutions.
The panelists:
Paulina Jaramillo, associate professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and co-director of the Green Design Institute; Ivonne Peña, an energy analyst who has worked for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the U.S. and the Colombia’s Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission; and Greg Reed, a professor of electric power engineering at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering, and director of Pitt’s Center for Energy and the Energy GRID Institute.
StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Reid Frazier and Amy Sisk moderated the panel, and this ‘energy, explained’ podcast episode brings you the best of the discussion:
A collection of interviews, photos, and music videos, featuring local musicians who have stopped by the WITF performance studio to share a little discussion and sound. Produced by WITF’s Joe Ulrich.