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Sustainable Pacific Rim Cities promotes equitable, environmental, institutional, and economic sustainability; facilitates sustainable knowledge-sharing; supports existing sustainability concepts and projects; and develops new sustainable theories, methods, and practices between and within the Pacific Rim Cities.
 New Project: Ciclovia and Night Market in the City of Oakland (CNMP)
Upcoming Events
Transform's 12th Annual Summit
Date and start time: May 16, 2009, 9:00 am
Location: Laney College 900 Fallon Street, Oakland, CA
The Focus of This Year's Summit
This year, the Summit will focus on the critical role of transportation and land use in the health of our economy, pocketbooks, and planet - and highlight solutions that can help on all three fronts. Between the devastated stock market, unemployment rates, and impending climate doom, it's a wonder any of us get out of bed in the morning. But we do - and it's because we sense that all three of these challenges can be addressed by the very things we're working for: world-class public transportation and walkable communities in the Bay Area and beyond.
***US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC)--Scaling Up: From Green Buildings to Green Cities in the US and China
Friday, May 1, 2009 9 am-5 pm
PG&E Auditorium, San Francisco 77 Beale St. (between Market and Mission) San Francisco, CA
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***US-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC)--Smart Grid Seminar Series:
April 29 (Wednesday), 6:00PM – 9:00PM
No.1: Introduction to Smart Grid
The US-China Green Energy Council’s Smart Grid Steering Committee is pleased to announce its Smart Grid Seminar Series. What is “Smart Grid”? The smart Grid is the platform for integrating renewable energy generation (solar, wind, etc.), electric cars, smart meters, demand response, and many more technologies into the electric utility system. It is the key to energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In recognition of the importance of Smart Grid, the United States Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, has placed Smart Grid at the top of the Department of Energy’s priorities. China has also recognized the importance of Smart Grid. China’s more unified system for regulating energy perhaps renders China a more favorable testing ground for Smart Grid – one of the many questions the Smart Grid Seminar Series will endeavor to answer. The UCGEC Seminar Series will build on the recent success of the two Smart Grid panels from the UCGEC’s 2008 Beijing Conference. The Smart Grid Seminar Series will utilize the collective talents of many Smart Grid experts, including UCGEC President Bob Larson (former IEEE President), to explain what “Smart Grid” means, the benefits to be derived, and the challenges facing its implementation. The UCGEC Smart Grid Seminar Series will differ from other similar seminars in that the UCGEC Seminars will be result-oriented, data-driven and based on industry and business expertise. The first seminar will provide an introductory overview of Smart Grid. Subsequent seminars will address the different perspectives of technical, business, and investment issues and opportunities surrounding Smart Grid.
Conference Room Terrace 2D
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
950 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA
***April 20: Maximizing Your Input on Local Green Space
Monday, April 20, 7-9 PM
Berkeley Partners for Parks Earthweek Symposium:
Citizens and Our Local Green Spaces:
Maximizing Your Input
Join Sue Ferrera, Berkeley Parks Supervisor, and experienced leaders in a conversation on how to start a project, work with government, get funding, and attract volunteers. Find out specifics on the upcoming UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Community Partnership Grants! Tell your friends! Put it on your calendar!
West Berkeley Senior Center, 1900 Sixth St. (at Hearst).
***The Conservation of Open Space in the San Francisco Bay Area
Monday April 6 at 7:30 PM
UC Berkeley Professor of Geography Richard Walker, author of The Country in the City, will speak about the conservation of open space in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Hillside Club,
2286 Cedar St at Arch. Free. Wheelchair accessible. Information: 843-8724.
***April 6: How to Bring Solar Energy to Seven Billion People
In the City of Berkeley, the only way solar energy can be cost-effective is if the local government provides generous subsidies. That’s true just about everywhere in the world. But what if there were a photovoltaic technology that was so cheap and so easy to install that even the poorest and most remote villages of the world could gain access to electricity? In this presentation, learn about discoveries of new materials that can make solar energy a reality for billions.
Cyrus Wadia, Ph.D., senior research associate Berkeley Lab (LBNL), is a pioneer in bringing a multidisciplinary approach to solving the complicated issue of renewable energy. Join him in a lively discussion of the promise—and the pitfalls—of solar energy.
Monday, 04/06/09
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Berkeley Lab’s Friends of Science
2025 Addison Street
Berkeley Repertory Theater
Berkeley, CA USA 94704
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