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September 22, 2025 • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm utc

Transforming Fashion’s Footprint: Innovation and Business

While various efforts continue to be made to estimate fashion’s environmental footprint, major gaps remain in how to decarbonize material production and reshape business practices.

Event • International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118 St., New York, NY 10027
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Transforming Fashion’s Footprint: Innovation and Business
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Columbia Energy Exchange

The Future of Energy Innovation

September 26, 2016
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Steven Chu

Former U.S. Secretary of Energy

Innovation is changing the energy sector. Advances in solar power, energy storage and oil and gas production are disrupting established industries and business models. What changes in these and other energy technologies lie ahead?

In the latest episode of the Columbia Energy Exchange, Inaugural Fellow David Sandalow sits down with Steven Chu, the 12th and longest serving U.S. Secretary of Energy, to discuss new and emerging technologies that are revolutionizing the energy sector.  They discuss: Advances in solar and storage technologies; Changes in oil and gas production from hydraulic fracturing, horizontal drilling and other technologies; Extending the lifetime of existing nuclear plants and cutting the cost of building new ones; The role of big data and computer simulation in energy innovations.

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