| Three UC Berkeley faculty members chosen for state advisory committee to help devise cap-and-trade program | ||
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Jun 2 2009 - Three scholars, including Dan Kammen, from the University of California, Berkeley, have been appointed to the state's new Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee, a group charged with helping California implement the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB32). | |
| News Feature, Nature journal of science - Atmospheric chemistry: The man who smells forests | ||
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May 28 2009 - NATURE - International weekly journal of science,News Feature - Chemist Allen Goldstein has spent his career tracking elusive compounds emitted by trees. Erik Vance joined him for a tour of the woods. | |
| U.S. Can Curb Global Warming and Lower Energy Costs with Carbon Cap and Smart Energy, Transportation Policies, New Study Finds | ||
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May 26 2009 - Union of Concerned Scientists, WASHINGTON (May 19, 2009) - With the right policies in place, the United States could dramatically cut the heat-trapping emissions that cause global warming and, at the same time, lower energy costs in every region of the country, according to the findings of a two-year, peer-reviewed study by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). "Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy," which used a modified version of the Department of Energy's National Energy Modeling System, concluded that the United States could meet an emissions-reduction cap of 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 56 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. | |
| Green Chemistry Chemists clean up their act | ||
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May 7 2009 - Article by Lee Bishop and Mitch Anstey featured in Issue 16 of the Berkeley Science Review. Click on title to read full article. Also check out BIE's Green Chemistry Roundtable, visit http://bie.berkeley.edu/greenchem |
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| BIE Co-Director Inez Fung Wins 2009 Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award | ||
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Apr 22 2009 - The Graduate Division and the Graduate Assembly have honored the recipients of the Graduate Division’s Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards and the Graduate Assembly's Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Awards. Inez Fung, Co-Director of the BIE, was one of three faculty to win the award. | |
| UC Berkeley News - In face of global warming, can wilderness remain natural? by Robert Sanders | ||
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Apr 15 2009 - UC Berkeley News - In face of global warming, can wilderness remain natural? by Robert Sanders. "For those who think of nature as a wild, unspoiled Eden that preserves the natural flora and fauna free from human interference, global warming has a nasty surprise in store, according to University of California, Berkeley, biologist Anthony Barnosky." To read full article click on link. | |
| SF Gate- Invest pollution trading dividends in clean energy industry by Phil Angelides and Dan Kammen | ||
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Apr 2 2009 - SF Gate - "A March 24 decision by the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency that greenhouse gases are dangerous moves the global warming discussion from assessment to action. Here is a line of action: Use proceeds from pollution-credit trading to invest in new energy sources..."click on link to read full op ed. | |
| Dr. James E. Hansen event, is now available to view online | ||
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Feb 25 2009 - On December 17, 2008 we brought you: Dr. James E. Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies "Threat to the Planet: Implications for a Intergenerational Justice and Energy Policies" This event is now available to view online, if you missed this event or would like to see it again please click link. | |
| "Fool's Gold could slash cost of solar power", article by Tom Young, BusinessGreen, quotes Prof. Dan Kammen | ||
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Feb 20 2009 - "Fool's Gold could slash cost of solar power", article by Tom Young, BusinessGreen, 20 Feb 2009. New research reveals a number of cheaper, more abundant alternatives to silicon, click on link to read article | |
| Predicting diversity within hotspots to enhance conservation by Robert Sanders | ||
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Feb 6 2009 - With limited funding and an inadequate number of scientists, governments in countries containing "hotspots" of threatened biodiversity are wrestling with how to protect plants and animals in disappearing habitats...click on link for full article. (Ana Carolina Carnaval/UC Berkeley photos) | |