Third campus visit touches on affordability, sustainability and outreach to local high-schoolers.
Berkeley names Faculty Climate Action Champion
Whendee Silver's work in soils and carbon earned her recognition as part of UC's Carbon Neutrality Initiative.
UC launches Cool Campus Challenge in a push toward carbon neutrality
'We’re on our way to becoming the very first university system to wipe out our carbon footprint for good.'
West Village marches toward zero net energy
Nation’s largest planned zero net energy community is 82 percent on the way to its goal.
Making batteries with portobello mushrooms
Can mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time? Engineering researchers at UC Riverside think so.
Sun and salt: how solar tech can help California’s drought
Researchers at UC Merced are turning to an unlikely ally to help solve the problem of water availability for California’s farmlands: the sun.
Got a big idea? Save the world and win prizes
This year’s Big Ideas student innovation contest features nine categories, including the newly extended Energy & Resource Alternatives category, sponsored by the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative.