UC Berkeley Environmental News
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Nov 6 2009 | UC Berkeley News
Anthropologist Mari Lyn Salvador has been named director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Salvador was chief executive officer of the San Diego Museum of Man from 2004 until 2009. There, she earned praise for the physical restoration of the Balboa Park historic landmark and ... Follow link to read full article. |
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Nov 5 2009 | Lawrence National Berkeley Laboratory
One of the most-cited examples of global climate change is retreating ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland. But the detail of how fast they are melting is a mystery that may be solved with a new generation of computer simulations. |
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Nov 5 2009 | UC Berkeley News Center
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have received a five-year, $10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate several interventions to combat diarrheal disease in developing countries. An estimated 2.2 million children under the age of 5 die from diarrheal diseases each year, according to the World Health Organization. Most of these diseases are thought to be preventable with improvements in sanitation, water quality and hygiene.
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Nov 4 2009 | CNR News
Professor Michael Hanemann of ARE discusses S.1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, on KPFA's "Letters to Washington." (Download the show). |
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Nov 2 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Berkeley, California-based Darfur Stoves Project (DSP), in partnership with
Oxfam America and the Sudanese organization, Sustainable Action Group (SAG),
has launched an assembly facility for fuel-efficient stoves in El Fasher, the
capital of the Darfur region. |
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Oct 29 2009 | Lawrence National Berkeley Lab
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been awarded $7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for four projects that seek to advance Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), which is capable of harnessing the Earth’s heat where conventional geothermal technologies cannot.
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Oct 28 2009 | Professor David Zilberman webpage
Two papers:
-Biofuel policy must evaluate environmental, food security and energy goals to maximize net benefits
-Model estimates food-versus-biofuel trade-off |
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Oct 27 2009 | Center for Energy, Resources and Economic Sustainability
UC Berkeley researchers, David Roland-Holst and Fredrich Kahrl, have been working on a new study that shows that with strong implementation of energy efficiency measures the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) act, which passed the House in June, could possibly generate as many as 1.9 million jobs between the years of 2010 and 2020. Click link to read executive summary. |
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Oct 26 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steve Chu, former director of Berkeley Lab, visited the Lab on Monday to talk about the future of energy research in the U.S. During his visit to the Bay Area, Chu also announced $151 million in funding for 37 ambitious research projects--including some that could allow intermittent energy sources like wind and solar to provide a steady flow of power, or use bacteria to produce automotive fuel from sunlight.(Watch podcast). |
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Oct 26 2009 | Office of Sustainability
This newsletter features: Buying Local in Berkeley;Re-Used Stuff Emporium– Free Exchange of Goods on Campus!; Sustainability in the News; Sustainability Week at the Residence Halls– Nov 2-6; Engineering Joins Tap Water Bandwagon; Creative Alternative Transportation: Longboarding on Campus;Keep FOG out the Drain & Bay.
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Oct 26 2009 | CNR News
Sally Jewell, President and CEO of REI, delivers the Fall 2009 Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation. Click link to view. |
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Oct 23 2009 | UC Berkeley News
Experts identify fixable flaw in accounting rules that could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. |
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Oct 22 2009 | The Lawrence National Laboratory
An important advance towards fulfilling the promise of nanotechnology has been achieved by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who have found a simple and yet powerfully robust way to induce nanoparticles to assemble themselves into complex arrays. Click link to read more. |
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Oct 21 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
According to the report, the most recent decline in costs is primarily the result of a decrease in PV module costs. In contrast, cost reductions from 1998 through 2007 were largely due to a decline in non-module costs, such as the cost of labor, marketing, overhead, inverters, and the balance of systems. |
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Oct 21 2009 | The Daily Californian
Solar panels were installed as part of a recent Berkeley program, which funded the installations through increases in the households' property taxes. This project has inspired a new federal energy program, as announced by Vice President Joe Biden. (PHOTO/Anne Marie Schuler) |
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