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Workshops, Meetings, and Conferences

This page contains summary information on meetings, workshops, and conferences, including minutes and some photos.

Read more details and access more slides at the BEST Lab Seminar page.

Presentations and Meeting Minutes:

8/13: Updates and work to be done.

8/11: Kashia youth visit.

8/4: Field trip to Moscone Center solar array in San Francisco.

7/30: Updates on work into Pareto optimality and more.

7/28: 10-12pm, 4th Floor (East side) Sutardja Dai Hall Opinion Space: Using Dimensionality Reduction to Visualize Public Opinion and Crowdsource Insights. Ken Goldberg, BCNM, IEOR, EECS, School of Information

7/23 Friday Meeting: Updates on preliminary micro-hydro system designs, results for overall site baseline designs, and some solar case studies.

7/21: 10-12pm, 4th Floor (East side) Sutardja Dai Hall. Sustainable
Product Development Initiatives in the Footwear Industry based on the
Cradle to Cradle concept. Jocelise Jacques, Berkeley Energy and
Sustainable Technologies (BEST) Design Lab.

7/21: 10:00 am, 4th Floor (East side) Sutardja Dai Hall: Sustainable Product Development Initiatives in the Footwear Industry based on the Cradle to Cradle Concept. Jocelise Jacques, Berkeley Energy and Sustainable Technologies (BEST) Lab.

7/16 Status Updates: Presentation on results of HOMER models for Ukiah reservation

Ryan's Presentation on Needs of Pinoleville-Pomo Nation

7/14: Laura Schewel, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley: "Smart Transportation: Mobile Information Systems for Transporation Sustainability", followed by Mark Mizrahl, EnLink, "Using the Power of the Earth to Heat and Cool"

7/13: Climate Change
Workshop-Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: with I-House Alumna Debra
Berliner

7/23-7/24: Big Time at Pinoleville-Pomo nation in Ukiah, California. Members of Tribes from around Northern California will be dancing and selling items.

7-13 Seminar (12:00 noon - 1:00 PM): "Balancing the Energy & Climate Budget: Personally, Nationally, Globally", Saul Griffith, Inventor, SQUID Labs, and President and Chief Scientist, Makani Power. Building 50 Auditorium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory http://eetd.lbl.gov/dls/lecture-07-13-10-griffith.html

7-12 Commonwealth Club: Shai Agassi, CEO of Better Place, INFORUM and Climate One at The Commonwealth Club. 6 p.m. check-in, 6:45 p.m. program, 8 p.m. reception/celebration. More detail at: http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1&shcode=1893

7-9 Meeting: Discussions of modeling work done in water conservation, energy planning, and EV business planning.

7-2 Meeting: This contains status updates, including some key information points, on the team's progress.

6-30 Workshop on EIO-LCA: Contains slides used in this workshop

6-25 Meeting: Contains background data from teams, including specifics on the site information.

6-23 Presentation: Chris Jones's Talk on the Cool Climate Calculator

These files contain the needs from the meeting in April 2010 with Tribes at the RTOC at EPA Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco.