🚀 Game-changing federal policies have been driving a clean energy boom in California and across America — but many of these policies are now at risk. It will be up to states, businesses – and particularly the next generation of clean energy leaders – to forge new paths to a cleaner economy.. It will be up to states, businesses – and particularly the next generation of clean energy leaders – to forge new paths to a cleaner economy.
Please join CELI, E2 and our partners during San Francisco Climate Week for a discussion with leading clean economy policy and industry innovators.
💡We’ll hear about cutting edge energy policy innovation from CA state Senator Josh Becker, and leaders of a cleantech business accelerator and a nonprofit advocacy organization on the frontlines of the clean economy, including Caroline Spears, Deepa Lounsbury, and Bob Keefe. And together, we’ll learn how we can take action to keep clean energy progress going despite setbacks in Washington, D.C.
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Senator Josh Becker
Senator Josh Becker is a public policy innovator working at the nexus of community activism, technology and social justice. Elected to the State Senate in November 2020, Senator Becker represents the residents of California’s 13th Senate District, which comprises most of San Mateo County and the northern part of Santa Clara County.
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Caroline Spears
Caroline Spears is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Cabinet, which helps climate champions run, win, and legislate on climate. Caroline has a B.S. and M.S. in Atmosphere and Energy Engineering from Stanford University, and has been featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, on NBC, and Volts by David Roberts.
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Deepa Lounsbury
Deepa is the CEO of LabStart, which unlocks breakthrough climate innovations out of our national labs and research institutions as well as undercapitalized entrepreneurial talent to launch deep climate technology startups. She has spent the last two decades bringing innovative climate and clean energy products, programs, and initiatives to life. This includes bringing a new residential battery product to market at Enphase Energy, building out the $35M California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program to fund early stage entrepreneurs, setting up GE’s first distributed energy platform, commercializing a demand side flexibility software product at a startup, and investing at one of the earliest clean energy venture capital firms, Angeleno Group. Deepa holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group.
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Bob Keefe
Bob Keefe is E2’s executive director, overseeing all aspects of E2’s work and its staff and chapters stretching from New York to San Diego. Bob speaks regularly about the clean energy economy and the economic benefits of smart environmental policies. He has testified before Congress and numerous state legislatures and has appeared in media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Fox, CNN and others. Bob is the author of two books on the economics of climate change: “Climatenomics: Washington Wall Street and the Economic Battle to Save Our Planet” (2022) and “Clean Economy NOW: Stories from the Frontlines of an American Business Revolution” (2024) and co-author of several other business-related books. Prior to joining E2 in 2011, Bob spent more than 20 years as a journalist, covering business, political, national and environmental news from coast to coast. He served as the Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; as a California-based national reporter for Cox Newspapers/Cox News Service; as technology editor for the Austin (TX) American-Statesman and as a business and investigative reporter at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and The Greenville (SC) News. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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