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Suzanne Spoke at the U.S. Military and Renewable Energy Industry Forum & the Clean Defense Summit

suzanne — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:23:00 +0000

The US Navy has committed to reduce its petroleum use by 50% by 2020 and to sail a Great Green Fleet in 2016. The Air Force set a target of acquiring “50% of domestic aviation fuel requirements via alternative fuel blends by 2016.” The Air Force and the Army set the goal of increasing their “use of renewable energy to 25% by 2025.” Colleagues at the Army recently stood up an energy task force to facilitate renewable energy development on Army bases using third party finance, and the Marines are using solar panels and battery packs at forward operating bases in Afghanistan. It is an honor and a privilege to collaborate with many of the fine people who are leading this charge.

Thank you to ACORE and to the Leadership Forum folks for inviting me to participate in the recent U.S. Military and Renewable Energy Industry Forum and the Clean Defense Summit.

Suzanne Speaks at the Gigaton Awards in South Africa — Launches RenewableJetFuels.org

suzanne — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:39:53 +0000

I gave the crowd an overview of the renewable fuels and aviation work that I am doing at the Carbon War Room during the Gigaton Awards Ceremony in Durban, South Africa in December. I talked about the importance of moving away from fossil fuels despite the difficulties in shifting supply chains and procurement procedures, and renewable aviation fuels as a means to get the entire advanced renewable fuels industry off the ground (no pun intended). This was a preview to the launch of our beta renewablejetfuels.org website and the Elsevier beta renewable fuels database a few days later.

Dave Muyres addressed IDSA Transportation Conference on October 7, 2011

dmuyres — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:52:36 +0000

Dave Muyres moderated a discussion about design’s role in transportation on MSU’s Troy, Michigan campus. The panel included the chief designers of Navistar and Visteon along with design futurist and Detroit icon Larry Erickson. The theme of this year’s conference was Sharing the Road and took a broad look at transportation from the new Dreamliner to the RV industry. You can find more about this event at IDSA Michigan.

Bill Browning, co-founder of Terrapin Bright Green and HuntGreen LLC partner is the 2011 Evergreen Awards Perspective Winner

dmuyres — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:14:12 +0000

We want to congratulate Bill Browning on his recent recognition as the 2011 Evergreen Awards Perspective Winner. You can read more about Bill in the following interview, published in this month’s Eco-Structure Magazine. Bill Browning is one of the green building and real estate industry’s foremost thinkers and strategists, and an advocate for sustainable design solutions at all levels of business, government, and civil society. His expertise has been sought out by organizations as diverse as Fortune 500 companies, leading universities, non-profit organizations, the U.S. military, and foreign governments.

Suzanne on Marketplace — NPR

suzanne — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:03:16 +0000

Photo provided by the US Navy

I helped out with this piece by Marketplace’s Scott Tong that aired on August 31st, 2011. Military funding spurs clean-tech innovation

“As the Pentagon looks to cut oil use, its efforts are giving a boost to start-up technology that could one day go mainstream.”

SUZANNE HUNT: Someone has to pay for those expensive test batches. It’s very similar to what the military did with cell phones and computer chips. They were the ones that bought the big, clunky, super expensive first model.

And they may play a big cultural role in the new energy economy. Hunt says just as the military was an early institution to desegregate — soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen are now early adopters of renewables.

HUNT: They bring that knowledge and that experience back to their communities. And they tend not to be the same communities as one often things of — Silicon Valley, Manhattan — whatever people think of with clean tech.

As for alternative fuels, the military has a lot riding on it. The Air Force, Navy and Marines all hope to cut their fossil fuel use in half. But, is the technology ready? Is now the right time to bet on it?

Suzanne quoted in Forbes Magazine

suzanne — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:52:11 +0000

Photo taken from Forbes article

Forbes Magazine’s Todd Woody quoted me and other colleagues in his August 08, 2011 “Jet Green” article. Note to self, anything you say to a reporter could end up in print!

Algae is the great green hope for jet fuels. “Theoretically, algae has incredible production capacity,” says Suzanne Hunt, senior advisor to the Carbon War Room, a group cofounded by Virgin’s Richard Branson that is working with airlines and biofuel producers to jump-start the industry. “Camelina plants and all the other plants that grow on land have to put all this energy into fighting gravity and into roots and fruits and flowers. Algae just floats and grows.“

Suzanne & Dave to Co-Chair key tracks at the upcoming Creating Climate Wealth Summit in Washington DC May 3–4

suzanne — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 02:19:42 +0000

Suzanne and David will be co-hosting two important working tracks at the Carbon War Room’s most significant annual event: the Creating Climate Wealth Summit. Suzanne will convene renewable aviation fuel leaders to discuss important next steps to the sustainable commercialization of renewable aviation fuels. David Muyres will be co-hosting a new track this year focused on Personal Transportation. If we are to reach gigaton carbon reduction levels we must look at this topic more broadly: beyond policy and technology alone.

Dave Muyres Presented in Shanghai about the Future of the Auto Industry

suzanne — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:54:52 +0000

On April 15th, Dave Muyres addressed the American Chamber of Commerce regarding the role of innovation in the future of the car industry. While in Shanghai he also presented at the Interiormotives Conference to a group of 400 global design leaders about Design and the Future of the Transportation Industry on April 17th. On April 19 and 20 he attended the Shanghai AutoShow press days, Asia’s largest autoshow and blogging about changing consumer behavior. In February 2011, at the invitation of IDSA, Dave addressed a group of 300 design enthusiasts about the Role of the Industrial Designer, Sustainability and the Future of How We Move Around the Planet. This event was hosted by Design West Michigan and held at Kendall College.

Dave Muyres to Speak at IDSA Conference on Transportation Design

suzanne — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:41:28 +0000

The IDSA Michigan conference, titled Expanding the Frontiers, will focus on how to transform the car industry into a robust provider of transportation system solutions. Dave will discuss the key role of design in guiding and energizing this critical transformation. The conference will take place on September 17th, 2010 at Michigan State University in Troy, MI. For more information on the complete event, go to their website.

Suzanne Advising “Living City Block”

suzanne — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:56:34 +0000

It is estimated that by the year 2050, eighty percent of the world’s population will live in cities. In addition, the Urban Land Institute predicts that eighty percent of current building stock in the US will still be in use in the year 2050. A series of impressive efforts are underway to mobilize the financing and technologies to retrofit large buildings, but nearly half of the building stock in America is small-medium sized.

Living City Block is an initiative to help cities redesign and retrofit inefficient and/or aging buildings at the block scale and is is committed to work with communities to create resource hyper-efficient, economically sustainable and healthier and more livable neighborhoods. Aggregation of square footage at the block scale enables economies of scale for small-medium sized buildings and lends the ability to work with local governments to implement not just transformative energy solutions, but also to rework water, waste, healthier streets and other block-scale issues.

Living City Block was born at the Rocky Mountain Institute and was launched earlier this year by Llewellyn Wells.
The initial pilot project is underway in lower downtown Denver that will produce a framework that can be exported and adapted in sister cities. Already we are in conversations with key potential partners in Boston, Washington DC, and Santa Marta (Colombia).