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Saul Griffith is campaigning for rooftop solar as both a solution to rising energy costs and the climate crisis

Saul Griffith
Jon Kalish
Saul Griffith

Saul Griffith is the founder of Otherlab, a celebrated engineering firm in San Francisco. He’s also a MacArthur genius grant recipient who has been advising the Biden Administration on renewable energy. But Lately he’s been spending a lot of time in his native Australia, campaigning for rooftop solar as both a solution to rising energy costs and the climate crisis.

WBGO’s Jon Kalish caught up with the engineer Down Under…

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