Waste Management
Internship for California Sustainability Alliance, Navigant
Submitted by sprowles on February 8, 2008 - 2:51pm.Name of Job:
Internship for California Sustainability Alliance, Navigant
Description:
The California Sustainability Alliance (the Alliance) is funded by
California utility customers under the auspices of the California Public
Utilities Commission. The Alliance supports aggressive environmental
objectives related to energy efficiency, climate action, smart growth,
renewable energy, water use, waste stream management, and transportation
within the State of California.
The Alliance is pleased to announce an internship program for current
university students. As interns, students will participate in the
development of written and/or graphic content for the program website.
The website will serve as an educational resource for policy makers and
other professionals working towards sustainability in California. The
website is available in its current form at www.sustainca.org.
Undergraduate interns will be compensated at a rate of $20 per hour;
graduate interns will be compensated at a rate of $25 per hour.
For more information, please contact Claire Gagne, Navigant Consulting,
Inc., at Claire.gagne@navigantconsulting.com or (415)-356-7117.
Contact E-mail:
Date Posted:
2/8/08
Clean Tech New Business Competition
Submitted by admin on June 22, 2007 - 9:42am.Title:
Clean Tech New Business Competition
Description:
Applications for the Cal Clean Open business competition are due June 30. Ideas for new businesses in the following categories are eligible: Air, Water and Waste; Green Building; Energy Efficiency; Renewables; Smart Power; and Transportation. Prizes include cash plus in-kind services. Contact Pam Seidenman for more information at PSSeidenman@lbl.gov or 510-486-6461.
Introduce Campus Composting program
Submitted by cmjones on May 7, 2007 - 2:25pm.Title:
Introduce Campus Composting program
Summary:
Compostable wastes are generated in kitchens, bathrooms, from Grounds operations, and in the form of animal wastes from labs. Providing expanded composting collection for these wastes can divert up to 2000 tons of waste to composting.
Description of Organization:
CalCAP: In 2005, UC Berkeley launched the Cal Climate Action Partnership (CalCAP), an initiative that will develop strategy and implementation methods to significantly reduce UC Berkeley’s greenhouse gas footprint without compromising its functions.
Contact Person:
Fahmida Ahmed
Contact E-mail:
Cal Recycling
Submitted by cmjones on May 7, 2007 - 1:54pm.Name of Organization:
Cal Recycling
Purpose:
Increase awareness of the issues surrounding recycling and its impact on the environment. This includes involvement on the UC campus with a focus on the residence halls
Contact e-mail:
Meetings:
Tuesdays 6:15-7:15pm
Re-Use
Submitted by cmjones on May 7, 2007 - 1:50pm.Name of Organization:
Re-Use
Purpose:
To promote the concept and ethic of reuse to the campus population and to divert reusable materials from landfills. Re-Use collects unwanted but reusable materials and redistributes them back to the campus community.
Contact e-mail:
Picture:
Campus Recycling and Refuse Services
Submitted by cmjones on May 7, 2007 - 1:48pm.Name of Organization:
Campus Recycling and Refuse Services
Purpose:
Campus Recycling and Refuse Services (CRRS) is the campus unit that handles all of the refuse and most of the recycling collection at UC Berkeley. We coordinate the recycling efforts for mixed paper, beverage containers, greenwaste and wood, toner cartridges, and mixed metal. We can also provide general information on waste prevention, reuse of materials, purchasing recycled-content products, and recycling other materials that we do not coordinate.
Thermal Hydraulics Research Group
Submitted by cmjones on May 7, 2007 - 1:30pm.Name:
Thermal Hydraulics Research Group
Description:
Focuses on problems in energy and environmental systems, including advanced light water reactors, inertial confinement fusion, and high level nuclear waste processing. Study how thermal-hydraulics phenomena affect the safety and performance of nuclear systems.
Dorm Room Waste Bins
Submitted by cmjones on April 25, 2007 - 12:21pm.Title:
Dorm Room Waste Bins
Summary:
Project to create and produce an innovative protype individual trash receptacle, with subdivided compartments, for use by students within their dorm room to make it easy to keep separate the different types of recyclables.
Need: $1,000, 100% funded
More Information:
This project is part of the student-led interdisciplinary design organization Berkeley Innovation (BI). Right now the fact that students have one container in their dorm room for all types of trash means the students, when emptying their personal container into the larger residence hall trash cans, are unlikely to take the time to pick out the recyclables from the rest of their trash and deposit the recyclables into the residence halls large recycle containers.
Contact Person:
Vivek Rao
Contact E-mail:
Funded?:
Yes
Wurster Energy & Waste
Submitted by cmjones on April 24, 2007 - 11:50am.Title:
Wurster Energy & Waste
Summary:
Project to create sustainable practices in Wurster Hall’s Design Studios, which produce tomorrow’s architects, planners, and landscape architects.
Need: $2,990, 66% funded
More Information:
This student group will use $1,000 to implement an electricity use awareness campaign, using guerrilla signs and displaying energy usage data online and on existing computer screens in the elevator waiting areas. The other $1,000 will be used to recycle still usable architectural supplies, now thrown out at the end of the semester by students under pressure to vacate studios, so these supplies can now be given to next semester’s incoming architectural students free of charge.
This project hopes to take advantage of “the efforts of Paul Black as he works to install real time energy monitoring systems into more and more buildings on campus” or it may come from a novel system designed to automatically process webcam images of the building electric meter made available via the building wireless network, or it may have to come from direct observations of studio light levels or electricity meters. Because student’s major reviews occur at the end of the semester, with only a short time in which to clean out the studio, lots of still usable architectural supplies, including old models, printouts, and assorted materials, are currently trashed at the end of the semester by outgoing students required to leave the studios clean. These materials can now be recycled in large bins to be available free of charge to next semester’s students.
Contact Person:
Sam Borgeson
Contact E-mail:
Funded?:
Partial
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Submitted by cmjones on March 14, 2007 - 1:00pm.Department:
NUC ENG
Course Number:
225
Course Title:
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Instructor:
Ahn
Description:
This course is intended for
graduate students interested in acquiring a foundation in nuclear fuel cycle
with topics ranging from nuclear-fuel reprocessing to waste treatment and
final disposal. The emphasis is on the relationship between nuclear-power utilization
and its environmental
impacts. The goal is for graduate engineering students to gain sufficient
understanding in how nuclear-power utilization affects the environment, so that they are
better prepared to design an advanced system that would result in minimized environmental impact. The lectures
will consist of two parts. The first half includes mathematical models for
individual processes in a fuel cycle, such as nuclear fuel reprocessing,
waste solidification, repository performance, and nuclear transmutation in a
nuclear reactor. In the second half, these individual models are integrated,
which enables students to evaluate environmental impact of a fuel cycle.
Units:
3
Offered:
Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
