On Friday, September 17th 2010, I was able to work with members of the Pinoleville Pomo Nation to install a 20 m (60 ft) anemometer to measure the wind speed for power generation. This work was fund by the Department of Energy and the Tribal Energy Program as apart of a renewable energy feasibility study grant the PPN received. I had a great time working with everyone and I look forward to getting other CARES student to help out in the microhydro and pyranometer meters as well. Please go here for the full set of images from that day.  The team after putting up the anemomter 2 Comments I was able to install the Black Cloud Air Quality Sensor at the Pinoleville Pomo Nation on Wednesday, July 21st 2010. The sensor records data on VOCs, CO2, Humidity, Vibration, Temperature, and Light. You can check out the real time data here: http://www.blackcloud.org/alice/zurichtest_v2/ SWEET!!! CARES won a $75K seed CITRIS grant to start a CARES center at Berkeley to codesign & build green it & energy systems for Native Nations. The center will be called Native American Community Assessment for Renewable Energy and Sustainability (Native CARES) and will include Native American partners such as the Pinoleville Pomo Nation, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Sandia National Laboratories. Thanks to everyone that's supporting our efforts to helping communities improve their overall level of sustainability and meet their triple bottom line requirements! CARES has seen much success since we won the E Team grant in 2007 from NCIIA. I believe that this grant is a another key step in establishing CARES as a major force in the sustainability arena.  The 3rd Annual Gathering of the Pomo Nations for Higher Education will take place Friday, March 5th 2010 in Redwood Valley, CA. It is a chance for junior and high school students to meet college representatives and get to know a little more about the exciting challenges that await them in higher education. The conference will be located in the Consolidated Tribal Health Project, 6991 North State Street, Redwood Valley, CA 95470. If you need more information, please contact Angela James at 707-463-1454 or at her email address: angelajames2276@yahoo.com 2009 Greenbuild Conference & Expo in AZ 11/23/2009
This year, I spoke at the 2009 Greenbuild Conference in AZ on the panel "OR02: Reviving the Oldest Approach to Sustainable Design - How Cultural Values and a Sense of Place Leads to Green Building Designs" The panel included myself, David Edmunds from the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN), Michelle Baker from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Kimberly TallBear from UC Berkeley. During our panel we spoke on about the partnership amongst CARES, PPN, and UC Berkeley and how the utilization of Co-Design methodology lead to the creation of the culturally inspired housing design adopted by the PPN. Overall, Greenbuild was an outstanding success!!. We got an standing ovation at the end of our panel and we made good contacts with representatives form LEED and USGBC. Currently, we are planning for another panel and paper on the subject of LEED and Native American Nations for the summer as well. Until then, check out some other comments and blogs about our presentation here and here. The Pinoleville Pomo Nation will be having their 14th Annual Big Time Celebration July 17th - July 18th in Ukiah, CA. Greenbuild 2009 Program Now Live! 06/15/2009
 The 2009 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo’s program has been announced. CARES got two news articles posted on the Mechanical Engineering Department's homepage!!!! 
UC Berkeley's Forefront magazine released an article today that describes the work that the Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) is doing with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation.  I will be presenting at this conference in a few days. The full program can be found here. | AuthorI am just a Southern gentleman at UC Berkeley that wants to enable people to live better and be productive citizens.   ArchivesFebruary 2011 CategoriesAll | ||||||
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