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Richter Chairs Energy Efficiency Study
Colloquium Monday: Biofuels and Agriculture
symmetry: Painting with the Flow
Roosevelt Robinson Passes Away
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Richter Chairs Energy Efficiency StudyBurton Richter made his name in high-energy physicshe won the Nobel Prize for discovering a particle made up of a new kind of quark, and directed SLAC for 15 years. For the past decade, he's turned his formidable attention to energy issues of a different, but no less important, nature. Richter is now chairing a new study group on energy efficiency formed by the American Physical Society (APS). The group's goal is to identify research efforts and policy changes that will reduce carbon emissions linked to global warming and increase energy security. Members of the group are gathering at SLAC today and tomorrow (October 29 through 30) to kick off their work, which will focus on energy efficiency in buildings and transportation. Those two areas account for 70 percent of U.S. carbon emissions. "First on everyone's list, whether you're concerned about global warming or energy supply security, should be conservation and efficiency," Richter said. Read more... |
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Biofuels and Agriculture
In this afternoon's colloquium, Rosamond Lee Naylor, the Wrigley Senior Fellow in Environmental Science and Policy at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment, will present The Ripple Effects of Biofuels on Global Food Security and the Environment. Naylor will address the rapid rise in crop-based biofuels production in the U.S. and other countries and its implications for global food security and the environment. In particular, she will explore the linkages between biofuels demand, crop prices and the ability of poor households to purchase staple food commodities. She will also examine the effects of biofuels development on the livestock sector and on the environment through land expansion and intensification. Finally, she will discuss some key policies that are relevant for future growth in biofuels in the U.S. and abroad. The colloquium will take place at 4:15 p.m. today in Panofsky Auditorium. All are invited to attend. symmetry:
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