{"id":258327,"date":"2026-05-29T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/penn-climate-executive-director-discusses-future-of-solar-technology-at-drexel-film-screening\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:45:09","slug":"penn-climate-executive-director-discusses-future-of-solar-technology-at-drexel-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/penn-climate-executive-director-discusses-future-of-solar-technology-at-drexel-film-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Climate executive director discusses future of solar technology at Drexel film screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/05\/penn-climate-technology-solar-geoengineering-planet-drexel\">Penn Climate executive director discusses future of solar technology at Drexel film screening<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/05\/penn-climate-technology-solar-geoengineering-planet-drexel\">https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/05\/penn-climate-technology-solar-geoengineering-planet-drexel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 00:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedp.com\">www.thedp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Penn Climate Executive Director Stephen Decina spoke on a panel promoting a Drexel University film about the future of climate technology.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary, called \u201cPlan C for Civilization,\u201d was created by Drexel assistant professor Ben Kalina and screened on May 26. Decina\u00a0\u2014 who serves as Penn\u2019s inaugural executive director of climate science, policy, and action \u2014\u00a0spoke alongside Drexel professors about the role of solar geoengineering in cooling the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The film follows University of Chicago professor David Keith, who analyzed \u201ccontroversial\u201d solar geoengineering technology, as well as the creators of Make Sunsets, a Silicon Valley startup that deploys the technology.<\/p>\n<p>It also featured an appearance by Michael Mann, Director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, who spoke about solar geoengineering.<\/p>\n<p>Kalina \u2014\u00a0who has spent over 10 years working on the documentary \u2014\u00a0told The Daily Pennsylvanian that he valued a \u201crange of perspectives\u201d when selecting the event\u2019s panelists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-serif\">Get the DP delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"ps-2\">Sign Up<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to have people on the panel from both Drexel and Penn because I think it\u2019s really important,\u201d Kalina said. \u201cThese two universities are right next to each other, and there\u2019s so little interaction between students, faculty, and so forth, that I really like building those connections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decina told the DP that the event was a \u201cgreat opportunity to make some good connections with Drexel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPenn has very specific strengths that are complementary to strengths that Drexel or other universities might have,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In the panel following the screening, Decina \u2014\u00a0who previously served in the Bureau of Oceans and International&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/05\/penn-climate-technology-solar-geoengineering-planet-drexel\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn Climate executive director discusses future of solar technology at Drexel film screening https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2026\/05\/penn-climate-technology-solar-geoengineering-planet-drexel Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/snworksceo.imgix.net\/dpn\/b6091ffb-ffa7-4e3a-8c70-8d0c4dcb86de.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=800&h=600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-258327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258329,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258327\/revisions\/258329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}