Strategic Energy and ControlFind out why strategic energy control (SEC) can be a smart approach for reducing energy consumption in this informative free event. SEC expert Yilmaz Sahinkaya describes the benefits of controlling the amplitude and duration of electrical power and outlines the technical specifications of these breakthrough technologies. He then goes on ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
What's Trending? Sustainable, Prosperous and Greener CorporationsToday, leading companies are using dramatically fewer materials, less energy and safer chemicals when they manufacture products. These innovations impressively address climate change and natural resources depletion while generating corporate profits, community benefits and professional pride. Engineers, managers and interested citizens hear a hopeful, future story based on real-world examples ...
Mandrills are the largest of old world monkeys and according to Darwin are the most brightly colored of all primates. Over the last 5 years the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in the Republic of Congo has rehabilitated nearly 20 of these highly threatened and heavily hunted primates as they were ...
Where: OaklandCost: $12-20 General, $10-20 Members
BLUEMIND: Putting The Science of Emotion Into Ocean ConservationDr. Wallace J. Nichols believes that the environmental "Green Movement" misses the boat with ocean conservation. "J," as he is known, proposes a makeover, what he calls a "Blue Movement," and has founded BLUEMiND: The Mind + Ocean Initiative, merging the fields of cognitive science and ocean exploration. His approach to conservation ...
Where: SausalitoCost: $5 Suggested Donation goes toward Student Research
Why Girls Love ScienceDr. Close is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University's Aero/Astro Department. She heads up the Space Environment and Satellite Systems Lab. She co-hosted the 2011 series, "Known Universe," for the National Geographic Channel. Also, Dr. Close was featured on the PBS Nova program, "Space Dangers." This branch meeting will focus ...
Southernmost South America evokes images of incredible mountain scenery, Cape Horn, and expansive Patagonia. It also has some of the oldest forests on Earth, the Pampas grasslands made famous in stories of the gauchos, and the little-known Chaco dry forest. The Humboldt Current is perhaps the richest part of the ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $5 donation General, members free
Was it ecocide? The collapse of the mini-civilization on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has long been considered one of the great Green morality tales. Once the people there cut down the last tree, story goes, they were doomed. Their famous statues were an arms race that completed the exhaustion of ...
