Path to Zero: 12 Climate Conversations That Changed the World

Tucker Perkins’ Path to Zero shows how we can reverse climate change and create a cleaner environment for future generations by putting aside our biases and working together for change.

Climate catastrophe-inspired narratives like ＂Electrify Everything!＂ have a grip on people’s minds. The simplicity of the solution to the most complex endeavor ever faced by humans--the journey to a net zero future--is seductive, but it is fundamentally flawed.

In Path to Zero: 12 Climate Conversations That Changed the World, author, Tucker Perkins takes readers on a series of future-casting journeys from the Year 2050 back to the present day to show us how a better way--a wide path to net zero carbon emissions--was, and can be, achieved in an accelerated time frame.

In this work, Perkins uncovers an array of practical, often obvious, measures the world can take to achieve a better, cleaner future inclusive of energy and power. Unlike other authors and voices of this age, Perkins shows us that change is possible, innovation is happening, and dogmatic devotion to singular solutions is one of the biggest impediments to progress.

Tucker Perkins is the host of Path to Zero, a podcast on which he has interviewed nearly 100 experts on subjects ranging from internal combustion engines to environmental equity. He is also the president and chief executive officer for the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), a position he’s held since 2017.

Perkins is a frequent speaker on the subject of net zero and commentator on the energy industry for major media print and radio outlets and the Schwab Network.

Perkins has served as PERC’s chief business development officer and its chief operations officer. He previously was a member of the PERC Advisory Committee, where he chaired the panel on engine fuels. His extensive experience in the propane industry includes operating his own propane retail company in Virginia, Premier Propane, as well as holding executive positions at Inergy Propane and Columbia Propane.

Perkins holds a BS in civil engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the University of Richmond. He and his wife Liz reside in Richmond, Virginia.