Author Archives: rael@ianumeda.com

1. ERGs Big Event

   April 10, 2015 4:08 pm Comments Off on ERGs Big Event

   April 10, 2014:

   The ERG Big Event was a remark­able gath­er­ing put togeth­er by a most amaz­ing group of ERG alums and cur­rent stu­dents, with > 42% atten­dance by all ERG alumni!

   The orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee put togeth­er a social and intel­lec­tu­al home run.

   Just a few images to high­light this amaz­ing week­end to whet the appetite for more of these in the future.

   

   Frak­er, Hol­dren, Kam­men, Harte at the Big Event

   

   Dan Sanchez, Sin­tana Ver­gara, Ana MIl­e­va, and Ran­jit Desh­mukh at the ERG Big Event

   

   Josh Apte dis­cuss­es his work with Julian Mar­shall on air pollution

2. Professor Kammen Guest on KALW – Your Call: How will Gov. Jerry Brown’s green energy goals transform CA?

   January 15, 2015 1:04 pm Comments Off on Professor Kammen Guest on KALW – Your Call: How will Gov. Jerry Brown’s green energy goals transform CA?

   On the Jan­u­ary 15th edi­tion of Your Call, we’ll have a con­ver­sa­tion about how California’s plan to get half of its elec­tric­i­ty from renew­able sources will trans­form the state’s ener­gy land­scape? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a con­ver­sa­tion about Gov­er­nor Jer­ry Brown’s ambi­tious plan to reduce petro­le­um in cars and trucks by up to 50 per­cent and dou­ble the effi­cien­cy of exist­ing build­ings. What does this mean for the renew­able indus­try and what’s in store for California’s ener­gy future? Join the con­ver­sa­tion on the next Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

   Guests:

   Daniel Kam­men, pro­fes­sor of ener­gy at UC, Berkeley

   Peter Miller, senior sci­en­tist in the ener­gy and trans­porta­tion pro­gram at the Nat­ur­al Resources Defense Council

   Link: http://​kalw​.org/​p​o​s​t​/​y​o​u​r​-​c​a​l​l​-​h​o​w​-​w​i​l​l​-​g​o​v​-​j​e​r​r​y​-​b​r​o​w​n​s​-​g​r​e​e​n​-​e​n​e​r​g​y​-​g​o​a​l​s​-​t​r​a​n​s​f​o​r​m​-ca

3. Igniting Protest: Will UC Make History By Pulling the Plug on Fossil Fuel Investments?

   April 28, 2014 9:08 am Comments Off on Igniting Protest: Will UC Make History By Pulling the Plug on Fossil Fuel Investments?

   http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014–04-26/igniting-protest-will-uc-make-history-pulling-plug-fossil

   When 29-year-old UC Berke­ley stu­dent Ophir Bruck spot­ted Sher­ry Lans­ing, the for­mer CEO of Para­mount Pic­tures, on her way to a Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia Regents meet­ing, he was hold­ing on to a key that he hoped she wouldn’t refuse.

4. E360 Comment: Why the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Will Succeed

   9:07 am Comments Off on E360 Comment: Why the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Will Succeed

   http://​e360​.yale​.edu/​E​3​6​0​_​C​o​m​m​e​n​t​_​W​h​y​_​t​h​e​_​F​o​s​s​i​l​_​F​u​e​l​_​D​i​v​e​s​t​m​e​n​t​_​M​o​v​e​m​e​n​t​_​W​i​l​l​_​S​u​c​c​e​e​d​.​msp

   Sci­en­tists Charles H. Greene, of Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty, and Daniel M. Kam­men, of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley, offer this com­men­tary on the recent Yale Envi­ron­ment 360 Point/​Counterpoint arti­cles by Bob Massie and Robert N. Stavins on the fos­sil fuel divest­ment movement.

5. UC’s investments in fossil fuels are hurting the planet (Daily Cal)

   9:06 am Comments Off on UC’s investments in fossil fuels are hurting the planet (Daily Cal)

   http://​www​.dai​ly​cal​.org/​2​0​1​3​/​1​2​/​0​3​/​u​c​-​i​n​v​e​s​t​m​e​n​t​s​-​f​o​s​s​i​l​-​f​u​e​l​s​-​h​u​r​t​i​n​g​-​p​l​a​n​et/

   Today, UC Berke­ley and most insti­tu­tions are finan­cial­ly invest­ed in destroy­ing our future.

   This may sound a lit­tle bit sur­pris­ing to some — even unfound­ed. Let me explain. When it comes to cli­mate change, the sci­en­tif­ic com­mu­ni­ty has pre­sent­ed a clear, unam­bigu­ous mes­sage: Human burn­ing of fos­sil fuels — coal, oil and nat­ur­al gas — is putting our world at risk.

6. An innovation-focused roadmap for a sustainable global photovoltaic industry

   9:05 am Comments Off on An innovation-focused roadmap for a sustainable global photovoltaic industry

   http://​pvide​al​ab​.berke​ley​.edu/​i​n​n​o​v​a​t​i​o​n​_​i​n​_​P​V​_​i​n​d​u​s​t​r​y​.​h​tml

   In this paper, we col­lect­ed a com­pre­hen­sive dataset of the PV indus­try dur­ing 2000–2012, and framed the data in per­spec­tives. By exam­in­ing the cur­rent indus­try sta­tus, we devel­oped a set of pol­i­cy rec­om­men­da­tions for a sus­tain­able glob­al PV indus­try going forward.