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Six Nobel Laureates say averting world's climate crisis requires immediate energy research, conservation, and regulation. Watch a webcast of "Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century

The program explores the economic and policy side of Silicon Valley's boom in clean technology. Host: Dave Iverson Guests: Dan Kammen, director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment Ira Ehrenpreis, general partner of Technology Partners and chairman of the Clean-Tech Investor Summit James L. Sweeney, director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, professor of Management Science and Engineering and fellow at the California Council on Science and Technology Vindu Goel, business columnist and blogger at the San Jose Mercury News

Listen to Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu's recent talk at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, on the energy problem and what the Lab's Helios project can do about it.

On February 1, the global energy firm BP announced that it had selected UC Berkeley, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to lead an unprecedented $500 million research effort to develop new sources of energy and to reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment. In this edition of Bear in Mind, UC Berkeley's ongoing webcast series about campus issues, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau delves into the details of the university's winning proposal and discusses the emerging plans for the new Energy Biosciences Institute.

A growing number of Americans are embracing ethanol and bio-diesel as possible alternatives to gasoline. But one Berkeley engineering professor is waging a campaign against what he considers a delusion about bio-fuels.

A new group of strange bedfellows -- including farmers, foresters, environmentalists and politicians -- wants 25 percent of America's energy to come from renewable resources by the year 2025. That means more ethanol, wind and solar energy. Will it truly be environmentally friendly? Including guest Professor Daniel Kammen.

What went wrong with California's electricity restructuring in 2000 and 2001? How can the state recover from the precarious supply situation it put itself in? Does the California crisis have lessons for other states that are restructuring? In this talk, Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Public Policy and Business Administration and director of the UC Energy Institute, discusses issues surrounding the California electricity restructuring. In this video excerpt, Borenstein focuses on two possible solutions to the current crisis, one supply-side, one demand-side.

Dan Kammen, professor of Energy and Resources and Public Policy, lectures on " Africa's Energy Future". Lecture given at Columbia University

Paul Wright, professor of mechanical engineering and engineering graduate student Will Watts speak about their development of energy-saving technologies with Chancellor Birgeneau

Webcast of the Energy Biosciences Institute Press Conference