UC Berkeley Environmental News
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Jul 2 2009 | California Magazine
In 2004, the Chez Panisse Foundation and the Center for Ecoliteracy along with educators, parents, and nutrition experts decided to revamp the district's cafeteria lunches. Now, the district's students are discovering vegetables in a big way. |
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Jul 1 2009 | Reuters
Data centers are energy hogs, but the country’s most prominent green building standard, LEED, doesn’t adequately address their special design considerations. Now, the U.S. Green Building Council, which develops LEED, is considering tailoring existing LEED rating systems to evaluate green data centers. |
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Jun 30 2009 | Gigatron Throwdown Press
A new report by industry CEOs, venture capitalists and academics, including Berkeley's Dan Kammen, shows that tech innovations in seven industries — biofuel, nuclear, solar, geothermal, wind, building efficiency and construction materials — could reduce the country's carbon dioxide emissions by 5 to 7 billion tons by 2020 AND create 5 million new jobs. Their message to Congress: Don't stand in the way |
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Jun 29 2009 | Cal Recreational Sports
Proving once and for all that Rec Sports has the most diverse workforce on campus, we recently employed a small heard of voracious goats to clear 5 acres of bushes, grass, weeds and poison oak on the hillside behind the Golden Bear Rec Center, creating a clean fire break for the building. Not only do the goats work cheap... |
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Jun 29 2009 | New Scientist
When the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change came into force in 1994, climate change's impacts seemed distant. Not any more. With daily reports of changes to glaciers, ice sheets, oceans and ecological systems, climate change seems upon us.
As a result, the debate over what to do is changing. Geoengineering schemes, once considered nearly science fiction, are now discussed seriously. Most attention, though, has focused on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide. |
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Jun 28 2009 | UC Berkeley News Center
A new report by industry CEOs, venture capitalists and academics, including Berkeley's Dan Kammen, shows that tech innovations in seven industries could reduce the country's CO2 emissions by 5-7 billion tons AND create 5 million new jobs. Their message to Congress: Don't stand in the way! |
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Jun 28 2009 | LBNL News Center
Microsoft Corporation has launched a Web-based home energy management service, Hohm, which uses the energy models in the Home Energy SaverTM, developed by LBNL. Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Strategist made the announcement at the Edison Electric Institute’s annual convention in San Francisco. |
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Jun 22 2009 | UC Berkeley News Center - Engineering
What started as a six-week project for engineering freshmen is helping to create culturally sensitive and energy-efficient housing for a small California Indian tribe.
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Jun 22 2009 | UC Berkeley News Center
Although it is known that infants are more susceptible than adults to the toxic effects of pesticides, this increased vulnerability may extend much longer into childhood than expected, according to a new study by UC Berkeley researchers. |
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Jun 22 2009 | San Francisco Examiner Online
Despite conventional wisdom that global warming is good for agriculture in the United States, research from LBNL and the Carnegie Institution shows that temperature changes associated with global warming are already harming corn production worldwide. |
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Jun 16 2009 | Berkeley Lab News Center
Two researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Evan Mills and Michael Wehner, contributed to the analysis of the effects of climate change on all regions of the U.S., described in a major report released today by the multi-agency U.S. Global Change Research Program. |
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Jun 16 2009 | Science Daily
In revisiting a chemical reaction that’s been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have discovered a mild and relatively inexpensive procedure for removing oxygen from biomass. |
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Jun 15 2009 | Ivanhoe Newswire
Planes, trains and automobiles have a bigger effect on the environment beyond the fumes they emit. Researchers have created a new framework to calculate the true environmental cost of travel that accounts for every process, from generating energy to keep train stations running to extracting ore to build a car. |
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Jun 13 2009 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers have discovered a mild and relatively inexpensive procedure for removing oxygen from biomass. This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialized, could allow many of today’s petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass. |
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Jun 12 2009 | SF Gate
Bay Area political leaders and transportation officials announced Thursday they have reached consensus on a plan to bring high-speed rail to the region as they seek state and federal support for the project. |
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