Energy policy and science play a leading role in global threats to peace and security, as well as in efforts to avert environmental disaster. The result is that threads of social and physical sciences are increasingly intertwined in the 21st century classroom. This workshop will consider ways the topic of energy can help students put science into the context of history, human rights, and development.
9:00 Introductions and coffee
9:15 Background Lecture and discussion
“The Big Story: Human History, Energy Regimes, and the Environment”
Edmund Burke III, History Department Professor and Director of the Center for World History, UCSC.
10:30 Panel on current research: What does the story look like now?
Case studies representing international collaboration on dynamics of cities and climate change and innovation in technologies for the poor.
Moderator: Javiera Barandiaran, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UCB.
- "All Roads Lead to the Hard Path: Energy, Climate Change, and 'Development' in Vietnam."
Jalel Sager, Energy Resources Group, UCB and founding director of the Vietnam Green Building Council
- “The Darfur Stoves Project: Energy Efficient Technology for the Bottom of the Pyramid.”
Andree Sosler, Executive Director of the Darfur Stoves Project
Kajye Booker, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UCB
12:00 Lunch and lesson review
- Hands On Energy: Help students learn how to calculate energy from food, sun, oil, and other sources into the same units, in order to see how energy is found everywhere.
1:00 Adjourn
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