Audrey Chang's Blog
About
- Bio:
I spent my first summer in college working as a nature interpreter for the Sequoia National Forest (now part of the National Monument), teaching visitors about edible and medicinal plants, mountain lions, and wildfire management. When I went back to school, I knew I wanted to do something related to the environment but couldn’t decide on a major. I took one class about energy efficient buildings and was sold. I got my bachelor’s in earth systems, and ended up staying on at Stanford to get a master’s in energy engineering. Energy is one huge area that affects almost all other environmental issues we face, there is so much that can be done now with today’s technologies, and so many changes make economic sense too.
After working as an energy efficiency and green building consultant and now at NRDC, I still feel the same way. In my work coordinating our efforts to implement California’s groundbreaking Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), I hope we’re pushing the ball forward, showing how we can pursue clean energy and other broad-reaching solutions to the most important environmental problem of our time, while still building our economy.
- Roots in:
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Favorite place:
- Anywhere in the mountains
- Why "environmentalism" matters:
- Because we have to take care of the things, places, and people we love.
Recent Blog Posts
- Global Warming History Made in California (December 12, 2008)
- Saving the Economy and Planet in California (December 8, 2008)
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- Audrey Chang
- Director, California Climate Program
- San Francisco