Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Beyond Fossil Fuels: Renewable Energy in America's Future

Date and Time
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location
Law School 4047

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Sponsored by the Duke Energy Law Society, the Duke Undergraduate Energy Club and the Energy Initiative

Author and lawyer Philip Warburg will present a talk examining America's prospects for building a sustainable energy future with solar and wind power at its core. Drawing on extensive field research, Warburg will assess the diverse and often complementary applications of these two renewable energy technologies, as well as their interaction with energy law.

Philip Warburg is the former president of the Conservation Law Foundation, New England's leading environmental advocacy group, and a past director of the Israel Union for Environmental Defense in Tel Aviv. At the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C., he also worked extensively with environmental law and policy reform in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Warburg is the author of Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability (Beacon Press, 2012) and Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future (2015).