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Investing in Energy Efficiency Pays Off

Nationally, the potential savings from energy conservation investments are astounding.

Industry and Business

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Money Versus Morals: Why Economic Rewards Trump Polite Messaging in Efficiency

New research looks at how moral suasion compares to monetary rewards.

Industry and Business

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How California Can Dramatically Streamline Interconnection of Distributed Energy

California is getting serious about distributed energy resources (DER), which include small utility-scale solar, bioenergy and wind…

Industry and Business

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UC Making Big Moves Toward Carbon Neutrality

The University of California quietly met an important milestone in 2014: It successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions to the same…

Graduate, Undergraduate

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2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming Skeptics

In the annals of climatology, 2014 surpassed 2010 as the warmest year.

Industry and Business

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UCSB Ranked #3 in Top Green Colleges and Universities

With an impressive history of environmental efforts and sustainability trendsetting, UCSB has now been rated third in the nation in a…

In the News

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UCSB’s Shuji Nakamura Receives the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize

UCSB materials professor and 2014 Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura has been awarded the Draper Prize for Engineering by the National…

Awards and Accolades

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Beautiful Wind Turbine Trees Generate Clean Energy in Cities

Designers and researchers have come up with see-through solar panels that can be used as windows in buildings, white solar panels that…

Industry and Business

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Playing Dumb on Climate Change

Why aren't more scientists emphatic about the risk of climate change? The answer can be found in a surprising place: the history of…

Research

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How California Could Supercharge the Distribution Grid

California is engaged in a major revision of the ways in which its utilities manage their distribution grid.

Industry and Business

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These Cheap, Invisible Solar Cells Can Be Spray-Painted On Anything

Researchers at the University of Toronto have figured out how to make the process of spray on solar cells both cheap and fast. Light-…

Research

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Newsletter: December 2014

Newsletter

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Passive Radiator Cools by Sending Heat Straight to Outer Space

By reflecting sunlight and transmitting heat through the Earth's atmosphere, Standford's passive radiator system can cool without any…

Research

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What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change

Today’s renewable energy technologies won’t save us. So what will?

Industry and Business

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Is a net-zero energy building really the right target?

Buildings must emit radically less CO2 during construction and occupation. This often leads to the assumption that we should be…

Industry and Business

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Cree Engineers a Cheaper LED Bulb by Losing the Heat Sink

LED maker Cree on Tuesday is introducing a new consumer bulb that does away with the metal heat sink seen on most LED bulbs.

Industry and Business