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(Part 2 of 2) My biggest hope is Energy Week 2023 goes off without a hitch. I’m grateful to co-lead the project along with Carley Tucker, an MEM/MBA student. We've got undergrads, folks in the Nicholas School, fellow Sanford students.

Seeing the team buy into the vision Carley and I set, to make sure we’re talking about how to move from rhetoric to reality – that’s our tagline – creating a just and clean energy transition, has been great.

We're in a moment where the policy framework for clean energy has changed dramatically.

If there’s one takeaway to Energy Week, it’s that climate conversations don't always have to be depressing, even though the problems facing us are daunting, and can feel overwhelming.

There are lots of good people helping address the most intractable issues. And while there's no guarantee of success in fighting the climate crisis, there are certainly people fighting the good fight. And at the very least, that's something I want to be a part of. And I hope people will leave Energy Week feeling the same way.

I hope we create space for uncomfortable truths to be heard and reckoned with, and that relationships are cultivated at the events themselves. And those connections will endure and continue to be of value to people.

We hope people leave recognizing that there are more questions to be answered than possibly could be, even in a week-long series of events, that people leave with some sense of excitement and passion to explore the avenues or thoughts provoked during the conversations of Energy Week. – Ian Hitchcock MPP/24
The 8th annual Energy Week at Duke University kicks off Monday 11/6! Events will focus on the theme “Creating a Just Clean Energy Transition: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality.” Organized by dozens of students across Duke programs, the week includes events examining U.S. climate policy, energy justice in North Carolina, and challenges involving minerals critical to the clean energy transition.

Questions? Contact student co-chairs Ian Hitchcock and Carley Tucker at energyweek@duke.edu

www.energyweekatduke.org

(Part 2 of 2) My biggest hope is Energy Week 2023 goes off without a hitch. I’m grateful to co-lead the project along with Carley Tucker, an MEM/MBA student. We’ve got undergrads, folks in the Nicholas School, fellow Sanford students.

Seeing the team buy into the vision Carley and I set, to make sure we’re talking about how to move from rhetoric to reality – that’s our tagline – creating a just and clean energy transition, has been great.

We’re in a moment where the policy framework for clean energy has changed dramatically.

If there’s one takeaway to Energy Week, it’s that climate conversations don’t always have to be depressing, even though the problems facing us are daunting, and can feel overwhelming.

There are lots of good people helping address the most intractable issues. And while there’s no guarantee of success in fighting the climate crisis, there are certainly people fighting the good fight. And at the very least, that’s something I want to be a part of. And I hope people will leave Energy Week feeling the same way.

I hope we create space for uncomfortable truths to be heard and reckoned with, and that relationships are cultivated at the events themselves. And those connections will endure and continue to be of value to people.

We hope people leave recognizing that there are more questions to be answered than possibly could be, even in a week-long series of events, that people leave with some sense of excitement and passion to explore the avenues or thoughts provoked during the conversations of Energy Week. – Ian Hitchcock MPP/24 #HumansofDukeSanford #MPP

The 8th annual Energy Week at Duke University kicks off Monday 11/6! Events will focus on the theme “Creating a Just Clean Energy Transition: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality.” Organized by dozens of students across Duke programs, the week includes events examining U.S. climate policy, energy justice in North Carolina, and challenges involving minerals critical to the clean energy transition.

Questions? Contact student co-chairs Ian Hitchcock and Carley Tucker at energyweek@duke.edu