Members of UC Berkeley’s new Climate Equity and Environmental Justice Roundtable discuss climate displacement from the perspectives of sociology, city planning, geography, engineering, and urban policy.
Berkeley Talks: Damilola Ogunbiyi on driving an equitable energy transition
A podcast featuring the Energy and Resources Group's 2022 annual lecture, given by Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General for Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL).
ERG ANNUAL LECTURE -- Damilola Ogunbiyi on "Driving a Just, Inclusive, and Equitable Energy Transition"
Ogunbiyi's presentation will highlight the level of finance that needs to be leveraged for developing nations to deliver clean energy.
Climate Justice and the Question of Reparations
Panel featuring: Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò, Naomi Klein, Sabrina Fernandes, and Jackie Fielder, moderated by Daniel Aldana Cohen. Organized by UC Berkeley’s Climate Equity and Environmental Justice Roundtable, co-sponsored by the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2.
Historical redlining is associated with present-day air pollution disparities in U.S. cities
A new national analysis of air quality data found a strong correlation between historic housing discrimination and air pollution.
The Society for Freshwater Science Emerge Program promotes diversity in STEM
Continuing lecturer and Essig Museum specialist Patina Mendez helps Emerge scholars develop skills to become freshwater scientists.
Advancing Inclusion and Anti-Racism in the College Classroom
A new tool created by ESPM faculty and students aims to support instructors in developing anti-racist approaches to course design and teaching practices.
Three in Rausser College receive grants for research on Native American Issues
The Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues recently awarded their 2021-22 mini-grants to Ataya Cesspooch, Annalise Taylor, and Anjika Pai.
More Than 400 Hazardous Sites in California Face Flooding
Research by a team that includes Professor Rachel Morello-Frosch suggests flooding could hit power plants, refineries, and hazardous waste sites in many locations across the San Francisco Bay Area and southern California.
Native people take a different view of Thanksgiving
In a recent blog, Cooperative Extension specialist Jennifer Sowerwine and Professors Peter Nelson and Elizabeth Hoover offer insights for adjusting our thinking—and actions—around Thanksgiving.
Professor Peter Nelson adds wildland firefighting to his expertise
Nelson, a California Native American, is training to be a wildland firefighter with the goal of using “good fire” as a tool to reduce risk and build ecosystem resilience against wildfires.
Alexii Sigona on supporting his tribe as an academic
Sigona, a member of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and a third-year ESPM Ph.D. student, focuses his research on Indigenous natural resource management, specifically with the Amah Mutsun—a landless and non-federally recognized tribe.
Spotlight on Native American Heritage Month
During Native American Heritage Month this November, Rausser College highlights researchers whose work is related to the heritage of Native communities.
Berkeley’s new Indigenous Community Learning Garden takes root
This fall, students are earning field study credits through the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management to establish the garden, discover traditional Indigenous uses of native species, and more.
Alum Lara Cushing is leading the way for health equity
Cushing was recently appointed the Fielding Presidential Chair in Health Equity at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Inequality built into the grid
Grid constraints could limit equitable adoption of solar energy in California.
New faculty to focus on climate change and environmental justice
New scholars across the university will bolster its research addressing energy equity and climate impacts on communities of color, marginalized, and underrepresented groups.
Spotlight on campus cluster hires
Rausser faculty, in both the Climate Equity and Environmental Justice and the Native American and Indigenous Peoples cluster hires, are featured in Berkeley News.
National Science Foundation awards $10 million to alliance of Native American institutions
With the funding, researchers at Berkeley and the University of Arizona aim to increase Indigenous participation in STEM education.
Transforming the Campus Foodscape Through Participatory Mapping
A publication by professor Alastair Iles and graduate student Rosalie Fanshel covers the UC Berkeley Foodscape Mapping Project, which uses campus as a living lab for participatory, justice-centered food systems education.