How to pronounce “renewable” in English

And that can often be overlooked.renewable energy. There's a lot that goes on that's very accessible on the local level that people can get involved in.

So if you think of 2,000 varieties of wine coming from one species, imagine the possibilities in terms of agricultural products, spices,renewable energy sources, medicines coming from rain forest plants, where as I said, we're looking at between 40,000 and 80,000 speciesof flowering plants in the Amazon alone.

Just to give you a sense of the raw potential of solar power this is a map that was created using data from the NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory. It was created by Environment America.And the states that appear in red, there 19 of them, have 100 times or more-- or more than 100 times

and Google Talk. So, it is my great pleasure to introduce Jeff Goodell. Three of the five main arms of the google.org deal with sustainability issues and finding renewable resources andrenewable energy that costs less than coal-powered, for example. And so, we're always very keen on new ideas on, in the sustainability and the environmental front. And Jeff brings ustoday a particularly compelling story, in this case, on geoengineering and its effects and its potential solutions for the global warming issues. So, Jeff is a contributing

government is obeying the law and is considering approving a new power plant should it be coal or should it berenewable energy or something else uh one of the things it has to respond tois this concern over climate change driving species into Extinction uh and

his answer was, I don't know that we'll ever see the end of the age of oil, but I do know that the Stone Age didn't endrenewables are going to win hands down.

Most of the major diseases were vaccinated against or preventable.Renewables are competitive against fossil fuels.

pull talking to these guys what do we say when we meet with Salazar and Ritter guys you rock you're doing great work onrenewables so we're further reinforcing and we're business people we're not environmentalists 300 people in thecommunity showed up yeah we serve beer we provided food but this was inspirational it was an event think of

But now the whole globe, through internet commerce, is a large market.from renewable plant sources.

And he has added 24 companies to his portfolio across e-commerce, financial technology, educational technology, mobile television, retail,and renewable energy. Let's welcome our speaker.Mr. Nadeem, you had-- You can call me Nadeem.

Utilities are very nervous about solar penetration for a variety of reasons.upon renewable resources. Yes?

We're trying hard in our corporate operations and in our data center operations to save energy and power thingswith renewable energy, be that here with the solar panels on the roof or in data centers, where we've done .And where we also worked really hard to save, literally, a factor of two in terms of the amount of power required to run a certain workload.

So those I think are two examples of how the science can be turned into an actual product, with a financing product around it. Which has been very very beneficial. Now, in closing,own renewable source,that 41 percent of that light power is coming from gas powered fire plants. Gas powered plants. Who are getting an increasing portion of that gas from the

we have a lot to build on. Emissions had been declining in this country and not just because of the recession. In the great state of Texas, a governor named George W. Bush, passed amandatory renewable energy standard, a renewable electricity standard in, I believe the year was 2009 that it took effect. It's now been taking effect, it's now been in effect fora decade and it has helped give birth to the Texas wind industry, which has created something like ten thousand jobs. It has created ten gigawatts of wind-powered electric generation

mean I guess in terms of the policy side when you were asking your second question I mean I'm a big part of mysustainability renewable technology that I I lack and so like I think it's really interesting to go around talking to people hearing the different

in renewable energy business schools clearly have recognized this desire and are adding more and more

harnessing renewable sources of energy all created verifiable offset to eliminate or neutralize all greenhouse gas contribution to global climate disruption.

more renewables and not do fossil. And the world sees that. Um I'm not like a,

his answer was, I don't know that we'll ever see the end of the age of oil, but I do know that the Stone Age didn't endthe renewables would just take over.

promote a more rapid renewable build-out. So, I think we're in a place now where, you know, if you're talking about this as a race, if you're talking

And the price of renewable energy is going down very fast.

We've seen every major utility now sign on to a net zero goal, recognizing that their generation mix is increasinglygoing to be renewable.We've seen trillions and trillions of dollars from the world's investment banks go into climate solutions and now going out of fossil fuels.

We have renewable energy.

Isn't it renewable energy, right?

It's also a renewable resource.

And then we can recycle 1.4 billion pounds of carbon material every year and have a perpetual carbon industry, if we design it cradle to cradle and it's safe and healthy,and we use renewable power and so on.Change the carpet, the world gets better, more jobs.

guys are doing with renewable energy it's very in line right you you have a goal of being 100% renewable right that's what all major companies need to

For some, there's satisfaction in trimming at least a bit of their carbon footprint by generating at least part, or a substantial part of,their power from renewable sources.And for others there's a satisfaction in taking charge of at least some of the power that we consume in our daily lives.

Which brings me back to talk about what can we achieve within our towns and cities?And the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which is the government's laboratory to invest in renewable energy, did a study and it's estimated that we could begetting a fifth of our total power needs from rooftop solar alone.

It's also completely renewable too.

The goals were-- Renewable-- --in terms of air pollution, which of course is a huge issue.

We want a renewable sort of carbon.

It's a renewable bioplastic derived from corn, so it smells good when you make things with it, which is-- you'd be surprised

Then we get renewable energy credits on the back end.

transit or renewable energy systems.

me to a dinner and at that dinner was Professor Mark Jacobson. And a lot of other really influentialpeople in the renewable space. And what I started to hear was what I believed in my heart. Was that we actually could make this transition. Without introducing an entirenew fossil fuel infrastructure to our nation that would cost us 700 billion dollars to

grid where those different renewable sources can balance each other um and then we would have a large supply of

test for a renewable for me does it meet the Chia price the price at which it would be

innovate in this renewable energy space at all it was just utilizing the brand the infrastructure the

that with renewables and have you know electricity at night or when the wind doesn't blow or when it's really dark and extremely cold in Alaska and so I

power just like renewables is power for the people it's about ideas using smarter not using resources to get energy they're using some resources but

In the renewables, in the request for applications, the call, one example given that has not been supported

replace fossil fuels with Renewables which has to take place everywhere on Earth at the moment we're going exactly the opposite direction because we and

gas and renewables which have balanced uses what do I mean by balanced uses it means in the case of natural gas that

an example so renewables it's interesting most of us think of renewables I did I thought renewables

perception that renewables don't make sense without government intervention in the private cause social

than 100% of its electricity from renewable energy at night. When the Sun

or wind turbines that create the renewable energy in the first place, or even things like water, land, or money.

The technology is there-- switching to renewable energy and clean energy, and reforming modern agriculture so that it really uses