Associate Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Group
Tony Dutzik is associate director and senior policy analyst with Frontier Group. His research and ideas on climate, energy and transportation policy have helped shape public policy debates across the U.S. and have earned coverage in outlets from National Public Radio to The New York Times and the Financial Times.
Prior to joining Frontier Group in 2001, Tony worked as an education reporter for the Eagle-Tribune newspaper of Lawrence, Mass., and as a political writer and organizer. Tony holds a Master’s degree in print journalism from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science in public service from Penn State University. A native of Pittsburgh, he now lives and works in Boston.
Notable reports authored by Tony include Electric Fleets for Arizona (2022), A New Way Forward (2016), and 50 Steps Toward Carbon-Free Transportation (2016).
Building systems that are designed from the start to be flexible, adaptable and reliant on empowered people can be an effective strategy to build up not only strong towns, but sustainable ones as well.
If we are ever going to address a problem as big as, for example, climate change, we need to relentlessly question the absurdity of the status quo, to go beyond considering ways to make our current systems and modes of development incrementally less bad or less unjust, and imagine how those systems can be transformed into something qualitatively better.
Abundance of good things is a good thing. And a political agenda designed to get more good things to more people is a worthwhile aspiration. But achieving abundance alone won’t “solve all of America’s problems.” Not hardly.
California's proposed new policies would treat solar customers like contestants in a game of “pin the tail on the donkey” - creating so much uncertainty and confusion as to make it virtually impossible for Californians to assess when or if “going solar” will yield dividends.
Is "Don't Look Up" the climate disaster story America needs to jolt us out of complacency? Or, by telling a familiar, Hollywood-friendly version of the climate change story, does it limit our ability to imagine an effective response?
