News
- BEACON shows sustained carbon dioxide emissions reductions in the Bay, potentially linked to EV adoption (UCB, LA Times, NPR)
- BEACON at New Zealand schools: Climate science inspires students to drive down school-run carbon dioxide emissions here
- BEACON project capabilities for monitoring local emissions changes could help aid cities in reaching necessary emission goals Hundreds of U.S. Cities Adopted Climate Plans. Few Have Met The Goals, But It's Not Too Late.
- BEACON work highlighted by Artist-in-Residence Rosten Woo during Mutual Air project Kickoff and Listening Party
- BEACON takes First Place and the People's Choice Award in the "Climate Impacts" category of the first ever UC Carbon Slam.
- Grist.org details a day in the life of BEACON team member Alexis Shusterman in a recent article on air quality monitoring.
- BEACON is one of many projects featured in UC Berkeley's December 2014 Sustainability Report.
- The Bay Area's ABC7 News aired a two-year follow up tracking BEACON's continuing progress and future goals.
- Current.org is also spreading the news about the recently announced iSeeChange Climate Data Initiative partnership.
- BEACON is partnering with the iSeeChange citizen almanac as a recognized component of President Barack Obama's Climate Data Initiative--read the full story here and here.
- ClimateWire again cites BEACON in an overview of air quality sensing technologies.
- BEACON was included in a recent issue of the Association of Science and Technology Centers' Dimensions magazine.
- ClimateWire in Washington DC did a piece on the BEACON project.
- The University of California put out an official press release on the project here.
- BEACON was featured on ABC in the Bay Area in the segment Researchers Map CO2 Distribution over Cities.
- International Innovations featured the project this spring, A Commitment to Change.
- Ron Cohen gave a talk at the UC Berkeley Earth and Planetary Sciences Roundtable in May 2012, titled "Urban Metabolism: Watching CO2 Change."