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Today's guest, Anna Siefken has spent her career making the business case for energy efficiency, cleantech innovation, and building performance as a means to address the world’s energy challenges and the global urgency of climate change.
She is the inaugural Executive Director of The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University. Through programming, targeted outreach, and partnerships, she guides the Institute’s efforts to optimize energy resources, reduce the environmental impacts of energy production and use, and develop breakthrough technologies that will have a meaningful impact and accelerate the transition to a sustainable low-carbon energy future.
In 2020, Anna was appointed by the U.S. Department of Energy as a U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Initiative Ambassador. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) selected Siefken for the 2018 Energy Executives Leadership Academy. That same year, she represented CMU as part of a City of Pittsburgh delegation to study district energy systems planning in Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark, at the invitation of the Danish Energy Agency.
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Resources
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DOWNLOAD the IMPACT Annual Report
Book mentioned:
Drawdown - Paul Hawken