Mark your calendars for TC Sessions: Climate 2022! This year’s conference includes a focus on opportunities to combat climate change and pollution using market forces.
Mark your calendars for ACEEE’s 2022 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. The theme for this year’s event is “Climate Solutions: Efficiency, Equity, and Decarbonization.”
The Brisbane Library by Siegel & Strain Architects (EcoBlock Design/Construction team) is officially in the polls for the AIA San Francisco People’s Choice Design Awards. Cast your vote by Friday, April 15 at 5 pm PT.
EcoBlock PI and Energy team co-lead Dr. Alexandra “Sascha” von Meier participated in a California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) expert briefing on the role of community microgrids in California.
EcoBlock PI and Energy team co-lead Dr. Alexandra “Sascha” von Meier shares how the effects of climate change are affecting the aging power grid.
The new ICC report boils down to yet another dire scientific warning. Greenhouse gas emissions need to peak by 2025 to limit global warming close to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), as targeted by the Paris Agreement, the report says.
Abstract submissions for the 2022 Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC) Conference are now open through April 15.
EcoBlock Project Manager Dr. Therese Peffer recently participated in a Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies symposium from March 24–26, 2022. Titled Bringing Digitalization Home: How Can Technology Address Housing Challenges?, the three-day event focused on digitalization and how it is spurring a fundamental change in the way housing is produced, marketed, sold, financed, managed, and lived in.
The Working Group II contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report summarizes the latest scientific research on climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerabilities. The new IPCC Working Group II report paints an alarming picture of rapidly growing risks currently being felt around the world, including widespread damages to human and ecological health.
The 2022 Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC) Conference call for abstracts is now open! This year’s theme is “Engaging all Voices.”