Our cohort’s Talent Show last month was a very special event for me. (And I believe for a lot of other people too.) 🙂 I have to admit that organizing it was… tiny little bit slightly challenging. ERG’s Annual Talent Show is conceived as a team building event for each cohort in their first year, so the entire class had to contribute is some way. This was not my show.…
“I love water,” said Dick Norgaard, the legendary Energy and Resources professor, beginning his last class at UC Berkeley, and reflecting on a lifetime of water policy work. “We need water, and I’ve been obsessed with water since I was a small child.” For his last class, or as he put it, his “last, last, last class,” he was taking his California Water Policy & Society students out to the…
“It’s a big plastic stomach that’s outside in the yard, with a pipe that leads into the kitchen.”
A couple of years ago, and just prior to my coming to ERG, I made a decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail.
An incredible photo album illustrating the beautiful library architecture on campus.
This winter, we traveled to the Yucatan state of Mexico to enjoy the warm water and sunshine of Central America and to work with Alex Eaton, social entrepreneur.
Growing up in Mexico City, and everyday on our way to school, my sister and I would stare at the two highest mountains in the country: Pico de Orizaba (5,600 meters) and Iztaccihuatl (5,200 meters). At sunrise, and after a hard rain, the mountains would rise over a thick layer of smog, would fade throughout the day, but would always return at dawn. Omnipresent, yet taken for granted, these mountains…
Finals are almost finished, and we have a month-long break ahead of us. As my ERG cohort’s first semester draws to a close, it’s time to reminisce a little bit. I feel like a lot has happened since September, but also have perfectly vivid memories of our first meeting in Barrows Hall as a class. It’s been a challenging, yet rewarding few months. A big part of the challenge was…
Last weekend Jess G, Dimitry and Pierce formed an ERG team to attempt and master one hell of an emotional and physical challenge – the famous Spartan Beast obstacle course! On a cold pouring-rain Saturday they dove right in (quite literally) and came out as new people on the other side. Here is Dimitry’s account: 5 hours, 13 miles, and 25 obstacles later, we emerged victorious. It’s not every day…