The following stories include news articles, events and announcements about and by RAEL lab members.
Media
California's first carbon auction launches pollution market
November, 2012
Marketplace - Sustainability
A big auction ended here in California. On offer, more than 60 million tons of carbon pollution. Sort of. The state auctioned millions of permits to emit carbon dioxide, and other greenhouse gases. And with that it launched one of the biggest markets for pollution in the world.
Read full article for Kammen's response.
CBC Radio Interview with Dan Kammen - Power Security and Sustainability
November, 2012
CBC Radio | Spark
Nora speaks with Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at the University of California Berkeley and a member of the United Nation'sSustainable Energy For All task force. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, we wanted to talk with him about about access to power.
Congrats to undergrad RAEL advisee Kelley Doyle - Sustainability award for senior thesis on campus emissions
October, 2012
UC Berkeley News Center
A recent UC Berkeley graduate has won a sustainability research award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) for her senior thesis calculating the campus’s greenhouse gas emissions based on its entire supply chain of goods and services.
Kelley Doyle, who received a B.S. in environmental sciences in May 2012, presented her thesis, “Converting university spending to greenhouse gas emissions: A supply chain carbon footprint analysis of UC Berkeley,” at AASHE’s annual conference in Los Angeles earlier this year. She won the association’s undergraduate research award for 2012.