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American Solar Energy Society 303-443-3130 • fax: 303-443-3212 •
www.ases.org • ases@ases.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brad Collins Tel. 303/443-3130 E-mails: bcollins@ases.org January 31, 2007 warming, Americans are asking one question: What can we do about it? The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) has an answer: Deploy clean energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies now! On Wednesday morning, January 31, 2007 at a press conference in unveiled a 200-page report, Tackling Climate Change in the Reductions from Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy by 2030. The result of more than a year of study, the report illustrates how energy efficiency and renewable
energy technologies can provide the emissions reductions required to address global
warming. The press event included remarks from report editor Chuck
Kutscher, ASES Executive Director Brad Collins, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) climate scientist James Hansen, Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope,
and several members of Congress. According to Hansen, “We must begin fundamental
changes in our energy use now in order to avoid human-made climate disasters.” To develop the report, ASES recruited a volunteer team of top energy
experts. These experts produced a series of nine papers that examined how energy
efficiency and renewable energy technologies can reduce ASES collected the nine papers together and added an overview of
the studies to create the report. It covers energy efficiency in buildings, transportation,
and industry, as well as six renewable energy technologies: concentrating solar power,
photovoltaics, wind power, biomass, biofuels, and geothermal power. The results indicate that
these technologies can displace approximately 1.2 billion tons of carbon emissions
annually by the year 2030—the magnitude of reduction that scientists believe is necessary to
prevent the most dangerous consequences of climate change. Report available at: http://www.ases.org/climatechange/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anne M. Woiwode, State Director, Sierra Club 517-484-2372 fax 517-484-3108 -- anne.woiwode@sierraclub.org Sierra Club Michigan Chapter celebrating our 40th
Anniversary on September 9, 2007 Visit us at http://michigan.sierraclub.org/index.shtml "Conservation is never complete. To conserve is the act of
preservation: the very name implies an ongoing process." Dr. Edgar Wayburn, past president of Sierra Club |