Ana M. Alvarez serves as the Deputy General Manager of the East Bay Regional Park District, the largest local park agency in the United States. Ana’s professional accomplishments demonstrate a strong acumen for proactive and meaningful civic engagement, community building based on public trust and sustainability planning based on science, which she believes are paramount for the vibrancy of healthy communities.
Holiday Greetings from the College of Natural Resources
Watch a video holiday message to the CNR community.
Van Jones delivers fall Albright Lecture
During his visit to Berkeley, the CNN political commentator and Dream Corps president discussed environmental justice and action.
Planet Vision
Dr. Foley, Executive Director of the California Academy of Sciences, will speak on why we need to build a shared, positive vision of the future to address our environmental challenges.
Can Nature Save Us? Stories from the Natural World
At a time when humanity’s demands on the natural world have never been greater, Dr. M. Sanjayan’s keynote address highlights nature’s essential role in creating a livable future for people everywhere.
Dan Kammen Featured in Climate Lab Video from UC, VOX
The fifth episode of the Climate Lab video series from University of California and Vox features comments from professor Dan Kammen of the Energy & Resources Group on developing technologies in nuclear energy.
*/Activism in Business
Rose Marcario, President and CEO of Patagonia, and Robert Strand discussed the role of progressive business leaders in the current era.
Drones help monitor health of giant sequoias
CNR researchers test drone-based research tools as a way to monitor the Sierra Nevada’s giant sequoias and predict how they will deal with climate change and drought.
Our Environmental Destiny
Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeepers, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and president-at-large of the Waterkeeper Alliance.
The caddisfly and its amazing underwater tape
With the help of UC Berkeley stream ecologist Patina Mendez, KQED Science’s Deep Look series zooms in on the caddisfly.
Video: Matthew Luskin on Tracking Tigers in the Rain Forest
PhD candidate and National Geographic grantee Matthew Luskin spent a year in the rain forest of Indonesia tracking critically endangered Sumatran tigers.
CNR students take top prizes in grad video contest
Videos created by graduate students Rebecca Brunner (ESPM) and Benjamin Krause (ARE) were chosen as winners in the Berkeley Graduate Division's 2016 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest.
Isha Ray on Gender Equality at TedXBerkeley
Associate Professor Isha Ray's recent TedxBerkeley talk focused on how access to toilets can have profound implications for achieving gender equality worldwide.
The Secret Life of a Raindrop
Explore the Earth’s “critical zone” – where rock meets life. And discover how top climate researchers are exploring the secrets within a raindrop in order to better understand how the availability of water resources changes as a result of human activities.
Claire Kremen discusses pollinators on KQED's Forum
ESPM Professor Claire Kremen is one of three panelists on KQED's Forum program addressing the decline in bee populations and steps being taken to mitigate the problem.
Back to the future: Cal and National Parks start second century of science
A conference initiating the science emphasis of the National Park Service (NPS) centennial takes place March 25-27 on the Berkeley campus, exactly a century after an historic conference at Cal paved the way for the 1916 birth of NPS.
America's Two Best Ideas—Public Education and Public Lands
A conversation with U.S. Secretary of the Interior The Honorable Sally Jewell, President of the University of California Janet Napolitano, Historian and Author Douglas Brinkley, and Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley Nicholas B. Dirks
The World Until Yesterday
Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and UCLA professor of geography Jared Diamond discussed his most recent book about how traditional peoples differ from members of modern industrial societies in their reactions to danger.
What's Next for the Food Movement?
A conversation with Kathleen Merrigan, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture under President Obama, and Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism, UC Berkeley. Emmy award-winning reporter Linda Schacht, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, moderated this event.
The Quest for Sustainable Seas
Sylvia Earle, TIME magazine's first Hero of the Planet, taught how actions the we take in the next ten years to support the ocean will matter more than what we do in the next one hundred years.