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This Halloween, show off your commitment to energy efficiency and try carving an energy-related Jack O' Lantern using these fun patterns! Please like the UC Berkeley Office of Sustainability & Energy page for more energy news and sustainability updates.

"Energize" Your Neighborhood with Energy-Themed Pumpkins "Energize" Your Neighborhood with Energy-Themed Pumpkins

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to inventors of blue light-emitting diodes; check out the full story! Please like the UC Berkeley Office of Sustainability & Energy page for more energy news and sustainability updates.

Nobel prize in physics goes to inventors of blue light-emitting diodes Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win prize for energy-efficient and environment-friendly blue LEDs

Could walking power your smartphone? Check out this story about a teen who has invented a physio-electric generator that can fit into an ordinary shoe.
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Teen Develops Amazing Gadget to Harness Energy From an Everyday Motion Thanks to the creativity of a 15-year-old high school student, taking a "power walk" could soon take on a much more literal meaning. Angelo Casimiro, a young Filipino inventor, created an insole physio-electric generator that can fit into an ordinary shoe and actually charge a smartphone. ...

A new study shows that tackling climate change makes sense economically. Fantastic!
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Fighting Climate Change Makes Economic Sense, Study Finds By Alister Doyle and William Schomberg OSLO/LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Investments to help fight climate change can also spur economic growth, rather than slow it as widely feared, but time is running short for a trillion-dollar sh...

A town in Poland gets 100% of its electricity from renewable sources! Check out the full story.
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Polish Town Gets 100% Renewable Electricity The Polish town of Kisielice has received the European Commission’s ManagEnergy Award 2014 for its clean energy leadership. It is 100% powered by renewable energy (wind and biomass, to be specific). The prize is to award outstanding local and regional sustainable energy projects. Kisielice's submiss…

Rakafuki Friends is a brilliant idea using clever design to get people to think differently about energy efficiency. And it started right here in Berkeley at Rosa Parks Elementary!

Rakafuki Friends The Rakafuki Friends project is an experiment in using fun design to promote energy efficiency - and help support local schools

May is Bike Month and tomorrow is Bike to Work Day! Ride your bike on in to the Sproul Plaza Energizer station to grab some goodies and celebrate the joy of biking.

Bike to Work Day - May 8, 2014 | Sustainability Once again Bike East Bay will be hosting hundreds of Energizer Stations throughout the East Bay, distributing goodie bags and celebrating the joy of biking. Last year over 15,000 cyclists participated throughout Bike to Work Day. We had a record number of children bike to school and mayors leading b…

Focus on Urban Energy: The UIC Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy (SISE) August 6-20. Applications accepted through July 1.

UIC Summer Institute on Sustainable Energy

So... Earth Week was pretty awesome, let's all keep up those good habits! Here are a few good ideas :D

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Attention Unit 2 Residents!!!

When: Earth Hour @ 8:30pm to 9:30pm in Unit 2 on Earth Day (April 22, 2014)

What: Turn off all non essential lights (room lights) and appliances (unplug laptop charger or turn off TVs & monitors) for one hour tonight.

National Wildlife Federation’s Emerging Leader Fellowship Program is currently accepting applications for 2014 class of Emerging Leader Fellows. Don’t delay! Applications Due April 30th

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2014 Resources Roundtable: California in Drought, April 18 | Sustainability April 3, 2014Keynote Address by David SedlakMalozemoff Professor in Mineral Engineering at UC Berkeley, Co-director of Berkeley Water Center, and Director of Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE) and author of Water 4.0.UC Berkeley - The Department of Water Resources - Southern…