Electricity demand is soaring, energy affordability has become a kitchen-table concern, and the path to sustainability has never been more contested. What technologies, policies, and leadership strategies can deliver a sustainable future with affordable, reliable energy and a healthy economy?
Join Georgia Tech's Marilyn Brown, Valerie Thomas, and Susan Graff as they celebrate two new Springer Nature books — Energy Technology and Policy Innovation and Sustainability Leaders: A Guide to Transforming Organizations — and explore competing visions for change. Drawing on research and real-world experience, this lively conversation will challenge assumptions, examine trade-offs, and ask who should lead, who should pay, and how to turn promising ideas into lasting progress.
About the Books
Drawing on 20 years of teaching thousands of Georgia Tech students together, Brown and Thomas developed Energy Technology and Policy Innovation to bring the scientific principles and practical tools needed for informed energy decision-making into a single resource. Adapted from their course materials, the book uses data, formulas, graphics, case studies, and analytical tools to examine energy technologies and the policies that shape their development and use.
In Sustainability Leaders, Graff draws on decades of industry, executive, and public-sector leadership experience to show how organizations can move from sustainability goals to measurable results. Grounded in systems thinking and a cross-disciplinary approach, the book offers practical frameworks and operational methods for topics including life cycle management, corporate circularity, and organizational change.
Together, the authors will draw on research, teaching, and real-world experience for a lively conversation that challenges assumptions, examines trade-offs, and asks who should lead, who should pay, and how promising ideas can become lasting progress.