Goldfarb Daniel Am Enrgy Lead

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[### Daniel Goldfarb - Executive Chairman and Co-Founder at ...

LinkedIn · Daniel Goldfarb

4.1K+ followers](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-goldfarb-17211728)

He lead focus areas on energy poverty, nuclear power, energy and security, and technology commercialization. American's for Energy Leadership joined forces with ...Read more

Experience

[Advisor Blue Forest Conservation

Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

California, United States](https://www.linkedin.com/company/6461317/)

Using experience in impact finance and asset management to help create healthier forests, reduce fire risks, and enable more sustainable watersheds.

Lendable 12 yrs

[Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Full-time

Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Oakland, California, United States](https://www.linkedin.com/company/7952833/)

I focus on strategy, capital raising, strategic partnerships, new products, enhancing our impact, and governance with 100% of my time.

[CEO and Co-Founder Jul 2014 - Apr 2021 · 6 yrs 10 mos

Nairobi](https://www.linkedin.com/company/7952833/)

We started Lendable in order to expand fair access to credit using machine learning.

I make sure we have great people, don't run out of money, and are steering in the right direction.… more

Lendable

Entrepreneur in Residence

Undisclosed Angel Investors

Mar 2014 - Jun 2014 · 4 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Vetting and designing the product and business case for an early stage idea in the multi-family residential space.

[Contractor - New Product Strategy Genability

Feb 2014 - May 2014 · 4 mos](https://www.linkedin.com/company/1229934/)

Design research and strategy contracting for new product development.

[Partner Greenstart

2011 - Feb 2014 · 3 yrs 2 mos

San Francisco](https://www.linkedin.com/company/2329947/)

Greenstart is a venture firm + design studio for cleanweb startups. Our portfolio companies receive exclusive access to our in-house design studio focused on business model, product, and brand design.

I make new investments and run design research and strategy in the design studio. My work starts with first meetings, through diligence, to working with our portfolio companies to define customer/user needs, business model, and go to market strategy. My team likes to think that we are the only ones out there combining VC diligence with design studio research and strategy.… more

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Education

Washington University in St. Louis BA, Political Science and English Literature

Activities and societies: Democratic Institutions Research Team, Roosevelt Institute Executive Board

University of Oxford The Oxford Program for Undergraduate Studies, Political Science and English Literature

Activities and societies: OPUS, Oxford Union, Oxford Poetry Society

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Obama’s climate omission: Can we disagree on climate and win on clean energy?

By Teryn Norris & Daniel Goldfarb

President Obama’s exclusion of “climate change” from the State of the Union, combined with Carol Browner’s exit as the administration’s top climate advisor, has sparked wide debate across the climate movement. On one hand, many climate advocates are backing the president’s strategy. As Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) put it, “He’s trying to unify … I think it was very smart of him.”

On the other hand, climate advocates like Joe Romm of Climate Progress and David Roberts of Grist are criticizing the president for not using climate change as a central justification for his clean energy proposals. Unfortunately, even after the collapse of cap-and-trade legislation, Roberts and other critics continue to follow a type of policy literalism [PDF] that has undermined environmentalists and climate advocates for years.

The argument goes something like this. First, Roberts claims that without climate change as the central justification, the case for federal investment in the clean energy industry “is no stronger than the ... Read more

Teryn Norris Climate & Energy

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