Collaboration

Com­mu­ni­ty Organizations 

We love con­tribut­ing to the pub­lic good with oth­er great orga­ni­za­tions!  Thus, we have a lot of friends. Please check out the won­der­ful work of:

• Michael Dove, Yale Uni­ver­si­ty http://​envi​ron​ment​.yale​.edu/​p​r​o​f​i​l​e​/​d​ove co-author on mul­ti­ple arti­cles, includ­ing ‘Mun­dane Sci­ence’ and a 2012 book
• Arne Jacob­son, Hum­boldt State Uni­ver­si­ty http://​users​.hum​boldt​.edu/​a​r​ne/ col­lab­o­ra­tor on papers and publications
• Grid Alter­na­tives founders: Eri­ca Mack­ie and Tim Sears, http://​www​.gri​dal​ter​na​tives​.org/ sup­port­ed, project collaborator
• Solar City http://​www​.solarci​ty​.com/ joint projects for the Cal­i­for­nia Ener­gy Commission
• Enphase Ener­gy http://​enphase​.com/ sup­port­er and col­lab­o­ra­tor on ways to reduce the total bal­ance of sys­tem cost, and the boost the out­put of solar ener­gy systems
• Hanse-Wis­senschaft­skol­leg (HWK), Insti­tute for Advanced Study http://www.h‑w-k.de/startseite.html?&L=1
• Col­lab­o­ra­tion with HWK on mak­ing ener­gy research a new core area for the Ger­man Inst. for Advanced Study
• + MORE to come!

Fel­low­ships in Ener­gy and Sustainability

We also know that it can be hard to enter and stay in this field. We have com­plied a num­ber of oppor­tu­ni­ties in the fol­low­ing spread­sheet doc­u­ment. It can be down­loaded in three for­mats, Open Office, Microsoft Office, and pdf. ( OODOC PDF

Intern­ship Opportunities

These intern­ships are UNPAID because it takes us sig­nif­i­cant time and effort to coor­di­nate work­ing with you and ensure we meet our mutu­al needs (yours, ours, soci­ety’s etc). What we do pro­vide is guid­ance, tem­plates, and a sup­port­ive envi­ron­ment. We expect a lot of work and a lot of laugh­ter; we all pitch in for con­stant snacks and ways to reju­ve­nate each oth­er. If this sounds like an envi­ron­ment you could also thrive in, please send us an email with your inter­ests, your resume and if you/​your uni­ver­si­ty is will­ing to pro­vide any fund­ing for you.

Build Your Resume: Intern at the Cool­Cli­mate Net­work Fall 2012

At present, our pri­ma­ry needs include:

FUNDRAISING INTERN (unpaid)

You may be new to the busi­ness world but are charm­ing and have lots of cre­ative ideas on how to attract and retain fun­ders for the
Cool Cal­i­for­nia Chal­lenge http://www.cool​cal​i​for​nia​.org/​c​o​m​m​u​n​i​ty-chal­lenge. You’re a pro at online social net­work­ing, love both cold call­ing and devel­op­ing longer-term rela­tion­ships with com­pa­nies doing good deeds that you think should be involved in our unique State-wide cam­paign. Please e‑mail challenge@​coolcalifornia.​org to find out more.

DRUPAL THEMER INTERN (unpaid)

We need to re-brand cool​cli​mate​.berke​ley​.edu to bet­ter show folks how we research to cre­ate tools in order to sup­port pro­grams. We know what we want to high­light — and are open to sug­ges­tions but just don’t have to imple­ment these into a web­site. We also know what cod­ing best prac­tices are and will make sure you fol­low them… so it could be good learn­ing expe­ri­ence for those of you who know the basics of HTML and CSS and just ready to learn to theme (i.e. bring­ing Dru­pal and its PHP quirks into your toolk­it). Please con­tact miayamauchi@​berkeley.​edu to find out more.

API ADDICT (unpaid)

We have data that the world wants to use, and we want to share, but we need to set up an
infra­struc­ture to do so. In this intern­ship you would have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to open up our GHG foot­print data using best prac­tices on open and linked data. The Cool­Cli­mate Team cool​cli​mate​.berke​ley​.edu has numer­ous mod­els and tools of GHG emis­sions at zip­code-lev­el gran­u­lar­i­ty that we want to grow, and the world to be able to use, but we need help mak­ing this dream come true. We know the basic best-prac­tices, but just don’t have the time to imple­ment the project. If you do, this would be a won­der­ful con­tri­bu­tion to soci­ety, and look excel­lent on your resume. You don’t need to be a cod­ing genius but rel­e­vant expe­ri­ence with basic
stan­dards would be ide­al. Please con­tact miayamauchi@​berkeley.​edu to find out more.

