There's little monetary incentive to conserve when someone else pays the bill. So UC Berkeley's new Energy Incentive Program aims to motivate people working and studying on campus to reduce electricity use. Part of Operational Excellence's energy program, the EIP is projected to save the campus a sizable chunk of change, as well as to shrink its carbon footprint.
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What was described a month ago as "the beginning of a long process of public engagement" has taken another key step, as 100 or so future neighbors of the Richmond Bay Campus got a closer look at just what scientists will be doing when the waterfront facility opens in 2017.
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Remember the Golden Fleece award for big wastes of taxpayer money? Now there's a new national prize, the Golden Goose, honoring scientists who received federal funding for seemingly arcane work that turned out to have revolutionary applications. And the first winner is Charles Townes, the Berkeley physicist who won a Nobel Prize for inventing the laser.
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