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
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?
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
2023 Annual Lecture with Catherine Koshland: Lighting the Way with Interdisciplinary Research
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
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
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
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
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 »
Research from ERG’s Esther Shears in Nature Climate Change Compares Models of Climate Governance
ERG PhD student Esther Shears is an author of a recently published paper in Nature Climate Change, undertaking a comparative study of national climate governance. To read the full piece, … Continue Reading »