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Innovation in Cleantech + Market Opportunity = Solutions for the Planet
Environmental Innovation Practicum
ENTRE 443/543, ENGR 498, ENVIR 495 (2 credits)
Tuesdays 4-5:50 pm, Paccar Hall 290
~No prerequisites, recommended for juniors, seniors and grad students~
Discover the universe of cleantech solutions to our most pressing environmental issues. Click here for
a complete listing of speakers. In teams, you’ll identify an
environmental problem and present your solution to the class. Although
not required, teams are invited to compete in the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge March 31, 2016.
A sample of fall’s great speaker line-up: Nancy Floyd, NthPower, San FranciscoFounder
and Managing Director of Nth Power, the pioneering energy venture
capital firm. Nth Power has $420M under management and has invested in
58 companies, some of the market leaders in renewable energy, energy
efficiency, smart grid, clean transportation and green buildings.Ron Pernick, Clean Edge, PortlandFounder
and managing director of Clean Edge. He is the coauthor of Clean Tech
Nation and The Clean Tech Revolution. At Clean Edge, he has coauthored
more than three dozen reports on clean technologies, markets, and
policies. He has taught MBA-level courses at Portland State University
and New College.Jesse Morris, Rocky Mountain Institute, ColoradoInvolved
in RMI’s disruptor program Jesse works with his team to help expand
distributed energy resource deployment across the globe. His background
in electricity also feeds into
RMI’s current work with the Caribbean islands.
He works with energy storage companies, smart control providers,
utilities, and the regulatory community to help distributed energy
resources become an integral, widely-accessible part of the global
electricity system.
