Associate Professor Isha Ray's recent TedxBerkeley talk focused on how access to toilets can have profound implications for achieving gender equality worldwide.
The Secret Life of a Raindrop
Explore the Earth’s “critical zone” – where rock meets life. And discover how top climate researchers are exploring the secrets within a raindrop in order to better understand how the availability of water resources changes as a result of human activities.
Claire Kremen discusses pollinators on KQED's Forum
ESPM Professor Claire Kremen is one of three panelists on KQED's Forum program addressing the decline in bee populations and steps being taken to mitigate the problem.
Back to the future: Cal and National Parks start second century of science
A conference initiating the science emphasis of the National Park Service (NPS) centennial takes place March 25-27 on the Berkeley campus, exactly a century after an historic conference at Cal paved the way for the 1916 birth of NPS.
America's Two Best Ideas—Public Education and Public Lands
A conversation with U.S. Secretary of the Interior The Honorable Sally Jewell, President of the University of California Janet Napolitano, Historian and Author Douglas Brinkley, and Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley Nicholas B. Dirks
The World Until Yesterday
Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and UCLA professor of geography Jared Diamond discussed his most recent book about how traditional peoples differ from members of modern industrial societies in their reactions to danger.
What's Next for the Food Movement?
A conversation with Kathleen Merrigan, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture under President Obama, and Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism, UC Berkeley. Emmy award-winning reporter Linda Schacht, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, moderated this event.
The Quest for Sustainable Seas
Sylvia Earle, TIME magazine's first Hero of the Planet, taught how actions the we take in the next ten years to support the ocean will matter more than what we do in the next one hundred years.
California Forever: The Future of Our State Parks
A special screening of "California Forever: Parks for the Future," part two of a PBS program that takes us on a journey through California's magnificent state parks and presents the challenges they face. Then, filmmakers and experts shared how we can manage and steward the state's natural and cultural resources for future generations.