Ryan Shelby: Sustainability Designs and Innovations

CARES got two news articles posted on the Mechanical Engineering Department's homepage!!!!

The articles talk about our win at the 2009 Bears Breaking Boundaries (BBB) and the recent Forefront publication of our work with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation.

Here is a link to the BBB and CITRIS competitions.

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Out of over 400 submissions at the Bears Breaking Boundaries competition, the Pinoleville Pomo Nation project won honorable mention in the Curricular Innovations category and CARES (Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability) was a finalist in the Information Technology category.

We did not win the main prizes, but we made good contacts!!

See everyone again next year at BBB.

The title says it all!!   The poster session will take place in the atrium of the new CITRIS headquarters building at UC Berkeley.

Here is the link again: http://www.citris-uc.org/events/Big-Ideas-poster2009

Come on out and support CARES!

I got more good news: 

The Greenbuild 2009 Program Committee informed me today that proposal I wrote with the EPA and PPN: Reviving the Oldest Approach to Sustainable Design: How cultural values and a sense of place lead to green building designs has been accepted.

There were 1300 submitted and our proposal was one of the 112 that got in. 

The proposal talks about the co-design process CARES used to work with the PPN to co-design culturally inspired, sustainable housing.

I write so many of things things that I completely forgot about this one. :)

I just found out today that CARES will also receive an Honorable Mention Award for Bears Breaking Boundaries 2009 - Curricular Innovation contest.

I submitted a CARES grant that would establish a community service learning project between UC Berkeley and the Pinoleville Pomo Nation to work on renewable energy technologies.

Competition was rather stiff, but the email I got says "We hope that we can support your project if you continue to pursue it in the coming year. Please also consider re-submitting it to Bears Breaking Boundaries next year."

My answer: You darn skippy CARES will be entering again next year!!

CARES still might win the CITRIS Big Ideas grant though.  I will let you know happens next Wednesday after I present to the judges.

I have more good news about CARES.

A few weeks ago, I submitted a white paper to the Bears Breaking Boundaries competition to design  information technology to improve the sustainability of communities.  

This competition is sponsored by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).

Today, I found out that CARES is a finalist for the CITRIS IT in the service of society competition!

The final round of the competition will be on April 29, 2009 from 3 - 5 pm at the Jean & E. Floyd Kvamme Atrium.

Please click here to read the official announcement.

Please come on out and support CARES!!!