ASSISTANT MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS EDITOR INTERN(s) (unpaid)

You’re a moti­vat­ed under­grad­u­ate media stud­ies or grad­u­ate school of jour­nal­ism stu­dent look­ing to build their resume and make a real impact on a live, on-the-ground pro­gram with jour­nal­ism genius and edi­to­r­i­al imag­i­na­tion. Assis­tant edi­tors with the Cool­Cal­i­for­nia Chal­lenge gen­er­ate buzz, inter­est and excite­ment around the chal­lenge to main­tain momen­tum that is cru­cial to sup­port­ing com­mu­ni­ty-based sus­tain­abil­i­ty efforts. Tell the Chal­lenge sto­ry through con­duct­ing inter­views, fol­low­ing up on sto­ry leads, gen­er­at­ing sto­ry angles and writ­ing Chal­lenge news updates, blogs, social media posts and newslet­ter con­tent tai­lored to var­i­ous audi­ences and goals.

VISUAL DESIGNER(s) (unpaid)

Take a look at http://coolclimate.berke​ley​.edu/  and http://​rael​.berke​ley​.edu/. It should be obvi­ous that we need aes­thet­ic aid. We could use both web
and print stu­dents, but we have most expe­ri­ence on user-inter­face and inter­ac­tion design (not that you could tell by the tools that are
cur­rent­ly dis­played ;)). While we can offer your resources on best-prac­tice web-design, we’re hop­ing that you’ll be able to bring your aes­thet­ic eye to a vari­ety of print and web media. This would be a fan­tas­tic and var­ied port­fo­lio builder for numer­ous good caus­es. Please con­tactmiayamauchi@​berkeley.​edu to find out more.

MARKETING MANAGER for the Cool­Cli­mate Cool­Cal­i­for­nia Chal­lenge (unpaid)

You may be new to the mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ty but you’re a self-starter and have lots of cre­ative ideas on how to sup­port  the Cool Cal­i­for­nia Chal­lenge http://www.cool​cal​i​for​nia​.org/​c​o​m​m​u​n​i​ty-chal­lenge. You’re a pro at online social net­work­ing, are or want to become famil­iar with the adobe suite and love com­ing up with clever slogans,
graph­ics and guer­ril­la adver­tis­ing ideas. If you don’t know about behav­ior change sci­ence you’re a quick learn­er and are ready to read a few books to get on board with this team’s fun-lov­ing, but behav­ior-chang­ing game-plan.  Most impor­tant­ly, you’re super excit­ed to be involved in devel­op­ing  our unique State-wide cam­paign. Please con­tact challenge@​coolcalifornia.​org to find out more.

COMMUNITY LIAISON for the Cool­Cli­mate Cool­Cal­i­for­nia Chal­lenge (unpaid)

Are you inter­est­ed in sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ties, cli­mate action plans, and good ol’ fash­ioned fun? If so, then this is THE oppor­tu­ni­ty for you to apply proven behav­ioral psy­chol­o­gy tech­niques to gar­ner inter­est, gath­er peo­ple, and get results for the larg­er envi­ron­men­tal good in the Cool­Cal­i­for­nia Chal­lenge! The Chal­lenge is a live­ly, inno­v­a­tive com­pe­ti­tion between eight Cal­i­for­nia cities to reduce their com­mu­ni­ty-wide car­bon foot­prints and build more vibrant and viable com­mu­ni­ties. You will be THE nexus between between UC Berke­ley, Cool City Offi­cials, Vol­un­teers, and Par­tic­i­pants. Using a Com­mu­ni­ty Based Social Mar­ket­ing frame­work, you will be assist­ing one Cool City (Davis, Sacra­men­to, Tra­cy, or Chu­la Vista) with var­i­ous respon­si­bil­i­ties such as social out­reach, event coor­di­na­tion, tar­get­ed mes­sag­ing, and more! Set your own sched­ule in a fun work atmos­phere, flex­i­ble hours, and an oppor­tu­ni­ty for excel­lent rec­om­men­da­tions while you learn new skills and build your pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence. We’re locat­ed on the UCB cam­pus in the CITRIS build­ing and have lots of friends. If you’re inter­est­ed in join­ing the Cool­Cal­i­for­nia Chal­lenge team, please send us an email with a cov­er let­ter your inter­ests and your resume.

