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College of Environmental Design

Who We Are

As the newest addition to the BERC network, the College of Environmental Design (CED) is connecting through it's energy and environmental student group, SCLUB (or, Design Students for a Sustainable Future).  We work across campus and in the community on initiatives to reduce energy use in buildings, and to promote sustainability in the curriculum of the CED.

What We Do

We hold regular meetings as SCLUB, to organize events within the CED, and to share experiences working on campus energy initiatives.  We also post signage, measure Wurster's energy consumption, maintain materials reuse stations in design studios, and keep a number of other ongoing support activities going, to continually support the environmental efforts of our college.

Meet Your Liaison

Lindsay Baker (Architecture PhD student) is the BERC liaison and contact for SCLUB.  Contact her to get involved.

Email Group

SCLUB has a listserv, which you join by sending an email to Lindsay, requesting to be added.

BERC 2nd Annual Lecture: Van Jones and the Green Collar Economy

Wednesday, February 11th
Bancroft Hotel (2680 Bancroft Way, near College Ave)
6:00 Doors open & book sales
6:15 Lecture & discussion
Book signing to follow  

Event Co-sponsors:
Don Vial Center on Employment and the Green Economy
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
The Stiefel Family Foundation

As climate chaos and soaring fuel costs batter the U.S. economy, Van Jones brings a unique perspective to the color green. He argues that a green economy that rescues the polar bears can also rescue the U.S. economy -- putting America back to work; driving down energy and food prices; giving green collar jobs and new chances to underserved youth; and forever ending the need for oil wars and resource wars.

RSVP not required

View the full event listing in the BERC Calendar

The Jane Fonda Effect

Tue, 09/02/2008 - 08:06 — eurquiza

It's safe, it's big, it's base load and it's competitive with fossil fuels. Might there be an atomic solution to global warming?

Since nuclear power can economically provide base-load, carbon free electricity to a plug-in hybrid, it could do more than any other alternative energy to create carbon free transportation fuel that simultaneously addresses America's foreign oil dependency. - Eugenio Urquiza "Keno"

The Jane Fonda Effect - New York Times By STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT - Published: September 16, 2007

(The short NYT article through the link above. A few excerpts follow.)

If you were asked to name the biggest global-warming villains of the past 30 years, here’s one name that probably wouldn’t spring to mind: Jane Fonda. But should it?

SEED Program

Mon, 06/09/2008 - 12:52 — webadmin