Hal Harvey

Harvey has bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Stanford University.

Harvey started the Energy Foundation in 1990 and was the CEO of the foundation until 2002. Harvey was the director of the Environment Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 2001 to 2008.{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117088159314901344|title=The Green Machine|first=Jeffrey|last=Ball|website=wsj.com|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|url-access=subscription|date=12 February 2007|accessdate=20 August 2024}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/us/06sfclimate.html|title=ClimateWorks Is Carrying Out New Global Strategy|first=Richard C.|last=Paddock|website=nytimes.com|publisher=The New York Times|date=5 December 2009|accessdate=20 August 2024}}{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/special-report/2006/09/09/doing-it-their-way|title=Doing it their way|website=economist.com|publisher=The Economist|date=9 September 2006|accessdate=20 August 2024}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/us/10calif.html|title=Schwarzenegger Orders Cuts in Emissions|first1=Jennifer|last1=Steinhauer|first2=Felicity|last2=Barringer|website=nytimes.com|publisher=The New York Times|date=10 January 2007|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey was the inaugural CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation in San Francisco. The foundation grew out of the Design to Win (DTW) document produced by California Environmental Associates. The DTW document laid out certain roles for philanthropy and ClimateWorks Foundation was meant to implement and operationalize what was in the DTW.{{cite web|url=https://hewlett.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ClimateWorks_Foundation_Case_Study.pdf|title=ClimateWorks Foundation|website=hewlett.org|publisher=Hewlett Foundation|date=February 2016|accessdate=20 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ceaconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/Design-to-Win.pdf|title=DESIGN TO WIN|website=seaconsulting.com|publisher=California Environmental Associates|date=August 2007|accessdate=20 August 2024}} ClimateWorks Foundation receives most of its funding from the Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation. ClimateWorks Foundation gives grants to local foundations across the globe, including in China and India.

In 2004, Harvey worked on the transition team of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a consultant on climate and energy issues.{{cite web|url=https://www1.thetyee.ca/News/2004/04/22/Schwarzenegger_Far_More_Green_than_Campbell/|title=Schwarzenegger Far More ‘Green’ than Campbell|first=Marcie|last=Good|website=thetyee.ca|date=22 April 2004|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey co-founded the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in 2001.

Harvey was quoted by The New York Times on the implications of California's resolve to take a leading role in fighting climate change when the then President-elect Donald Trump appeared to be planning to make global warming deniers into Cabinet members in the first Trump Administration, apart from Trump himself being sympathetic to global warming deniers. Trump had already indicated that the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement under his administration.{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2016/12/27/california-forefront-climate-fight-won-back-down-trump/6R1VQSkyuRPTygyaCRzGbK/story.html|title=California, at forefront of climate fight, won’t back down to Trump|first1=y Adam|last1=Nagourney |author-link1=Adam Nagourney|first2=Henry|last2=Fountain|website=bostonglobe.com|publisher=The New York Times|via=The Boston Globe|date=27 December 2016|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey was also quoted by The New York Times saying that then-President Obama's plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants was going to be "far easier and far faster and far cheaper than most people realize."{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/06/06/some-states-cut-emissions-lights-stay/vnsbgNNZSbfKcgmk5jFRvI/story.html|title=Some states well ahead in race to cut emissions|first1=Justin|last1=Gillis |first2=Michael|last2=Wines|website=bostonglobe.com|publisher=The New York Times|via=The Boston Globe|date=7 June 2014|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey discussed the "four-zero climate solution" on Greg Dalton's Climate One podcast, also featuring Arun Majumdar of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Kate Gordon. This involves "a zero-emissions electric grid, zero-emission transportation, zero-emission buildings, and zero-waste manufacturing."{{cite web|url=https://www.climateone.org/node/24637|title=A Four-Zero Climate Solution|website=climateone.org|publisher=Climate One|date=14 November 2018|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey is on the advisory council of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.{{cite web|url=https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/global-leaders-join-stanford-doerr-school-sustainability-advisory-council|title=Global leaders join the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Advisory Council|first=Amy|last=Adams|website=stanford.edu|publisher=Stanford University|date=5 June 2023|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey was the CEO of Energy Innovation based in San Francisco. The firm is focused on energy and environmental policy.{{cite web|url=https://www.aspenideas.org/speakers/hal-harvey|title=Hal Harvey|website=aspenideas.org|publisher=Aspen Ideas Festival|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

