http://www.sierraclub.org/coolschools SIERRA magazine released its sixth annual ranking of the nation's "Coolest Schools," a salute to U.S. colleges that are helping solve climate problems and making significant efforts to operate sustainably. W...

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UC Davis is in the midst of shaping a clean-energy innovation hub in the Sacramento- San Francisco Bay Area. The campus has the first university-based energy-efficiency center in the U.S. that focuses on the transfer of technology to the marketpla...

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UC Davis' California Lighting Technology Center is a laboratory for the newest innovations in lighting and energy efficiency. In fact, this is the first campus in the nation to have all-adaptive, networked outdoor lighting. Read more about these ...

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Dan Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, and a team of national researchers have designed a framework for a national low carbon fuel standard. Sperling helped California become the first state in the nation to ad...

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100 families in Northern California are test-driving 10 Toyota Priuses that are plug-in vehicles. UC Davis is monitoring the families to see what they think of the latest green vehicle on the road. NewsWatch 2007

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NewsWatch 2007: Students at UC Davis see how their own living habits can affect the environment. At the end of the school year, truckloads of "stuff" were coming to an on-campus site twice a day for a week — everything you could imagine that stude...

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NewsWatch 2007: Design students at UC Davis are creating posters intended to raise awareness of the amount of waste generated in campus buildings that could have been recycled.

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• During the Jan. 31, 2008, Focus the Nation event at UC Davis, nearly 1,500 people flocked to the Idea Fair. In this video, reported and produced by technocultural studies senior Carlos Palacio, view the exhibits and listen to ideas from fair org...

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NewsWatch 2008: Bob Walden, who spent years as an executive chef in five-star restaurants, oversees the sous vide cooking process at UC Davis. It is designed to minimize waste and maximize taste by using airtight plastic bags placed in hot water.

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For nearly four decades, igloo-like fiberglass domes have been home to hundreds of UC Davis students. These alternative homes provides a place for eco-conscous students to make all their own decisions -- they eat together and do their own maintena...

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Scientists say that global warming will likely result in more frequent and widespread droughts. And if climate change alters rainfall patterns, researchers say agriculture must adapt.UC Davis plant scientists are developing is a genetically modifi...

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As millions of new alternative fuel cars hit the road, health officials need to know exactly how they will affect air pollution. Scientists from UC Davis and the University of Wisconsin, Madison are beginning a study that will give us answers. Ne...

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Energy-efficiency guru Art Rosenfeld is honored by his many acolytes -- leading figures in California government and industry -- during a dinner at UC Davis in Rosenfeld's honor. They tell stories of his many ideas that changed the field.

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NewsWatch 2008: A new breed of rancher wants to do a better job of protecting their land with environmentally friendly techniques, says UC Davis range scientist Mel George. These include grazing in ways that enhance endangered species and protecti...

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