The Ethics of Personal Energy Consumption Choices

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Date(s) - 03/18/2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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Golkin 100, Fitts Auditorium

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The Ethics of Personal Energy Consumption Choices

March 18, 2025
4:00pm
 – 5:00pm EDT
Golkin 100, Michael A. Fitts Auditorium

The Penn Program on Regulation, in collaboration with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Perry World House, and the Wharton Climate Center, invites you join us for a talk by Travis Rieder, Associate Research Professor and Director of Education Initiatives at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Drawing on his new book, Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices, Dr. Rieder will frame a discussion around the personal energy choices that individuals make—such as whether to buy an EV, install a heat pump, or simply turn down the thermostat—and what moral obligations we have to support larger structural reforms in our energy systems.

Sarah Light, the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professor and Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, will moderate the event.

This talk is free and open to the public.

CLE Credit
This program has been approved for a total of 1.0 Ethics CLE credits for Pennsylvania lawyers. CLE credit may be available in other jurisdictions as well. Attendees seeking CLE credit can make a payment via cash or check made payable to “The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania” on the day of the event in the amount of $40.00 ($20.00 public interest/non-profit attorneys). In order to receive the appropriate amount of credit, evaluation forms must be completed.

Penn Carey Law Alumni receive CLE credits free through The W.P. Carey Foundation’s generous commitment to Lifelong Learning.