Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond

Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond


What is Clean Energy? (Season 2, Ep. 2)

May 28, 2019

Every time we think we’ve seen how badly climate change is impacting us, we see another level of damage. The fall of 2018 saw the destruction of an entire California town by wildfires. Climate impacts are forcing millions of people worldwide to migrate. The need for the clean energy transition is clear, the debate is now about how fast and in what way it needs to happen.

In this episode, we begin with basic questions: What makes energy clean—or not? What are “transition fuels" and do we have time to develop them?

To explore them, we turn to Sierra Club BC’s Senior Forest and Climate Campaigner Jens Wieting and energy policy researcher Zoë Yunker. We hear from Molly Wickham, a spokesperson for the Gidimt'en Clan of the Wet'suwet'en Nation on the real impacts of one so-called “transition fuel.” And we have insightful conversations with National Observer journalist Emilee Gilpin and award winning author and sustainability expert Guy Dauncey on the urgency of this transition to clean energy.

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