Energy for Change Symposium 1: Aletha Tom

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Video Title: Energy for Change Symposium 1: Aletha Tom
Description: Across the globe, leaders and innovators are creating sustainable societies that include both environmental and economic success. "Energy for Change: Green Leaders Building a Sustainable Future" features expert, inspiring look at new projects that are helping to build a clean economy and promote local job creation, energy savings, and greater self-reliance in indigenous communities around the globe. In this segment Chairwoman Aletha Tom of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, who successfully worked to move from "Coal to Clean Energy," speaks about the replacement of the coal-fired plant that was harmful to her community with the first industrial-scale solar energy project in Indian Country— the 250-megawatt Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project that will provide clean, solar energy to the City of Los Angeles. The symposium was moderated by Tim Johnson, NMAI Associate Director for Museum Programs and Executive Committee member of the Smithsonian's Living in the Anthropocene Initiative, and recorded in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on July, 18, 2014 as part of the fifth annual Living Earth Festival.
Video Duration: 18 min 20 sec
YouTube Keywords: Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"