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NEWS FROM THE BERKELEY CLIMATE CHANGE NETWORK
Summer Edition #3 - July 29, 2026
Summer Edition #3 - July 29, 2026
(every third week in Summer)
Exciting News: Over the next few months, the BCCN will be folded into the cool new Energy, Climate & Environment Office, headed by the Associate Provost for ECE, Rachel Morello-Frosch. Two excellent staff members have been hired — Narasu Rebbapragada (Comms) and Ya’el Seid-Green (EA) — with two more (Exec, Development) on the way. Stay tuned — more on the ECE Office rollout soon.
1. Why We Do This Work - Heat, Hype, Hope
2. The Fight for People and Science (Part 88)
3. Free Virtual Livestream -- Agentic AI Summit Aug 1-2
4. Startups! Apply for Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 23
5. Big Ideas! Blum Center Hiring New Director
6. Office of Sustainability Hiring Two Undergrad Fellows
7. Apply NOW for the Climatebase Fellowship Cohort 10
8. AGU Call for Climate Abstracts - Aug 5 Deadline
9. UCLA and Berkeley Law Support DC Clean Buildings ACT
10. CLEE Now Has a Big New Cool Web Site
11. Wealthy Cities That Refuse to Build Housing Just Lost Their Shield
12. Heat Heat Heat (and MUCH more coming)
1. Why We Do This Work
2. The Fight for People and Science (Part 88)
CalMatters outlines the latest on the Feds canceling UC research grants via key words and blue states. Berkeley Alumni News profiles Berkeley Law’s Claudia Polsky, leading the big class action suit that uncovered this latest chapter. Pro Publica: How Trump Admin may shut U.S. scientists out of next Nobel-worthy discoveries.
3. Free Virtual Livestream -- Agentic AI Summit Aug 1-2.
Agentic AI Summit 2026, Saturday, Aug. 1 – Sunday, Aug. 2, on campus will convene leaders across the agentic AI stack — from foundation models to real-world deployment. Berkeley’s Sergey Levine, Dawn Song and Ion Stoica are among the featured speakers. Get info and register for the FREE VIRTUAL LIVESTREAM
4. Startups! Apply for Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 23
SkyDeck is open to all entrepreneurs (no UC affiliation required) — Deadline August 21. To-date. SkyDeck alumni have raised over $3B in aggregate funding. Get all info and register here.
5. Big Ideas! Blum Center Hiring New Director
The Blum Center is hiring a Director of Innovation and Social Impact who will administer the long-standing Big Ideas contest, See this Big Ideas video — 20 years of bigness — and get your application in.
6. Office of Sustainability Hiring Two Undergrad Fellows
Supported by the Bonnie Reiss Leading on Climate Fellowship (UCOP), the fellows work 5-7 hours per week at $20/hour. Applications due AUG 9. Go to Handshake and look for #11227055. Will work on the Campus Sustainability Plan, the Sustainability Staff Training Program and more.
7. Apply NOW for the Climatebase Fellowship Cohort 10
Find out all about the Climatebase Fellowship at the final Cohort 10 Info Session August 4, 9 am PDT. RSVP here. Watch recordings of Cohort 9 info session and alumni panels here. The Climatebase Fellowship is “the climate career accelerator designed to help ambitious mission-driven professionals to supercharge their careers in climate, land their next job, or start their own projects and ventures.”
8. AGU Call for Climate Abstracts - Aug 5 Deadline
The California Climate Action Initiative is calling for abstracts for their session at the AGU 2026 Fall meeting in San Francisco December 7-11 — SY032 - Scalability of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Challenges: Linking Science to Solutions for California and Beyond.
9. UCLA and Berkeley Law Support DC Clean Buildings ACT
Berkeley Law’s Dan Farber and Sharon Jacobs are among 11 law experts supporting the DC act that says builders cannot use fossil fuels for on-site combustion in new or improved buildings. The case is one of several pending before federal courts involving industry groups’ challenges to local building decarbonization policies.
10. CLEE Now Has a Big New Cool Web Site
Our Center for Law, Energy and Environment (Berkeley Law) has spent a year producing a completely new site with greatly improved access to all things CLEE. See the 8 program areas, publication database, staff profiles and all sorts of resources for students, researchers and other stakeholders.
11. Wealthy Cities That Refuse to Build Housing Just Lost Their Shield
Housing and Climate, so tied together through buildings and transportation, are about to dance together in a different way. CED’s Nader Afzalan explains the brand new federal housing law — 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act --that will impact block grants, local housing departments, GHGs and more.
12. Heat Heat Heat (and MUCH more coming)
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