Jules Keniry of the National Wildlife Federation took notes and wrote them up in this guest post:
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Three Lessons for US Higher Education from World’s
Leading Clean Economy Entrepreneur
Yesterday, the founder
of SunEdison, the largest solar services company worldwide, Jigar Shah, discussed
his new book, Climate Wealth: Unlockingthe Impact Economy, with members of the Green Business Roundtable. He
challenged business and other stakeholders to step up in ways that will “seize
hold of the biggest wealth generating opportunity in a generation.”
A “100 by 100” Plan and Higher Education
Through the "100
x 100 Plan,” Shah details in his recent blog post on the Corporate EcoForum, how
100,000 companies can sell $100 million worth of solar, energy efficiency,
ground-source heat pumps and other climate change solutions that will create
the $10 trillion clean economy needed by 2020 to help prevent the worst impacts of
climate change.
When asked how higher
education could best contribute to achieving this goal, I thought he might
highlight the need for more state or federal R&D investment into clean
energy technologies as faculty members from UC-Berkeley and elsewhere often do.
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