Golden Gate Bridge gets Birthday Candles with Solar Beacon
In celebration of the 75th birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, space scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, are installing an art project called Solar Beacon - topping the bridge towers with glittering solar "candles" (mirrors), called heliostats. Space scientist John Vallerga describes the Solar Beacon project and how the public can experience it. Video by Roxanne Makasdjian. Full story: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/25/artist-and-space-scientists-celebrate-golden-gate-bridge-anniversary-with-solar-bridge/
November 19, 2008
A discussion of issues related to small hydro development; There is a tremendous amount of oil trapped in Canadian tar sands and U.S. oil shale. There have also been repeated efforts to promote the development of a market for synthetic gas, derived from coal. For all three, economic, environmental, land-use, and energy payback issues dominate the concerns. State and federal law play a key role, as well; Many leaders talk about a hydrogen future one in which hydrogen fuel cells provide pollution-free electric power. Hydrogen must be derived, rather than simply harvested. Its production is energy intensive and its broad distribution would require a massive pipeline and storage tank infrastructure. We will talk about where the technology stands and how government is trying to help it to advance.
Carol Edgarian is an author, editor, and publisher. Her novels include Three Stages of Amazement and Rise the Euphrates, both bestsellers. Edgarian is coeditor of the popular collection The Writer's Life: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame, with excerpts drawn from great writers' diaries. In 2003, Edgarian and her husband Tom Jenks, founded the non-profit Narrative Magazine, and Narrative in the Schools, a program to encourage reading and writing in schools across America.
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Science for Parks, Parks for Science: The Next Century
A conversation led by Michael Krasny, KQED Forum host
Janet Napolitano, UC President
Sally Jewell, U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Douglas Brinkley, historian, author of Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt
Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor, UC Berkeley
At the ninth annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting, hosted at UC Berkeley, April 1-3, 2016, undergraduate and graduate students from around the world gathered to discuss their projects addressing challenges in Education Environment and Climate Change, Peace and Human Rights, Poverty Alleviation, and Public Health.
A parade of luminaries took part in Clinton Global Initiative University this weekend — from Bill and Chelsea Clinton and U.S. Rep. John Lewis to Conan O’Brien and Cal football legend Marshawn Lynch. But the event was all about the students, more than 1,200 of whom assembled at UC Berkeley for three days of inspiration, cooperation and “commitment to action.”
“Change begins one person, one place, one community at a time,” the former president told students on Sunday, a “day of action” in which they fanned out from Oakland to work alongside local community groups to help plant trees, organize libraries and paint murals. “You are demonstrating to the schoolchildren who will see your work that they matter.”
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Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally
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