The UC Berkeley Focus the Nation team will invite local, state and federal political leaders and decision-makers to come to campus and participate in a non-partisan, round-table discussion of global warming. Student leaders are preparing breakout sessions to discuss all aspects of climate change and its connection with environmental sustainability at a policy and action level.

11AM-12PM: Climate Solutions – Institutional, Local, Individual
(Moderated by Prof. Dan Kammen, Energy and Resources Group)
With panelists from Cal Climate Action Partnership, City of Berkeley, Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability, and the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and 1Sky

International House, University of California, Berkeley
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THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT invites you to participate in the 8th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment to develop and advance science-based solutions to climate change.

Join us in the dialogue with leading scientists, policy makers, industry leaders, educators, and other solutions-oriented innovators to develop comprehensive strategies for protecting people and the planet against the threat of climate change. An interactive agenda features skill-building workshops, targeted breakout sessions, plenary sessions, and symposia to provide participants with an expansive understanding of climate change solutions—and how we can achieve them.

The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC

This summit aims to bring together leaders in the investment, clean technology, workforce and public policy sectors. The goal is to advance long-term investment, job creation, and financial growth within the green technology industry with a focus on engaging low-income communities. This Summit will unite principal decision-makers to explore the expectations for growth and demand, new labor opportunities, education and training in the new energy economy in California.

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
* Third Street between Mission and Howard in downtown San Francisco, California

The APS Forum on Physics and Society and Amer. Association of Physics Teachers will hold an energy short course on March 1-2 at UC Berkeley on "Physics of Sustainable Energy: Using Energy Efficiently and Producing it Renewably," The AIP Conference proceedings will follow the tradition set by AIP25(1975) and AIP135(1985).

The speakers are some of the nation's foremost experts, including Steve Chu, Art Rosenfeld, LBL, NREL, EPRI, etc. For $100, the participants get 23 forty-minute talks, 2 lunches and a 500 page AIP Conf. Proceedings! Banquet is $35 additional.

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Evans Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Please visit the website above for directions

The impacts of global warming are becoming ever more apparent. The reliance of US on foreign sources of energy decreases our security. Energy pollution continues to plague urban areas. These concerns highlight the need to come up with solutions to the energy issue. This short course is designed to acquaint physicists with an in-depth technical knowledge of the more promising developments in energy research and to enable them to evaluate energy issues for teaching or for research.

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University of California at Berkeley (Evans Hall)