General Sustainability Announcements

Tell the National Wildlife Federation about your campus's project to
fight global warming and WIN!
Prizes include:
* A free public screening of An Inconvenient Truth, courtesy of
Paramount Pictures
* Up to $1000 for your project
* A video feature in Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global
Warming, NWF's Campus Ecology's nationwide multimedia broadcast on April
18, 2007!

There are two easy ways to enter!
* Submit 500 words or less about your project
* Create a short video and upload it onto NWF's Campus Ecology
Chill Out Contest YouTube group! www.youtube.com/group/nwfchillout

We are looking for creative and unique solutions and entries!

Deadline to submit an essay is February 2, 2007.
Deadline to submit a video is March 1, 2007.

Go to www.nwf.org/chillout to enter!!

The Berkeley Institute of the Environment and The Center for Environmental Public Policy present:
The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change:
An Overview by
Dimitri Zenghelis
Member of the Stern Review Team

4:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Room 250, Goldman School of Public Policy
2607 Hearst Avenue

About the Speaker:
Dimitri Zenghelis is a UK government economic adviser who has spent the last year working with Sir Nicholas Stern on the Stern Review on Economics of Climate Change, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown. The Review was intended not just to inform UK policymaking – UK makes up only 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions – but to underpin discussions about the wider international policy framework. Sir Nicholas Stern's report was submitted to the Chancellor and the Prime Minister on 30 October 2006. Dimitri Zenghelis was lead author on the costs of mitigation, model analyses and comparisons, 'competitiveness' impacts, and a significant contributor to the conceptual, theoretical and ethical framework adopted in analysing the economics of climate change. He is also the joint-lead in disseminating and presenting the Review post-publication.

Since joining HM Treasury in 1999 Dimitri has provided economic analysis and advice for the UK Government on European and international economic policy, as head of the EMU Analysis Branch and head of Economic Forecasting. He has been responsible for the internal and published Government macroeconomic forecast using the HM Treasury model and provided regular briefings to the Chancellor Gordon Brown and Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Prior to joining HM Treasury Dimitri has worked as a consultant with Oxford Economic Forecasting, and at the Institute of International Finance, Washington DC on East Asian and S.E. Asia trade and investment flows, and macro economic policy. He also worked for Tokai Bank Europe, London. In the early 1990s Dimitri was a Senior Economic Advisor for the Liberal Democrats, House of Commons, London. His university education was at Bristol University and St Hugh's College Oxford.
Dimitri_Zenghelis_lecture.pdf

The UC Energy Institute has put out its RFP for projects to run for one year from July 1 2007 for $10,000 - $35,000. Details below and at www.ucei.berkeley.edu. Proposals are due by Feb 2 2007.

The University of California Energy Institute (UCEI) requests proposals for two grant programs: (1) California Energy Studies, and (2) Energy Science and Technology. The range of subjects appropriate for both programs includes energy production (resources and supply systems), efficient energy use, and environmental and health effects of energy production and use. California Energy Studies includes also the economics, politics, and regulation of energy systems. Energy relevance is a key criterion in the review process.

Proposers must be employed by the University of California and qualified to be principal investigators at a University campus. Awards will be announced on or about May 18, 2007 for the period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008. Awards typically will be in the range of $10,000 to $35,000. Decisions on awards will be made competitively on the basis of a review process. Additional encouragement is offered to faculty early in their careers.

Proposers should consult the UCEI November 2006 "Guide for California Energy Studies Proposers" or "Guide for Energy Science and Technology Proposers" for information about the content, format, and methods of submission of proposals and the criteria and procedures for review. The Guides are available in the offices of many campus departments and organized research units, directly from UCEI, and electronically through our web site.

CALIFORNIA ENERGY STUDIES PROGRAM
The California Energy Studies Program fosters research on critical energy problems and issues facing California. Its purpose is to provide a better intellectual basis for energy decisions in both public and private sectors in the State. The program includes research in the natural sciences, engineering, and social sciences. However, technical research without major near term significance for California is more appropriate for the Energy Science and Technology Program. Proposals are invited for new research projects and for continuation of projects currently supported by UCEI. Awards will be based on individual merit, although UCEI may choose to concentrate funding in areas that have particular relevance to California's energy future and where UCEI's contribution can be especially significant.

ENERGY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
The Energy Science and Technology Program focuses on generic, scientific and technical energy problems. The purpose of the program is to foster the development of basic and applied energy research funded by extramural sources. Criteria for award decisions include the potential for extramural funding. Proposals should include a plan for solicitation of extramural funds from specified agencies. Awards are for seed funding only; anyone who received a previous EST grant either (a) during the past two years (2005-2006, 2006-2007) or (b) on a related topic is ineligible. Recipients of awards are expected to produce extramural proposals within the period of the award and to indicate their UCEI affiliation on the proposals

Jim Reilly, Senior Energy and Environment Advisor at the British Embassy in Washington DC is visiting the BIE and will be speaking at the ERG200 class next Thursday 3:30 in the ERG Reading Room (310 Barrows) about Climate Change policy. All are welcome to attend (especially students).

Please RSVP to Joanne_Birdsall@berkeley.edu if you plan to attend.

Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1:00 and 1:30 PM tours
at Channing-Bowditch Apartments

Tours are open to all members of the campus community. To learn more about the tours or to sign up for a tour (reservation required) e- mail greenroomucb@gmail.com or visit http://greencampus.berkeley.edu/GR.


Press release:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/09_green.shtml

Come join us for the Grand Opening of the Green Apartment! Take a tour of the Green Apartment and learn how you can live more sustainably. The Green Apartment is an interactive showcase in Channing-Bowditch Apartments equipped with sustainable products and information that can help you have a lesser impact on the environment. It demonstrates how a typical college student can live more sustainably without spendin copious amounts of money and drastically changing his/her lifestyle. This apartment educates visitors on "conscious consumerism" and changes in behavior that lessen one's impact on the environment. The room also showcases sustainable personal care products and Energy Star appliances.

Come see AC transit Hydrogen Bus and learn about hydrogen transportation options and AC Transit's innovative alternate transportation projects.

On November 15, 2006 from 4:00-5:00 PM, Jaimie Levin, Director of Marketing and Alternate Fuels Policy for AC Transit, will visit campus with a hydrogen bus, and conduct a "class" onboard for our ES 24 Freshman seminar.

We invite you to join us, and to share this invitation with other who might find the subject interesting.

Please meet at North Gate, by the bus stop at 4:10 PM. First come, first served.