CUNY PODCASTS -- The Solar Solution

Tria Case
Executive Director
Bronx Community College
Center for Sustainable Energy

August 22nd, 2007

New York City must look to solar power to help solve its ongoing energy needs, says Tria Case, executive director of the CUNY Center for Sustainable Energy at Bronx Community College. In her lecture entitled “New York City’s Renewable Energy Future,” Case cites rising gas prices, pollution levels, dependence on imported fuels, as well as an ever increasing need for more energy, as the reason. Case is among the optimists who predict that, with government support, solar energy could generate about 20% of the city’s total energy use and help reduce dependence on carbon fuels, stabilize energy prices, improve the environment and even lower the occurrence of blackouts, possibly eliminating them altogether.

Listen now: http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/radio/podcast/lecture_50.mp3