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Andy Karsner (X) - Designing for Natural Security
Season 15 · Episode 21

Andy Karsner (X) - Designing for Natural Security

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) · STVP

May 13, 202047m 44s

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Show Notes

Andy Karsner is a senior strategist and “Space Cowboy” at X, the “moonshot factory” at Alphabet (Google’s parent company). He has spent two decades driving renewable energy innovation and other climate solutions, including serving as the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy from 2005 to 2008. In this talk, Emily Ma, Food Systems Lead at X, interviews Karsner about the nation’s preeminent natural security challenges and explores where he finds the greatest hope for designing solutions.

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