Energy and Development in China: Report Back from the field
When and where: Thursday, May 18, 7pm - Tresidder Oak West

-How is one of the fastest-growing nations in the world dealing with rising energy demand?

-Come hear students share their first-hand experiences and impressions from an all-access energy field trip to China.

Highlights include:
Green Building, Wind Energy, Coal Trends, Solar Panel Manufacturing, Solar Hot Water, Energy Policy, Influence of NGOs, Air Pollution

 

For more information, please contact joshuahatch@stanford.edu

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OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

       
By TOM DASCHLE and VINOD KHOSLA
Published: May 8, 2006, New York Times
Washington, D.C.

ON Wednesday, the White House proposed to overhaul fuel economy standards for automobiles by making them "size based," with differing requirements for big and small cars. Automakers worry that any revisions will hurt their business; environmentalists oppose the administration's plan, and its earlier proposal for revising mileage standards for light trucks, as not going far enough. But a debate on Corporate Average Fuel Economy, known as CAFE, misses the point; if we are serious about reducing our dependence on imported oil, we need to shift our focus.

Our addiction to oil underlies the greatest threats to our country's stability and prosperity: we pump billions of dollars into fundamentalist "petrolist" regimes in the Middle East and release into the atmosphere carbon from petroleum products, perpetuating global warming and aggravating natural disasters from the Gulf Coast to the Indian Ocean.

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