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Climate Action Seed and Matching Grants to fuel the work of ERG Alumni and Faculty

August 31, 2023
Neighborhood with rooftop solar.

The University of California awarded more than $80 million in state-funded grants to spur climate action this August through the Climate Action Seed and Matching Grant program. ERG alum Patricia … Continue Reading »

A biotechnology that disrupts mosquito-borne disease is resistant to climate change

August 4, 2023

ERG PhD student Váleri Vásquez, with ERG Professor Lara Kueppers, recently published a paper in Nature Climate Change with some good news for our ability to control infectious diseases passed … Continue Reading »

Climate change is an energy problem, here’s how we solve it

July 20, 2023

ERG Professors Duncan Callaway, Dan Kammen, and John Harte offer some good news in the California Magazine Optimism Issue on how the use of solar, EV, mini-grids, and carbon sinks … Continue Reading »

Can railways provide a solution for energy reliability?

June 22, 2023

ERG’s Jill Moraski recently published a paper in Nature Energy examining the potential to use the US rail system as a nationwide backup transmission grid over which containerized batteries, or … Continue Reading »

Energy Access in Informal Settlements: ERG’s Jess Kersey and Dan Kammen Convene a Conference for the Spotlight Kampala Collaboration

May 23, 2023

Colleagues from Uganda, Washington, Arizona and West Virginia travel to Berkeley to progress joint work with ERG’s Jess Kersey and Dan Kammen on the Spotlight Kampala initiative.

2023 Annual Lecture with Catherine Koshland: Lighting the Way with Interdisciplinary Research

April 13, 2023

The 2023 ERG Annual Lecture took place on Thursday, April 13, featuring Catherine Koshland speaking on the importance and value of interdisciplinary research. A recording of her lecture, entitled “Lighting … Continue Reading »

Advocating for Women on World Water Day

March 22, 2023

New commentary published in the Lancet on World Water Day (March 22) calls on researchers, policy makers, and professionals to strengthen their commitment to addressing gender inequities in global water delivery systems. Co-authored … Continue Reading »

Brookings Institute Launches Carbon Scoring Taskforce with UC Berkeley’s David Anthoff and Meredith Fowlie

March 16, 2023

The Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institute has launched a new taskforce to create a blueprint for a federal Office of Carbon Scoring. The taskforce includes co-chair … Continue Reading »

ERG’s Crespo Montañés and Kammen on Centering Equity In the Clean Energy Transition

March 13, 2023

A commentary with authorship by ERG PhD student Cristina Crespo Montañés and ERG professor Dan Kammen has recently been published in Science Direct on how we can center principles of … Continue Reading »

ERG’s Maria Villalpando Examines Food Sovereignty in Rural Mexico Through Tortillas

February 27, 2023

A piece by ERG PhD student Maria Villalpando was recently published in the Feminist Food Journal on how the history of tortillas can inform our discussion of food sovereignty in … Continue Reading »

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