National Public Gardens DayCome celebrate National Public Gardens Day with UCBG! National Public Gardens Day is a celebration of America's public gardens and their important role in promoting environmental stewardship and awareness, plant and water conservation and education. Better Homes and Gardens magazine offers BHG readers a free admission coupon for two to ...
Join Ira Flatow for the live broadcast of National Public Radio's Science Friday, the weekly science radio program broadcast to more than one million listeners across hundreds of NPR's affiliate stations. The program's slogan is "making science radioactive."Berg Hall
Our world's most pressing challenges, such as Climate Change, energy insecurity, water insecurity, social inequity, and food insecurity are integrated challenges that are marked by scale, complexity, and urgency. In some ways, the state of the crisis is a manifestation of our current approaches and institutional structures. Our disciplines work ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Exploratorium: A Learning Laboratory for the 21st CenturySite, science and architecture converge to expand our notions of place, learning and landscape. The Exploratorium, the world-renowned museum of science and learning laboratory, founded and based in San Francisco, opens in April at its new location along the Embarcadero waterfront. Architect L'Italien and artist Lani will discuss how this ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, Free Members, $7 Students
History of the DeltaLearn about the history of the delta - from the early 1800s up to 2012 - from framing, discovery of gold, railroad building, and levee building to the present time with Ranger Bill. 1,000 miles in scope, 60-80 man made islands, and a population that exceeds 500,000! Historical. Educational. Informative.
Where: SausalitoCost: Free
Rocks Don't Lie: Noah's Flood and the History of the EarthSpeaker: David R. Montgomery is a Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he leads the Geomorphological Research Group and is a member of the Quaternary Research Center. Montgomery received his B.S. in geology from Stanford University in 1984, and his Ph.D. in ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Green Expectations: Current Effects of Anticipated Carbon PricingMarkets respond not just to current emission policies but also to expectations of future emission policies. We show that a future carbon pricing policy has an anticipation effect which, in theory, increases emissions prior to the policy's start date. We then identify this anticipation effect in energy markets: coal futures ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Problems with and solutions to global sustainability: culture, biology, and sociopolitical practicesThis is the final event in the Berkeley Sawyer Seminar series on "Speciesism and the Future of Humanity," funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, featuring lectures and discussion with Paul Ehrlich and Clive Hamilton. Please RSVP to ematthes@berkeley.eduFeatured Speakers: Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies and Director of ...
Join three certified science fiction and space nuts in an evening illustrating how storytelling and science come together in the most natural of ways. Structured around the "Scientific Method of Story," Jim Capobianco, Kevin O'Brien and Derek Thompson, an Apollo triumvirate of story knowledge, will illustrate their talk with images, ...
Where: OaklandCost: $23 General, $20 Members in advance; $29 at door
