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Hal Harvey
Born1961 (age 62–63)[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University (BS)
Stanford University (MS)
Occupations
  • founder
  • advisor
  • activist
  • author
TitleCEO

Hal Harvey (born 1961) is an American energy policy advisor.[2] He is the founder of Energy Innovation.[3] Harvey was previously the CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation. He is a co-author of the book The Big Fix.

Education

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Harvey has a bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Stanford University.[1]

Career & Work

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Harvey started the Energy Foundation in 1990 and was the CEO of the foundation till 2002.[3][1] Harvey was the director of the Environment Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 2001 to 2008.[2][3][1][4][5]

Harvey was the inaugural CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation (CWF) in San Francisco. CWF grew out of the Design to Win (DTW) document produced by California Environmental Associates. The DTW document laid out certain roles for philanthropy and the CWF was meant to implement and operationalize what was there in the DTW.[6][7] ClimateWorks receives most of its funding from the Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation.[1] ClimateWorks gives grants to local foundation across the globe including in China and India.[1]

In 2004, Harvey worked on the transition team of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a consultant on climate and energy issues.[8]

Harvey co-founded the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in 2001.[9]

Harvey has been quoted by The New York Times on the implications of California's resolve to take a leading role in fighting climate change when the then President-elect Donald Trump appeared to be planning to make global warming deniers into Cabinet members in the Trump administration apart from Trump himself being sympathetic to global warming deniers. Trump had already indicated that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement under his administration.[10]

Harvey was quoted by The New York Times saying that then-President Obama's plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants was going to be "far easier and far faster and far cheaper than most people realize."[11]

Harvey discussed the "four-zero climate solution" on Greg Dalton's Climate One podcast also featuring Arun Majumdar of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Kate Gordon. This involves "a zero-emissions electric grid, zero-emission transportation, zero-emission buildings, and zero waste manufacturing."[12]

Harvey is on the advisory council of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.[13]

Harvey was the CEO of Energy Innovation based in San Francisco. The firm is focused on energy and environmental policy.[9][14]

Writing

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In 2020, Harvey was one of the people who wrote on the topic of the one thing to do right now to help fix America for The New York Times Dealbook as part of their annual event.[15]

Harvey has also written opinion articles in The New York Times with Justin Gillis[16] who is a consultant and author and covered environmental science with a special focus on climate change at The New York Times for about a decade.[17]

Harvey and Gillis write in Grist about the need for citizens to become 'climate citizens' rather than being just 'climate-conscious consumers.' They note that advocacy by millions of citizens in school boards, energy utilities, and local government will help America make the clean energy transition that is needed and to meet the emissions reductions pledge made by the Biden administration.[18]

Harvey has written in Forbes magazine about how California can play a leading role in electric vehicles (EVs) despite the Trump administration's stated desire to reverse various Obama administration climate policies and regulations. [3]

Books/Publications

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Harvey and Gillis are co-authors of the book The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet.[19] In an excerpt from The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet in Popular Science magazine, Harvey and Gillis note how wind energy was a serious idea even in the 1920s.[20] Stephen Markley has recommended The Big Fix to people who want to know what they can do about climate change.[21]

Harvey is a co-author with Paul Brest of the book Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy published by Stanford University Press.[22]

Harvey is a co-author of the book Designing Climate Solutions A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy.[23] The other co-authors of the book are Robbie Orvis of Energy Innovation and Jeffrey Rissman also of Energy Innovation. The book was chosen by Book Authority as one of the 20 Best Energy Policy Books of All Time.[24]

Awards and recognitions

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Harvey received the Heinz Awards in 2016 in the environment category. These awards were instituted in 1993 by Teresa Heinz of the Heinz Family Foundations.[25]

Harvey is a recipient of the Haagen-Smit Award for 2018 in the Policy category. The awards have been given annually by the government of California's Air Resources Board in various categories since 2001.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Paddock, Richard C. (5 December 2009). "ClimateWorks Is Carrying Out New Global Strategy". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Ball, Jeffrey (12 February 2007). "The Green Machine". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d Harvey, Hal (6 July 2020). "California Can Still Lead America And The World On Electric Vehicles - Despite Trump". forbes.com. Forbes magazine. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Doing it their way". economist.com. The Economist. 9 September 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  5. ^ Steinhauer, Jennifer; Barringer, Felicity (10 January 2007). "Schwarzenegger Orders Cuts in Emissions". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  6. ^ "ClimateWorks Foundation" (PDF). hewlett.org. Hewlett Foundation. February 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  7. ^ "DESIGN TO WIN" (PDF). seaconsulting.com. California Environmental Associates. August 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  8. ^ Good, Marcie (22 April 2004). "Schwarzenegger Far More 'Green' than Campbell". thetyee.ca. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  9. ^ a b c "Haagen-Smit Award Recipients". arb.ca.gov. California Air Resources Board. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  10. ^ Nagourney, y Adam; Fountain, Henry (27 December 2016). "California, at forefront of climate fight, won't back down to Trump". bostonglobe.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2024 – via The Boston Globe.
  11. ^ Gillis, Justin; Wines, Michael (7 June 2014). "Some states well ahead in race to cut emissions". bostonglobe.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2024 – via The Boston Globe.
  12. ^ "A Four-Zero Climate Solution". climateone.org. Climate One. 14 November 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  13. ^ Adams, Amy (5 June 2023). "Global leaders join the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Advisory Council". stanford.edu. Stanford University. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  14. ^ "Hal Harvey". aspenideas.org. Aspen Ideas Festival. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  15. ^ Harvey, Hal (November 2020). "Cut Carbon Emissions Everywhere (Starting With These Four Sectors)". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  16. ^ "Justin Gillis". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  17. ^ Harvey, Hal; Gillis, Justin (26 August 2022). "The Way to Slow Climate Change Is as Close as Your City Hall or School Board". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  18. ^ Gillis, Justin; Harvey, Hal (30 September 2022). "You're a climate-conscious consumer. It's time to become a 'climate citizen.'". grist.org. Grist. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  19. ^ "The Big Fix". simonandschuster.com. Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  20. ^ Harvey, Hal; Gillis, Justin (20 September 2022). "A century ago, wind power was a farming norm. What happened?". popsci.com. Popular Science. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  21. ^ Sutherland, Amy (16 February 2023). "'The Deluge' author Stephen Markley plays the literary lottery". bostonglobe.com. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  22. ^ "Stanford University Press". sup.org. Stanford University Press. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  23. ^ "Designing Climate Solutions". islandpress.org. Island Press. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  24. ^ "20 Best Energy Policy Books of All Time". bookauthority.org. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  25. ^ "Hal Harvey". heinzawards.org. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
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