Climate Change
Extreme Science
Submitted by cmjones on May 1, 2007 - 10:36am.Picture:
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CalMagDate Posted:
Oct 1 2006Summary:
Scientists are racing to determine a "tipping point" of catastrophic change -- and to develop technologies to prevent it. Featuring Professor and Co-Director of the BIE, Inez Fung.Read Full Article:
http://alumni.berkeley.edu/calmag/200609/zielenziger.aspCALGEM: Taking the Measure of California's Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Submitted by cmjones on May 1, 2007 - 10:22am.Picture:
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Science@BerkeleyLabDate Posted:
Apr 1 2007Summary:
To play its part in reducing the consequences of global warming, the state of California has embarked on a trailblazing effort to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). To prove that greenhouse gas reductions are actually taking place, it will be necessary to monitor emissions regionally. Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recognized this need several years ago and began studying the problem. They are now taking the first steps toward creating a monitoring network with a pilot project called CALGEM: the California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Project.
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http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2007/Apr/02-CALGEM.htmlDamaged Land, Buried Carbon
Submitted by cmjones on May 1, 2007 - 10:17am.Picture:
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Science@BerkeleyLabDate Posted:
Apr 1 2007Summary:
Erosion and Deposition Constitute a Net Carbon Sink. Everybody knows erosion is bad, but one of the bad things everybody "knows" may be a bum rap: the charge that erosion is a source of increased carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere. Is erosion a carbon source, or might it be a carbon sink?Read Full Article:
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sabl/2007/Apr/05-erosion.htmlStudent Education to Increase Awareness
Submitted by cmjones on April 25, 2007 - 2:21pm.Title:
Student Education to Increase Awareness
Summary:
PROPOSED PROJECT: The University’s academic curriculum needs to demonstrate a more serious commitment towards addressing climate change. Initiatives taken by the Education for Sustainable Living Program can help jumpstart student-led courses at the grassroots level. Additionally, the University’s Academic Senate, the representative body of the University faculty that can exercise some influence over academic matters, can create a core curriculum focused on climate change (About UC Governance, 2006). At the least, it should create a “flexible course module” on climate change that would be offered to all faculty to be integrated into relevant existing course offerings.
Funded?:
No
Automated and campus wide GHG information management system
Submitted by cmjones on April 25, 2007 - 2:18pm.Title:
Automated and campus wide GHG information management system
Summary:
PROPOSED PROJECT: a visible dashboard in UC Berkeley website – The University does not currently have an integrated system to manage information relevant to GHG emissions generated by campus activities. Data collection from some potentially important sources (e.g., campus fleet, commute, air travel) is manual and often in terms of cost. This is particularly true for air travel, where there is no system that tracks air travel trips or mileage. Also, information on different GHG emissions sources is not integrated. It was not until we performed the inventory that we realized the relative size of the different sources of emissions on campus. This is typical of most institutions given that climate change mitigation is a fairly recent interest.
Funded?:
No
California Climate Action Registration standards development
Submitted by cmjones on April 25, 2007 - 2:16pm.Title:
California Climate Action Registration standards development
Summary:
PROPOSED PROJECT: fund graduate students to work with CCAR to improve the GHG reporting standards based on UCB experience and research.
Funded?:
No
Earth Week 2008
Submitted by cmjones on April 25, 2007 - 12:16pm.Title:
Earth Week 2008
Summary:
Project to cover the cost of showing environmental films and advance printed posters/ads/fliers to promote participation in the upcoming Earth Week 2008.
Need: $4,000, 25% funded
Contact Person:
Christina Oatfield
Contact E-mail:
Funded?:
Partial
Environment and Technology from the Policy and Business Perspectives
Submitted by cmjones on April 19, 2007 - 10:22am.Department:
PUB POL
Course Number:
290
Course Title:
Environment and Technology from the Policy and Business Perspectives
Instructor:
Taylor
Description:
The natural environment and technology are inextricably linked. The natural environment provides both the initial inputs as well as the ultimate disposal locations for the technologies that drive today's economy. As a result of the close relationship between the environment and human technology, technology has at times been cast as both the ultimate villain and the ultimate hero in environmental policy circles. This class introduces students to many features of the relationship between technology and the natural environment over time. It explores past (for the most part) environmental policy issues, such as acid rain and ozone depletion, through the lens of specific technologies that were important to both policy and business interests. It introduces some of the environmental strategies that are being used by both policy-makers and business to affect technology development and adoption today (e.g., Energy Star, TQEM). And it delves into the climate change debate, an ongoing issue on the environmental policy agenda in which harnessing the forces of technological innovation will be crucial to environmental progress.
Units:
4
Offered:
Fall and Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
Energy and Environmental Markets
Submitted by cmjones on April 19, 2007 - 10:13am.Department:
BA
Course Number:
212
Course Title:
Energy and Environmental Markets
Instructor:
Wolfram, Bushnell
Description:
Drawing on the tools of economics and finance, we study the business and public policy issues that these changes have raised in energy markets. Topics include the development and effect of organized spot, futures, and derivative markets in energy; the political economy of deregulation; climate change, environmental impacts and policies related to energy production and use; privatization of publicly owned energy assets; market power and antitrust; and the transportation and storage of energy commodities. We examine the economic determinants of industry structure and evolution of competition among firms in these industries; investigate successful and unsuccessful strategies for entering new markets and competing in existing markets; and analyze the rationale for and effects of public policies in energy markets.
Offered:
Fall and Spring
Course Type:
Graduate
Climate Change: Law and Policy
Submitted by cmjones on April 18, 2007 - 11:36am.Department:
Boalt
Course Number:
272.3
Course Title:
Climate Change: Law and Policy
Instructor:
Frank, Payne
Units:
2
Offered:
Fall
Course Type:
Graduate
