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09 December 2009

What Can Be Accomplished from the Copenhagen Conference?

Reprinted from the Los Angeles Times

by Prof. David Roland-Holst

Because it respects no borders, the atmosphere is the ultimate public resource. Yet until now, air quality and climate have been thought of as matters of only local or national interest. That is changing. We now know that all of our striving for prosperity is altering the climate.

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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 8:31


23 November 2009

Tom Graff: A practical environmental visionary

By Professor David Zilberman, Agricultural and Resource Economics

As the world is preparing for a big environmental summit in Copenhagen, knowing that an agreement is very unlikely, it’s become apparent how difficult it is to reach an environmental agreement that can stick and change the course of history. People that can bring about such agreement are really rare, and last week we lost one of them, Tom Graff.

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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 0:53


03 November 2009

Discussing the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

Professor Michael Hanemann of ARE discusses S.1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, on KPFA's "Letters to Washington."

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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 1:56


21 October 2009

Toward a More Integrated Social Science

By Professor David Zilberman

I got a kick out of learning that Eleanor Ostrom and Berkeley’s Oliver Williamson won the Nobel in Economics. I had a similar response when the Psychologist, Dan Kahneman, won the prize. These are important steps in the expansion of economics and establishing an integrated social science based on rigorous logical thinking and empiricism. This integrated new social science will provide insight on how people think and interact and how to improve the human condition.

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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 8:45


28 September 2009

1.9 Million New Jobs Could Be Created by Climate & Energy Bills Being Considered by Congress

by Professor David Roland-Holst, ARE

A new analysis by ARE economists at University of California, Berkeley finds that the pollution reduction and energy efficiency measures contained in the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) – already passed by the U.S. House of Representatives -- could create between 918,000 and 1.9 million new jobs, increase annual household income by $487-1,175 per year and boost Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by $39 - $111 billion by 2020.

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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 2:13


12 August 2009

Agroecology, Small Farms, and Food Sovereignty

Global forces are challenging the ability of develop ing countries to feed themselves. A number of countries have organized their economies around a competitive export-oriented agricultural sector, based mainly on monocultures.

It may be argued that agricultural exports of crops such as soybeans from Brazil make significant contributions to the national economies by bringing in hard currency that can be used to purchase other goods from abroad.

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Posted by Cyril at 1:10


17 January 2008

"Buy local" applies to forests, too

by Dean Keith Gilless

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26 October 2007

ESPM grad student interviewed by NPR, describes fighting fire

Rachel Smith, a graduate student in Environmental Science, Policy and Management with the Moritz Lab, was recently interviewed by NPR about her experiences fighting fire in Southern California.

Excerpted from the interview:

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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 0:41


25 September 2007

Opinion: Thinning trees helps environment

By Bill Dennison, Cal Forestry alum & past president of the California Forestry Association

The U.S. Forest Service recently became the first federal agency to register with the California Climate Action Registry, a first step to track greenhouse gas emissions attributable to global climate change from U.S. Forest Service operations.

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Posted by Cyril at 3:59


01 August 2007

China's Chance to Lead

This op-ed, by Assistant Professor Max Auffhammer and UCSD economist Richard Carson, originally appeared in the Washington Post on August 2, 2007.

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Posted by Cyril at 3:20


03 April 2007

Editorial: Unabomber has no place on list of alumni who "excelled"

The College of Natural Resources finds it deeply regrettable that Ted Kazcynski, widely known as the Unabomber, was recently included in a California magazine list of Berkeley alumni who have "excelled in every field."

Kazcynski, who was not a Cal alumnus but an assistant math professor for two years in the late 60s, mailed 16 bombs over more than a decade, killing three and injuring 29. In 1995, one of his bombs killed Gil Murray, Forestry '75.

Note (4/6/07): California magazine's online edition now lists an Editor's note, which is much appreciated:

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19 January 2007

Relying on Berkeley research, California establishes groundbreaking carbon standard for fuels

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has issued an executive order calling for California to establish the world's first carbon standard for transportation fuels. (Read about it in the Governor's op-ed here.)

Relying on research by David Roland-Holst, adjunct professor in ARE, the governor writes:

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03 January 2007

Bringing carbon buyers and sellers to market

This editorial by Professor David Sunding appeared Dec. 28, 2006, in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's executive order to begin implementation of a market-based compliance program encouraging businesses to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is clearly a step in the right direction toward cleaning our air of harmful carbon particulates. The next step is to make it financially attractive enough for businesses to comply with the program.

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Posted by Cyril at 0:23


21 August 2006

Not facing warming is costly

From a letter to the Sacramento Bee by Prof. Michael Hanemann:

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Posted by Cyril at 3:50


07 April 2006

Selling Out or Buying In?

By Dara O'Rourke | April 5, 2006

A U D I O

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Posted by Cyril at 0:33


13 January 2006

Forest landowners playing role in fight against global warming

By Andrea Tuttle

California's forests have something to celebrate.

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Posted by Cyril at 4:15


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