Videos
The following videos are listed for your information. Listing does not imply endorsement by the EaSE initiative or by the University of illinois. We encourage you to review the talks critically, especially, to determine whether the speaker presents (i) reliable quantitative information, (ii) arguments based on testable mechanisms (physics, chemistry, engineering…) and (iii) a focused agenda for the future.
- Interview with Tim Lindsey, global director of sustainable development at Caterpillar (formerly UI BIS)
- Materials Research Society Forum and Workshop on “Sustainable Materials” (Fall 2012)
- Andrew Revkin speaks at U Illinois
- Scott Tinker’s film “Switch” about present and future energy
- Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize and The Quest
- Clean Energy Education National Workshop (2011 at UI)
- “Materials Efficiency” symposium at the Royal Society, London
- Don Fullerton on “How do energy policies affect the environment?”
- Center for Naval Analyses report on Energy, Climate Change and Security
- David Archer “Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast” (lecture series)
- Cliff Singer AAAS lecture on nuclear power (June 2010)
- Vaclav Smil
- Steve Koonin (as Chief Scientist of BP)
- David MacKay (6 min.)
- David MacKay (hour talk)
- Robert Sokolow
- John Harte
- R. James Woolsey – An Argument for Energy Independence
- Purdue “After Oil” podcasts
- Shahzeen Attari NPR spot on energy savings
- PBS Manual for the Earth
- Amory Lovins
Web Sites
- The Illini Energy Dashboard of campus energy use (with detail for major buildings)
- Real-time national wind map
- Smart Energy Design Assistance Center: Archive of Talks
- Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis
- Energy Information Agency
- ASHRAE Engineering for Sustainability
- UI NPRE Energy 201 Course
- NEED resource maps
- NPR’s Climate Change archive
- MacKay’s Book on Renewable Energy
- UK Climate Change site
- UK 2050 Calculator Tool
- Elsevier Encyclopedia of Energy
- Kammin’s Computational Tools for Low-C Power
- NREL’s Energy Analysis Site
- NREL Energy Portfolio 2050
- Liz Moyer’s Science, Technology and Human Uses of Energy
- The Gapminder site of world statistics
- The MIT-DOE “Clean Energy Ministerial”
Books
- Online book: “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation” by the UI Open Source Textbook Initiative