In exchange for some hard work, on your own sched­ule, we would pro­vide a fun work atmos­phere, flex­i­ble hours, and excel­lent rec­om­men­da­tions. We’re locat­ed on the UCB cam­pus in the CITRIS build­ing and have lots of friends. These intern­ships are per­fect learn­ing expe­ri­ences to enhance your resume while learn­ing new skills. We make sure you work with us to come up with a list of skills you’ll learn by the end of the sum­mer (we have some ideas ;)), and then help you get them, via week­ly to do lists and check-ins accord­ing to the num­ber of hours you’re will­ing to com­mit. There are also numer­ous poten­tial avenues for advance­ment and per­son­al­ized expe­ri­ences. Please con­tact us to learn more. If you’re a graph­ic design­er and want to make what we’ve got bet­ter — we’re all for it, just work with us to help us meet our pri­ma­ry needs too. The more you give the bet­ter our rec­om­men­da­tions will be (but we’re pret­ty darn nice to begin with ;)!

For ques­tions or sug­ges­tions, please con­tact raelmanager@​yahoo.​com

Spe­cif­ic Projects 

Cool Cli­mate Network

Want to cre­ate a peer-reviewed, trans­par­ent and accu­rate car­bon cal­cu­la­tor for your coun­try’s actors (indi­vid­u­als, busi­ness­es, house­holds, local gov­ern­ments, “com­mu­ni­ties” etc…) ? We want to help! Through the Cool­Cli­mate Con­sor­tium (http://​cool​cli​mate​.berke​ley​.edu/) we would like to recruit train and sup­port interns from all con­ti­nents to use our data and tools (in con­junc­tion with their own unique local sources) to devel­op their own coun­try-spe­cif­ic GHG cal­cu­la­tors to facil­i­tate deci­sion sup­port across the globe.

Although we plan to col­lect data on over 100 coun­tries in which to imple­ment our cal­cu­la­tors, and wel­come appli­ca­tions from all con­ti­nents, based on our cur­rent projects, we are espe­cial­ly inter­est­ed in researchers from the fol­low­ing countries:

• Aus­tralia
• Brazil
• Cana­da
• Chi­na
• France
• Ger­many
• Italy
• Japan
• New Zealand
• Nor­way
• Nether­lands
• Sin­ga­pore
• Swe­den
• Unit­ed Kingdom

Opin­ion Edi­to­ri­als & Pol­i­cy Briefs

We encour­age our stu­dents to make their opin­ions known and par­tic­i­pate in their com­mu­ni­ties. We have includ­ed links to some of their work here:

Com­ing!

Open Edu­ca­tion Resources

Access to Pub­lished Information

We sup­port open access jour­nals and open edu­ca­tion­al resources at all lev­els of achieve­ment. Check out Envi­ron­men­tal Research Let­ters, a jour­nal that allows ANYONE to see it’s arti­cles and the data attached to each pub­li­ca­tion.  Unfor­tu­nate­ly, ERL requires a cost placed on authors to pub­lish in this peer-reviewed out­let , but these fees are of lit­tle con­se­quence to aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions and are often waived.

We also try to post all of our arti­cles via this web­site. If you’re look­ing for an arti­cle we’ve pub­lished, that you can’t seem to find, let us know, and we’ll do our best to get it to you (and others!)

Turn­ing our Stu­dents into Teachers

One of the best ways to mas­ter mate­r­i­al is to teach it. Some of our stu­dents also share their find­ings and les­son designs via our course web­sitesthese por­tals:

http://​www​.oer​com​mons​.org/

A larg­er list­ing can be found here: http://​en​.wikipedia​.org/​w​i​k​i​/​O​p​e​n​_​e​d​u​c​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​_​r​e​s​o​u​r​ces and a coor­di­nat­ed, world­wide effort to increase and con­nect these dis­trib­uted knowl­edge por­tals is in the process of being out­lined. (Open can mean a lot of dif­fer­ent things to dif­fer­ent seg­ments of the pop­u­la­tion and open access, does not nec­es­sar­i­ly con­note “free as in beer”. We do not want to get into this long, com­plex and cru­cial­ly impor­tant debate here. How­ev­er, we do want to point you to some var­ied resources about how to choose how to pub­li­cize your work.)

As always, we try to work hard, play nice, and do our best.… please let us know if you have oth­er sug­ges­tions we should incorporate!