The Labor Community Alliance of South Floridas Premier Environmental Event, An Earth Week Forum on Bill Gates Book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, The Solutions we have and the Breakthroughs that we need which was presented in conjunction with The Ecomodernist Society of North America and Seattle Friends of Fission featuring our panelists: Scott Montgomery, Meredith Angwin and George Ericson. Scott Montgomery is an author, geoscientist, and affiliate faculty member in the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. He writes and lectures on a wide variety of topics related to energy, geopolitics, technology, resources, climate change, American politics, intellectual history, language and communication, and the history of science. He is a frequent contributor to many leading publications including Forbes, and Fortune. As a working chemist, Meredith Angwin headed projects that lowered pollution and increased reliability on the electric grid. Her work included pollution control for nitrogen oxides in gas-fired combustion turbines and corrosion control in geothermal and nuclear systems. Her latest book is Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid, an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the United States electric grid. George Erickson is a past President of the Minnesota Humanists and the author of Unintended Consequences, The Lie that Killed Millions and Accelerated Climate Change.