What Can I Do About Climate Change? Content

Understanding Climate Change on Tribal Allotment Lands

Malia Reiss — June 24, 2024 - 10:37am

A ��ϲʿ��ͼ project is working to help Tribal nations build climate resilience on Indian allotment lands, with funding from a California Climate Action grant.

Using Waste Heat to Decarbonize Food Processing

Malia Reiss — June 12, 2024 - 1:46pm

��ϲʿ��ͼ scientists are working to extract wasted heat from appliances and industrial emissions to help decarbonize food processing systems.

Diversity Blooms Within The Queer Flower Bed

Malia Reiss — May 28, 2024 - 3:48pm

Lavender reaches toward the sky. Carnations and pansies wave slightly in the breeze. Roses swell with the sun.

Diversity blooms within The Queer Bed, a floral testament to beauty, love, and empowerment within the queer community.

Fighting Climate Change with Bee-utiful Pollinator Gardens

Malia Reiss — May 09, 2024 - 1:44pm

From daisies and lavender to sunflowers and orange blossoms, flower gardens not only result in beautiful table centerpieces, bragging rights and a joyful hobby. They can also be hugely beneficial to local pollinators and, by close extension, food security and biodiversity.

Creative Writing a Gateway to Creative Climate Solutions

Malia Reiss — May 06, 2024 - 12:27pm

Creative storytelling and art can help the world process the changing climate. Collaborations between artists and scientists can give rise to new, innovative solutions.

A Winemaking Byproduct Can Reduce Dairy Cattle Emissions

Malia Reiss — April 29, 2024 - 3:11pm

��ϲʿ��ͼ researchers are feeding grape pomace, a byproduct of winemaking, to dairy cattle to reduce methane emissions.

7 Inspiring Climate Change Solutions

Katherine E Kerlin — April 22, 2024 - 9:06am

Plastic made from cheese whey? Growing food with pistachio shells? Wildfire-proof housing? Seven inspiring ��ϲʿ��ͼ research projects seek climate solutions for California and beyond.

Climate Poetry in Wooly Motion

Katherine E Kerlin — April 16, 2024 - 12:40pm

In what organizers call “a creative process akin to poetry magnets, but with a wooly twist,” the ��ϲʿ��ͼ Sheepmowers team is joining forces with the Big Shift campus construction project to create “Sheep Shift Climate Poetry” on April 24 to 26.

Campus and community members are invited to submit climate-change inspired words today through April 21.

Avian Influenza Status Update

Malia Reiss — April 16, 2024 - 10:42am

An interactive poultry map and on-the-ground monitoring help ��ϲʿ��ͼ scientists track the unprecedented expansion of avian flu among wildlife, poultry and other species.

Capturing Carbon From Power Plants and the Atmosphere

Malia Reiss — April 11, 2024 - 12:14pm

The realities of climate change are around us — replete with the sight of melting glaciers and raging wildfires. Scientists have long documented that greenhouse gas emissions are the most significant drivers of global warming and climate change.