Pathways to 1.5C Flyer

The Center for Water & The Environment's 

Forum on Energy and Economic Development (FEED) presents

"Pathways to 1.5C" with Tin Dinwoodie

Fri. October 27th 10 AM - Kendall 207-209 (Chico State campus)

Continue the conversation with Tom Dinwoodie about climate change solutions. He will present scenarios to limit global average temperature increases by the end of the century to approximately 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, a goal that most analysts see as nearly impossible to achieve.

BIO: Tom Dinwoodie is a serial entrepreneur with over 40 years’ experience with climate solutions technologies. He is a co-founder of SunPower Corporation, where he served as CEO, then CTO of SunPower Corporation Systems. He is former Chair of the Rocky Mountain Institute board, and has served on the boards of Etrion Corporation, Keystone Tower Systems, Fenix Int’l, and Solar Mosaic, Inc., as well as the Sierra Club's Climate Cabinet and Scientific Advisory Panel. Dinwoodie holds numerous patents on PV and related products. He holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and an M.A. in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley