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"Because of his wide background, the author Dr. Hari Lamba, has the unique ability to understand all aspects of the PLAN and its solutions needed in energy, climate, economic development and ecosystems. He has experience in engineering, business and ecology. He has a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, with about 40 years of experience in industry, both in engineering product development and in advanced technology. He migrated from India to the USA as a young Sikh in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He was one of the founders of the Earth Summit Network, an informal organization formed in Chicago in 1991-92 to educate the local public about the Earth Summit, or the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that was held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, where the original Global Warming Treaty was signed. Since then he has been active in non-profit groups, talking about and making presentations on Climate Change. During the time he was working in industry, he worked on the side by being active in environmental, developmental and climate change issues. Initially he was active in issues relating to South Asia or the Indian sub-continent, but then his activities expanded to the global level. Throughout the 1990s he engaged in a process of self-education through reading and writing that culminated in the publication of his first book, ""Rethinking Progress"". In this way he learned what had been happening globally, both in regard to the planet over 4.6 billion years, and in regard to the world from the beginnings of the scientific and industrial revolutions in Europe. Through this process he understood global problems and how nations become richer or poorer. He understood how Japan industrialized rapidly through cooperation between government and industry - a process that may be called command capitalism. The same process was later adopted by the nations of southeast Asia and now China. The process of climate change needs such a re-industrialization policy, but globally, in order to systematically build the new energy, electrification, and non-carbon fuel technologies. Dr. Lamba understands how this process can be implemented, but has enough understanding and sensitivity to ecology to know that this time it needs to happen with a significant attention to restoring and rejuvenating ecosystems at the same time. One cannot proceed to transform industry by destroying the natural world and worsening climate change as fossil fuels have done. Through his volunteer work and through self-education, he has developed a good understanding of environmental (ecological), developmental (technical, economic, industrial and financial) and political (democracy and empowerment) issues. He has published a number of technical engineering papers and has technical patents to his name in the field of materials, railway technology and energy. At the same time both on operating a side business and at work, he developed a good understanding of solar energy, wind energy, and battery technologies. The author knows how to plan, activate and implement all aspects of what he has proposed in cooperation with experts in the fields of ecology, technology, economics and politics. He is committed to helping the world accept and implement a plan for climate change solutions such as described in this book, and to cooperate with and help all others active in this field from the local to the global level."
Mylongexperiencewithfinancingsolarenergytellsmethattosolveour climateproblem requires an energy transformation of the type that Hari has proposed. He has the back- ground to understand the technologies, as well as the economic, political and ecologicalaspects of the solutions, that makes his transformation plan truly credible. Let's doit! Jigar Shah, Founder of SunEdison Dr . Lamba has produced a compendium of vital thoughts and solutions for achieving a sustainable future within a viable timeframe. Although the Clean Coalition aims to accel- eratethe transition to renewable energy and a modern grid even faster, I appreciate that Dr. Lamba recognizes the vital role that renewables-driven Community Microgrids willplay. Craig Lewis, Founder and Executive Director, Clean Coalition Climate chan ge upping the ambition, a chapter title in Lamba's book, encapsulates his mission and peculiar criter ion.Better Climate Futures compares with Hawken's Drawdown book as a plan compares with a list of technologies, and is geographically specific, a key criterion of decarbonization, not only as to which technologies fit which places, but also as to the even more critical question of locally specific policy pathways, highlighting the advent of Community ChoiceAggregation in the United States, for example - making the ideas in play actionable for readers in real world conditions, and in the increasingly short timeframe for climate mobilization. Paul Fenn, Local Power LLC - Creator of Green Bonds and Community Choice Aggregation (CCA A compelling vision of what could be. -- James J. Greenberger, Founder and Executive Director NAAT Batt International
