UC Davis Students Build Solar Homes for Farmworkers
By Gulstan Dart The UC Davis Solar Decathlon Team is building a solar-powered home geared toward the needs of farm workers and low-income communities. Students are building the Aggie Sol home for a competition put on by the US Department of Energy. The house utilizes a sprinkler system to shoot water into the sky from […]
Why the World’s Appetite for Oil Will Peak Soon – Amy Myers Jaffe Featured in Wall Street Journal
By Amy Myers Jaffe The conventional wisdom about steadily rising demand is wrong. Within two decades, global oil use will start to fall. When it comes to oil demand, the conventional wisdom is clear: Population growth and a rising global middle class guarantee that demand—and prices—will rise over the coming decades. It is a story […]
UC Davis Center for Water-Energy Efficiency Report “A Thirst for Power” cited in New York Times article
By Felicity Barringer, Energy & Environment, The New York Times Troubling Interdependency of Water and Power Coiled throughout the American economy, energy and water are forever linked, an economic version of DNA’s double helix. Continuing efforts to rethink the use of the two resources are underway at the University of California, Davis’s Center for Water-Energy […]
Former CA Assemblymember Nancy Skinner Joins UC Davis as Senior Policy Fellow on Energy and Transportation Policy
Former California state legislator Nancy Skinner is bringing her expertise on energy and climate policy to UC Davis, working with energy, transportation, and policy centers in West Village. The three-term state assemblymember will serve as a senior policy fellow for the UC energy and transportation programs, including the Energy Efficiency Center, Institute of Transportation Studies, […]
How to get Californians to Use Less Water — Without Forcing them to
By Chris Mooney, Energy and Environment, The Washington Post The water situation in California is getting downright scary. Last week, the Department of Water Resources found “no snow whatsoever” in its Sierra Nevada snowpack survey and Gov. Jerry Brown declared mandatory reductions in water usage in the state. In particular, the more than 400 agencies […]
UC Davis Students Illuminate Future Careers at CLTC Competition
By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis Strategic Communications environmental writer In most classes, coursework involves sitting in front of a computer. But students in professor Michael Siminovitch’s “Design with Light” class are hard at play. They’re using their hands and their imaginations to devise what could become the next big thing in lighting. It’s just a […]
California House of the Future Takes Green to a Higher Level
Researchers are studying family living in an uber sustainable home that leaves no carbon footprint. Honda Motor Company has established this house of the future in Davis, Calif., to study how humans can live in a nearly sustainable environment. Susan O’Hara and her husband Stuart Bennett, along with their daughters Aisling and Sabha Bennett, both […]
Hurricanes and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from Bottled Water Scanner Data
Jay Shimshack from Tulane December 10, 2014
Strategic Policy Choice and State Level Regulation: The EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Stephen Holland from UNC Greensboro December 3, 2014
Drilling Like There’s No Tomorrow: Bankruptcy, Insurance, and Environmental Risk
Judd Boomhower from UC Berkeley November 19, 2014
