| Wired Californian forests to guide response to climate |
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Jun 9 2011 | New Scientist |
| The data gathered here at the Angelo Coast Range Reserve in Mendocino county, California, should help the US's most populous state adapt to a warming world in which water becomes increasingly scarce, limiting its use by farmers, urban centres and natural habitats. It will also help to refine climate models, which don't adequately address the interplay between the water in trees, soil and bedrock. |
| EPA prepares to wade into the Bay-Delta |
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Feb 16 2011 | The Berkeley Blog |
| Professor Holly Doremus discusses new policy at the EPA, which is a key player in the Bay-Delta, but has been conspicuously absent for a number of years. |
| Not Enough “Green” to be Green? |
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Feb 14 2011 | The Legal Planet |
| Dan Farber comments on President Obama's budget proposal in regards to the EPA and climate change research. |
| Good for consumers, good for the planet? |
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Jan 28 2011 | The Berkeley Blog |
| California Governor Jerry Brown’s appointment of Mike Florio, a well-known, life-long consumer advocate, to a seat on the California Public Utilities Commission raises an interesting question for those who view the world primarily through green-colored glasses. What does a consumer advocate have to offer toward the advancement of an environmental agenda — at least in the energy utility world? |
| Study finds greenhouse gas emissions can hurt companies' stock value |
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Jan 24 2011 | UC Davis News |
| According to a new study by researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, how much greenhouse gas a company produces has a significant effect on the value of the company's stock.
The researchers found that the greater the carbon emissions, the lower a company's stock, all other factors being equal. |
| EPA vetoes mountaintop removal mining permit |
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Jan 13 2011 | Legal Planet |
| The EPA Assistant Administrator issued the Obama administration’s first veto of a Clean Water Act section 404 permit. This veto, which has been working its way through the cumbersome process for more than a year, is only the 13th in agency history. It blocks “valley fills” — the use of streams and tributaries for disposal of the rock and dirt removed in surface coal mining —in Logan County West Virginia. |
| Energy efficiency causes us to use more energy? Really? |
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Jan 4 2011 | Berkeley Blog by Prof. Dan Farber |
| Prompted in part by a recent article in the New Yorker, there’s been a lot of attention to the rebound effect lately. The theory is that increased energy efficiency in effect makes energy cheaper (as measured in cost per unit of benefit), so people actually consumer more energy. The empirical evidence is that this is a relatively small effect, far outweighed by the energy savings from efficiency, as Greenwire reports. But some people argue that the rebound effect actually outweighs the energy savings. |
| Government Investment in a Clean Energy Future |
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Dec 13 2010 | Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory |
| RAEL Researcher Jamil Farbes and Lab Director Dan Kammen published a new research paper on the issue of how California should distribute greenhouse gas allowances and the resulting revenue in anticipation of the California Air Resources Board (CARB)’s upcoming decision over a greenhouse gas emissions trading program. |
| Morello-Frosch receives accolades for environmental work |
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Dec 3 2010 | College of Natural Resources |
| Associate Professor Rachel Morello-Frosch received the Damu Smith Environmental Achievement Award from the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). The award recognizes crosscutting collaborative work that has enhanced or increased understanding of economic security, ecological conservation, culture, or health. |
| UC Berkeley Global Engagement Day |
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Oct 21 2010 | Berkeley Institute of the Environment |
| UC Berkeley has a long tradition of global engagement. Myriad departments, centers and student groups are heavily engaged in research and activities that address pressing global challenges such as poverty, health, human rights, environmental degradation, and climate change. On Tuesday, October 26th, from 12 -4 at Pauley Ballroom West, MLK Student Center, Global Engagement Day will hold an exposition, networking space and a learning opportunity to appreciate the sum of the parts and gauge UC Berkeley’s total impact on the global stage. |
| Proposition 23 and the damage it would do to California |
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Oct 4 2010 | LA Times |
| Daniel Farber of The Berkeley School of Law and ERG, and Richard Frank of CLEE, discuss how setting aside the state's climate change law would damage the state's green economy and imperil California's commitment to fighting greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Haas Takes Second in Macedonia with Affordable Solar Plan |
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Jul 12 2010 | Haas Newsroom |
| Christy Martell and Jeff Olson, both MBA 10, and teammate Taj Walton, BS 10 (Environmental Economics), wrote a business plan to make solar thermal systems—a tried and true technology for home water heating—affordable to Macedonians through leasing. They won second place and high praise from judges at the International Renewable Energy Case Challenge in Macedonia in June for their pragmatic plan to ease the Eastern European nation’s looming energy crisis. |
| UC Berkeley Study Shows Benefits Of FIT |
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Jul 7 2010 | Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory |
| University of California, Berkeley has announced the results of a study examining the economic benefits of a comprehensive feed-in tariff (FIT). The analysis shows that enacting a robust FIT in California to achieve the state's 33% by 2020 renewable portfolio standard (RPS) would create more than $2 billion in additional tax revenue and would stimulate tens of billions of dollars in new investment. |
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