Kirby Calvert - Engaging People in the Energy Transition
Promethea Rising
English - June 12, 2020 13:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBEarth Sciences Science energy literacy climate change climate action community energy energy efficiency climate emergency energy transitions Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kirby Calvert is an Associate Professor with the Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph. As a social scientist, he brings an important perspective to the practice of community energy planning. Very early in his academic career, he saw the importance of engaging people in the energy transition and it has had a big influence on his approach to research.
“I think that there is a deep need to maintain focus on people throughout this transition and not to get too hung up on all the technologies but to think about people. I think if we start there, we have something to work with, but there is no question that we need this transition to happen. We just need to make this transition brings people along with it.”
Music Credit: Andrew McPherson, Forest for the Trees