From an undergraduate in EneRes 100: Energy and Society to an ERG Assistant Professor! Get to know the Energy and Resources Group’s newest faculty member, Paige Weber. What past experiences … Continue Reading »
Paige Weber: Faculty Spotlight
Annelise Gill-Wiehl Challenges Cookstove Emission Research
Berkeley’s own Annelise Gill-Wiehl’s conducts research on the affect of efficient cookstoves in Tanzania. Gill-Wiehl, Daniel Kammen, and Kathrine Lau’s findings share that these cookstoves are “overestimated” in their carbon … Continue Reading »
ERG Alumni Rebekah Shirley Featured by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division
ERG Cal Alumni Rebekah Shirley, has a Q&A with Cal Alumni Association as a deputy director of World Resources Institute Africa in sharing her work and hopes in the world’s … Continue Reading »
Berkeley will launch new Masters of Climate Solutions degree in 2025
Organizations, cities, and states around the world are charting paths to quantify and curtail their carbon emissions and uncovering business avenues within climate solutions. In addition to focusing on reducing … Continue Reading »
Zeke Hausfather (PhD ’19) on climate change reality and hope
ERG Alum Zeke Hausfather, Climate Research Lead at Stripe and Research Scientist at Berkeley Earth, published an opinion piece in the New York Times, outlining the dire realities of the … Continue Reading »
Climate Action Seed and Matching Grants to fuel the work of ERG Alumni and Faculty
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
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
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.