Harvard Study Says Clean Electricity Will Prevent Premature Deaths

Harvard Study
Dimitry Anikin / RMI
Harvard Study
Dimitry Anikin / RMI

Harvard Study Says Clean Electricity Will Prevent Premature Deaths

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Reset’s sustainability contributor Karen Weigert introduces listeners to a group of Harvard researchers for a discussion on their study of how clean electricity will save lives.

GUESTS: Karen Weigert, executive vice president at Slipstream, a clean energy innovation non-profit; former chief sustainability officer at the city of Chicago

Jonathan Buonocore, research scientist at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Brady Seals, manager in RMI’s  (formerly Rocky Mountain Institute) Carbon-Free Building program

Parichehr Salimifard, postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Healthy Buildings program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health