Environmental Studies
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How driverless cars could empower pedestrians
Several online publications, including The Atlantic’s “City Lab” blog, wrote about environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball’s journal article about pedestrians and self-driving cars. Others include Planet Citizen, the Register in the U.K. and the IEEE Spectrum.
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What we know about the people who clean the floors in Silicon Valley
The Washington Post “Wonk Blog" wrote about a report by environmental studies professor Chris Benner, executive director of the Everett Program, about the ethnic disparity between high-tech workers in Silicon Valley and the contract workers who staff corporate campuses as janitors, landscapers, food service workers, and shuttle bus drivers.
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UCSC’s Chris Benner: Lessons from Kansas City, Salt Lake City and Oklahoma City
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered a talk by environmental studies professor Chris Benner to the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce Women in Business luncheon.
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Daniel Press: To help stop global warming, curb short-lived pollutants
Environmental studies professor Daniel Press and Veerabhadran Ramanathan of UC San Diego co-wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times calling for restrictions on methane, carbon soot, ozone and hydrofluorocarbon coolants.
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The startling racial divide in pay for restaurant workers
A study co-authored by Chris Benner, professor of sociology and environmental studies, was the subject of numerous reports including NPR and the Oakland Tribune.
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Inside Silicon Valley on KLIV radio in San Jose
Professor Chris Benner, environmental studies and sociology, was interviewed on KLIV radio show "Inside Silicon Valley" about his new book “Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn From America’s Metro Areas.”
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Fog belt: Santa Cruz trees faring better than some in drought
Michael Loik, associate professor of environmental studies, was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article on how trees in the area are suffering from the drought.
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The cul-de-sac is dying
Philadelphia Magazine wrote about environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball’s study on the rise and fall of urban sprawl.
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U.S sprawl peaked in 1994 and has been declining ever since
CityLab, a blog on The Atlantic.com that follows urban issues, wrote about a paper by environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball on the rise and fall of urban sprawl. The Associated Press also wrote about the study; its report appeared in the New York Times and other outlets. Pacific Standard magazine reported on the findings as…
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UC Santa Cruz Carbon Fund jump starts climate action projects
The Santa Cruz Sentinel quoted environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball in an article about the student-funded carbon fund and how its proceeds are used to create climate action projects. Ball is the advisor to the fund.
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UCSC art and science researchers partner to save Joshua tree
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News ran a story about a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz art research associate Geoffrey Thomas and environmental studies graduate studenti Juniper Harrower, focusing on their study of the Joshua tree, a desert plant in peril.
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Is There a Future for Wilderness?
Scientific American quoted Michael Soulé, professor emeritus of environmental studies, in a column ruminating on the notion of wilderness in the United States.