In 2020, Harvey was one of the people who wrote on the topic of the one thing to do right now to help fix America for The New York Times Dealbook as part of their annual event.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/fix-america-economy-climate-health#hal-harvey-cut-carbon-emissions |title=Cut Carbon Emissions Everywhere (Starting With These Four Sectors)|first=Hal|last=Harvey|website=nytimes.com|publisher=The New York Times|date=November 2020|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey has also written opinion articles in The New York Times with Justin Gillis,{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/by/justin-gillis|title=Justin Gillis|website=nytimes.com|publisher=The New York Times|accessdate=20 August 2024}} who is a consultant and author and covered environmental science with a special focus on climate change at The New York Times for about a decade.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/opinion/climate-change-political-action.html|title=The Way to Slow Climate Change Is as Close as Your City Hall or School Board|first1=Hal|last1=Harvey| first2=Justin|last2=Gillis|website=nytimes.com|publisher=The New York Times|date=26 August 2022|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey and Gillis wrote in Grist about the need for citizens to become "climate citizens" rather than being just "climate-conscious consumers." They note that advocacy by millions of citizens in school boards, energy utilities, and local government will help America make the clean energy transition that is needed, and to meet the emissions reductions pledge made by the Biden Administration.{{cite web|url=https://grist.org/fix/opinion/concerned-climate-citizens-make-difference/|title=You’re a climate-conscious consumer. It’s time to become a ‘climate citizen.’|first1=Justin |last1=Gillis |first2=Hal |last2=Harvey| website=grist.org|publisher=Grist|date=30 September 2022|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey wrote in Forbes magazine about how California can play a leading role in electric vehicles despite the Trump Administration's stated desire to reverse various Obama Administration climate policies and regulations.

{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2020/07/06/california-can-still-lead-america--and-the-world-on-electric-vehiclesdespite-trump/|title=California Can Still Lead America And The World On Electric Vehicles - Despite Trump|first=Hal|last=Harvey|website=forbes.com|publisher=Forbes magazine|date=6 July 2020|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey and Gillis are co-authors of the book The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet.{{cite web|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Big-Fix/Hal-Harvey/9781982123994|title=The Big Fix|website=simonandschuster.com|publisher=Simon & Schuster|accessdate=20 August 2024}} In an excerpt from the book in Popular Science magazine, Harvey and Gillis note how wind energy was a serious idea even in the 1920s.{{cite web|url=https://www.popsci.com/environment/first-wind-turbines-history/|title=A century ago, wind power was a farming norm. What happened?|first1=Hal|last1=Harvey |first2=Justin| last2=Gillis|website=popsci.com|publisher=Popular Science|date=20 September 2022|accessdate=20 August 2024}} Stephen Markley has recommended The Big Fix to people who want to know what they can do about climate change.{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/16/arts/deluge-author-stephen-markley-plays-literary-lottery/|title=‘The Deluge’ author Stephen Markley plays the literary lottery|first=Amy|last=Sutherland|website=bostonglobe.com|publisher=The Boston Globe|date= 16 February 2023|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey is a co-author with Paul Brest of the book Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy published by Stanford University Press.{{cite web|url=https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28860|title=Stanford University Press|website=sup.org|publisher=Stanford University Press|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey is a co-author of the book Designing Climate Solutions A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy.{{cite web|url=https://islandpress.org/books/designing-climate-solutions#desc|title=Designing Climate Solutions|website=islandpress.org|publisher=Island Press|accessdate=20 August 2024}} The other co-authors of the book are Robbie Orvis of Energy Innovation and Jeffrey Rissman, also of Energy Innovation.

Harvey received the Heinz Award in 2016 in the environment category. These awards were instituted in 1993 by Teresa Heinz of the Heinz Family Foundations.{{cite web|url=https://www.heinzawards.org/pages/hal-harvey|title=Hal Harvey|website=heinzawards.org|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

Harvey is a recipient of the Haagen-Smit Award for 2018 in the policy category. The awards are given annually by the government of California's Air Resources Board in various categories since 2001.{{cite web|url=https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/haagen-smit-clean-air-awards/haagen-smit-award-recipients|title=Haagen-Smit Award Recipients|website=arb.ca.gov|publisher=California Air Resources Board|accessdate=20 August 2024}}

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• [https://vimeo.com/752366302 Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis with] Al Gore
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrvgmTgeqM8 Hal Harvey in conversation] with Tom Friedman

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