A panel discussion about the market challenges and opportunities of the transition to renewable energy will be held on Wednesday evening.

Panelists include:

• Susan Bladholm is the founder and president of Frog Ferry, a nonprofit grassroots initiative to bring a world-class passenger ferry service to the Portland metro region.
• Mica Miro is the engagement manager at Green Empowerment, working with in-country partner organizations to build clean water and renewable energy infrastructure with Indigenous and rural communities across the globe
• Olivia Cowly (’23) LC alumna will share her senior thesis work, “ Is the future electric? What the renewable energy revolution means for the ocean’s seabeds.”
• Joe Wachunas from the New Buildings Institute

The panel will be moderated by Yuko Aoyama and Clarence Edwards will provide closing comments.

Keynote presentations by Yuko Aoyama, an industrial economic geographer, and Clarence Edwards, a legislative advocate on climate change and US foreign policy.  The title of Dr. Aoyama’s talk is Variable Capitalisms: Understanding Fixity, Fluidity, and Hybridity. The title of Mr. Edwards’ talk is The Type of Capitalism You Practice Matters. The two presentations will be followed by a discussion lead by Jessica Kleiss, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, and audience Q&A.

Energy Bar Association’s Western Chapter, Oregon State Bar’s Energy, Telecom, & Utility law Section, and the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School Co-Sponsored Half-Day Conference

Friday, September 15, 2023 | 8 am – 12:30 pm | Lewis & Clark Law School Campus, Portland, OR

Join Green Energy Institute Staff Attorney, Carra Sahler as she moderates a panel via Zoom on how we may see the IRA used in ways we may not expect and what implementation actions will look like over the next year with Dan Esposito and Hadley Tallackson from Energy Innovation and Alex Piper from the RMI.