Life@ERG
Student Life
We’re Together Again @ ERG!
By:
Diana Dombrowski
November 6, 2021
Development
Research Reports
Slums, Informal Settlements, or Deprived Areas: a Conceptual and Technical Challenge for Remote Sensing
By:
Jessica Kersey
January 15, 2021
Student Life
Quarantine Diaries Part 4 – Welcome New ERGies!
By:
Life@ERG Editors
November 9, 2020
Welcome to Life@ERG!
“Indulge your passion for science… but let your science be human, and such as may have a direct reference to action and society.” – David Hume
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Front Page Feature
Student Life
BLERG! Application FAQs for prospective students
By
Life@ERG Editors
Sep 26, 2019
This blog post, written by a group of ERG students, contains advice that we often give to prospective ERG applicants and that we wish we’d heard when we applied for graduate school.
Dispatches from the Field
Snapshots from Rwanda: Financing Green Growth
By
Esther Shears
Oct 22, 2018
Living the Change on the Last Frontier: Nome, Alaska
By
Laney Siegner
Sep 11, 2018
Thoughts from 金盆村: the Golden Basin Village
By
Kelly Jiang
Jul 12, 2018
Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity at ERG
Envisioning A Police-Free Campus: SACEI’s Letter to the UC Administration Demanding the Defunding of UCPD
By
Reem Rayef
Sep 21, 2020
What Does Smog Have to Do with Diversity? An Analogy
By
Christian G. Miller
Nov 16, 2018
Diversity, Representation, and Environmentalism
By
Salma Elmallah
Sep 28, 2018
Research Reports
Slums, Informal Settlements, or Deprived Areas: a Conceptual and Technical Challenge for Remote Sensing
By
Jessica Kersey
Jan 15, 2021
Redefining data sharing for SDG 7 and energy access
By
Isa Ferrall, Jonathan Lee and Jordan Freitas
Aug 27, 2019
Spread of self-driving cars could cause more pollution – unless the electric grid transforms radically
By
Peter Fox-Penner, Jennifer Hatch and Will Gorman
Nov 2, 2018
Latest Posts by Category
Food & Agriculture
Snapshots from Rwanda: Financing Green Growth
By
Esther Shears
To CSA or not to CSA? That is not the question!
By
Isa Ferrall and Laney Siegner
Coffee, Chocolate, & Passion Fruit: A Food-Focused Journey in the Galapagos
By
Laney Siegner
Water & Sanitation
Growing with graywater: How to build a simple graywater system in your own backyard
By
Britt Shaw
The drought from a farmer’s perspective
By
Kripa Jagannathan
What is Sanitation?
By
Sharada Prasad
Energy
Redefining data sharing for SDG 7 and energy access
By
Isa Ferrall, Jonathan Lee and Jordan Freitas
Cleantech to Market: Why let the MBAs have all the fun?
By
Sara Mulhauser
Thoughts from 金盆村: the Golden Basin Village
By
Kelly Jiang
Climate
Living the Change on the Last Frontier: Nome, Alaska
By
Laney Siegner
Notes from the Arctic: Frozen Adventures at the Frontier
By
Gordon Bauer
When Climate Change Comes Home
By
Michelle Levinson
Environmental Justice
What Does Smog Have to Do with Diversity? An Analogy
By
Christian G. Miller
Diversity, Representation, and Environmentalism
By
Salma Elmallah
Environmental Policy: Looking Past our Green-Colored Glasses
By
Andrea Mercado
Development
Slums, Informal Settlements, or Deprived Areas: a Conceptual and Technical Challenge for Remote Sensing
By
Jessica Kersey
Redefining data sharing for SDG 7 and energy access
By
Isa Ferrall, Jonathan Lee and Jordan Freitas
Snapshots from Rwanda: Financing Green Growth
By
Esther Shears
Transportation
Spread of self-driving cars could cause more pollution – unless the electric grid transforms radically
By
Peter Fox-Penner, Jennifer Hatch and Will Gorman
Ride-hailing caps don’t address the root causes of urban congestion
By
Gordon Bauer
Inspiration in a Parking Lot
By
Rachel Golden
Money & Politics
Voting with Your Investment Dollars
By
Michelle Levinson
Divesting from Fossil Fuels, Part 2: Retirement Accounts and Mutual Funds
By
Nick Depsky
Divesting from Fossil Fuels, Part 1: Personal Banking
By
Nick Depsky