Water Birds at Lake MerrittMigrating birds are here! See which winter visitors are currently at Lake Merritt, the nation's oldest wildlife refuge.  Join us for a short walk along the lake. Learn about the Pacific Flyway and how to identify some winter migrants as well as year-round residents. We'll begin the walk in front of the ...
Former SF Environment Director Jared Blumenfeld is coming to SFE to talk about his hike from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Bring your lunch and come listen to his talk. There will be props, gear and lots of pictures from his hike. Read more about his ...
The initiative to curtail greenhouse gas emissions that President Barack Obama has made a centerpiece of his second term and that our president-elect will hopefully make it as a priority in his yet-to announced energy policy, has been spurred great interest among automotive companies to expand their portfolio with new ...
The second law of thermodynamics states that for a thermally isolated system entropy never decreases. Most physical processes we observe in nature involve variations of macroscopic quantities over spatial and temporal scales much larger than microscopic molecular collision scales and thus can be considered as in local equilibrium. For a ...
Electricity companies around the world use complex pricing schemes to promote affordable basic electricity services while also encouraging conservation for those who use more electricity. Unfortunately, the basic goals of such pricing systems risk being undermined by their sheer complexity: if households do not understand how they are being charged ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Electron Superhighway: a Quantum Leap for ComputingFor the past 60 years, progress in information technology has been governed by Moore's law, which states that the number of transistors on a semiconductor chip doubles every 18 months. However, this remarkable trend is drawing to a close, mostly because the electrons that carry current in chips move like ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Nerd Nite East Bay #49: Asteroid Law, Dragonflies, and Cognitive DissonanceSo You’d Like to Buy an Asteroid: The Law of Property in Outer Space by Kevin UnderhillGrowing up Dragonfly: the Weird, Wild and Wonderful Life of a Nymph by Christopher BeattyCognitive Dissonance: What’s Feeding Your Inner Zombie by Maren Connary
