ARE professor David Sunding is featured in this Orange County Register on the economic costs of designating critical wildlife habitats. Sunding notes in his research that the "economic impacts of critical habitat designations are borne disproportionately by consumers, particularly those on the lowest end of the housing affordability spectrum."
Food & Nutrition | June 24, 2016
NST alum Lauren Au (B.S. '07) is profiled in Food & Nutrition Magazine's Nutrition Heroes series for her work in preventing childhood obesity through improving federal nutrition initiatives. Au is currently a researcher with the UC Nutrition Policy Institute.
KQED News | June 24, 2016
ERG alum Zoe Chafe (M.S. '10, Ph.D. '16) is highlighted in this KQED News article on her recently released report on the health impacts and safety risks of coal transport though the Oakland shipping terminals. The study was commissioned by Oakland councilman and CNR alum Dan Kalb (B.S. '82).
UC Newsrooom | June 23, 2016
ARE Ph.D. candidate Gavin McCormick is featured in this UC Newsroom article on climate change entrepreneurship. McCormick, who is currently on leave from his Ph.D. program, co-founded WattTime, a software tool that allows internet-connected devices to selectively draw poewr when the local grid has surplus clean power.
NY Times | June 23, 2016
ERG professor Dan Kammen is quoted in this New York Times article on Tesla's potential acquistion of SolarCity, which would trasform Tesla to be the world's only vertically integrated energy company. Kammen comments that this "is an effort to build the Apple of clean energy."