Posts Tagged: carbon neutrality
Join the Cool Campus Challenge April 1-26, 2019
Dear Colleagues,
The University of California is on its way to becoming the first university system to wipe out its carbon footprint by 2025, as part of President Napolitano's Carbon Neutrality Initiative. We can do it, but only if we do it together.
Participating in UC's collective effort will demonstrate UC ANR's commitment to protecting California's natural resources and building climate-resilient communities and ecosystems.
That's why I'm asking you to join in the Cool Campus Challenge and move us closer to becoming carbon-free. ANR is teaming up with UCOP for the challenge, and we'll compete on the side against the other UCOP units.
If you sign up, you'll get weekly emails with actions you can take to lower your carbon emissions in classrooms, labs, offices, homes and when traveling. As you take action, you will score points for ANR in the competition. Trophies will be awarded for locations with the most points and most points per participant.
Please take a minute to learn more and become part of the Cool Campus Challenge by registering at CoolCampusChallenge.org. Let's show the UC community that UC ANR is Cool!
Glenda Humiston
Vice President
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Carbon Neutrality Initiative fellows seek to reduce our carbon footprint
UC Berkeley doctoral candidates Jose Daniel Lara, Allegra Mayer and Carmen Tubbesing, UC ANR's Carbon Neutrality Initiative (CNI) fellows for 2017-18, are studying new sources of renewable energy and strategies to cut carbon emissions.
The UC President's Carbon Neutrality Initiative Student Fellowship Program, established in 2015, funds student-generated projects that support the UC system's goal to produce zero-net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
The 2017-18 CNI fellows:
Jose Daniel Lara of San Jose, Costa Rica, is a first-year Ph.D. candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. Lara aims to determine the feasibility of producing electric power from dead trees. To analyze the resources available from tree die-off, he will develop a method to simulate harvesting of dead trees and evaluate the cost of harvesting dead biomass for electricity production. These results will inform policies regarding the use of biomass feedstocks to generate electric power and help mitigate the consequences of massive tree die-offs in forest communities throughout California.