Steven Chu was appointed as US energy secretary by President Barack Obama. Prior to this, he was director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1997, he won the Nobel Prize in physics.
Aggressive support of energy science and technology, coupled with incentives to accelerate the development and deployment of innovative solutions, can transform energy demand and supply.
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The Stanford Social Innovation Review is written for and by social change leaders in the nonprofit, business, and government sectors. Sample articles of particular interest to readers of What Matters are available below.
by Ben Hecht. Living Cities is working with five US municipalities to develop an ecosystem for solving urban problems.
by Clayton M. Christensen, Shuman Talukdar, Richard Alton, and Michael B. Horn. Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.