We are delighted to welcome Dan Reicher of Warren, Vermont as the inaugural speaker in our newly-established Marshall Webb Climate Action Talks series.
Dan has been advancing clean energy, climate progress and environmental protection in government, business, academia and NGOs throughout his distinguished career. He worked in three presidential administrations (Obama, Clinton and Carter), including as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Chief of Staff at the Department of Energy. Dan also co-founded the first U.S. clean energy project finance firm, New Energy Capital, was Director of Climate and Energy Initiatives at Google, and a litigator at the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He advocates for clean energy, climate progress, land conservation, and river protection (including on the president’s council of American Rivers). Now he is advancing the clean energy transition at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, including leading Stanford’s Uncommon Dialogues on large-scale solar development and land conservation, electricity transmission siting and cost allocation, and hydropower and river conservation.
In 2018, Dan kayaked the Rio Grande; In 1977, as a Dartmouth student, he was a member of the first expedition to navigate the entire 1900-mile river, sponsored by National Geographic. He’s also a board member of Yestermorrow, a Vermont design and build school that has brought many students to Shelburne Farms to build from trees Marshall carefully harvested from our woodlands.
In one of the first events in our sustainably-rehabilitated Coach Barn, Dan will reflect on his experience on all sides of the climate conversation - from policy to finance to technology to conservation. He will also share about his pioneering work bringing adverse parties together – including an upcoming Uncommon Dialogue initiative here in the Northeast. Finally, Dan will explain why he is still hopeful that we can make progress to address climate change.
Made possible with support from the Wayne Holloman Price Foundation.
