Visit over 100 dynamic local green exhibitors: green businesses; environmental and social change organizations; artists; government agencies; community groups. Find tips, products and partners to help you: reduce waste; compost; green your workplace; drive less; build or remodel green; reduce energy use; become a smarter consumer; bring your own bag; ...
Where: OaklandCost: Free
(re)Construction of the Human: Data as MetaphorSpeaker: Lisa Wymore, Assistant Professor in Department of Theater, Dance, and PerformanceLive broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast; Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. The complete schedule for the spring semester is online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-spring2011. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/citrisuc.
Space radiation poses significant risks to human explorers on extended missions beyond Low-Earth Orbit. Crews cannot be fully shielded against Galactic Cosmic Rays owing to their high energies, and sporadic but intense Solar Particle Events may also be hazardous when shielding is minimal. The physics underlying the transport of these ...
Health Care Reform and Private Insurance Market ReformsMr. Herb Schultz, Regional Director*, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will be giving a guest lecture on private insurance market reforms under the Affordable Care Act being implemented by the federal government. Light refreshments will be served.Room 105
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Physics Fun for Kids 5+Dr. Gunjan Chakravarty, PH.D will wow and inspire your kids with Physics all around you! This fun workshop will show kids how they are experiencing physics everyday naturally. For ages 5 and up.
Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene megafauna extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history is crucial for protecting the large animals of today. Deftly navigating competing theories and emerging evidence ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free with admission & for members
The West Coast Groundfish Fishery: fisheries success or failure?The fishery for groundfish off California, Oregon and Washington has been the subject of much concern especially regarding the status of several species of rockfish. The management actions by the Pacific Fishery Management Council were among the first to specifically address the problem of overfishing. I review the history of ...
California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard: A DebateAbsract from Daniel Sperling:The low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) is being implemented in California and the EU and is under serious consideration in over 10 states and Canadian provinces. The LCFS provides a promising and durable policy framework to decarbonize transportation fuels. It is performance based, harnesses market forces (through ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How to Passive House; Critical Assemblies and Design Elements for Low Energy DesignThis will include a very short description of Passive House principles, and is intended to look at design ideas to integrate into your next project to cost effectively achieve low energy construction to reduce heat loss by increased air tightness and reduced thermal bridging. We will show images of the Pt Reyes project during ...
Where: San RafaelCost: $15 General & Door, $10 Members advance
'Coal Country'Passions are running high in the mountains of Appalachia. Families and communities are deeply split over what is being done to the land of West Virginia by Big Coal, the coal mining corporations now practicing mountain top removal. This is the latest form of strip mining where coal companies blast ...
