BLERG! Application FAQs for prospective students
This blog post, written by a group of ERG students, contains advice that we often give to prospective ERG applicants and that we wish we’d heard when we applied for graduate school.
Tag: how-to
Cleantech to Market: Why let the MBAs have all the fun?
Berkeley Haas Business School’s Cleantech to Market (C2M) class provides free consulting to clean technology firms to help them through this journey from R&D to commercialization. Its goals are to prevent promising ideas from dying in the pre-commercial gap, and to train an interdisciplinary group of students to evaluate and pitch these technologies – valuable skills for their lives after graduate school.
What is Design Thinking? And What Does it Have to Do with Sustainability?
Many of us at ERG wonder why there continues to be electricity waste and resource waste, despite available solutions.
Divesting from Fossil Fuels, Part 2: Retirement Accounts and Mutual Funds
Large mutual funds and index funds are invested in everything, from big tobacco to Monsanto to fossil fuels. Their objective is to encapsulate and track the entire economy. However, recent research shows that performance of such fossil fuel-invested portfolios do not outperform those that are fully divested.
Divesting from Fossil Fuels, Part 1: Personal Banking
Do you feel powerless in the face of climate change? Do you have money in a major bank? Do you own any stocks? What about that retirement account you forgot about from a previous employer? Are you confused by the massive, opaque financial world but acknowledge the need to save for boba tea and multiple pairs of socks? Maybe you want to know how your money can be used to…
To CSA or not to CSA? That is not the question!
As the rains fell generously on Northern California last winter, many local farmers eagerly anticipated the healthy plants and high yields sure to come in this year’s growing season. California’s water problems are far from solved (especially when it comes to groundwater levels that remain well below average in aquifers across the state), but the high soil water content produced lush green hillsides that just two years ago were golden…
The Mentee
It’s my second year in ERG. That may not be a long time, but trust me, I kind of know what I’m doing.
Growing with graywater: How to build a simple graywater system in your own backyard
When I first laid eyes on our spacious, but bone-dry backyard, my mind was filled with big ideas – the kind you see in those summer hardware store commercials with smiley DIYers
Is the Force with Me in Grad School?
At times it’s difficult to explain the ERG student experience — even to other grad students at Berkeley. But it’s not so different from other grad students when you think of it in terms of “the Force.”
GSPP & ERG Dual Degree: A Story in Progress
The apparent increasing popularity of the dual degree has led me to reflect a bit on why I made the choice to double up in my graduate education.