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The 2023 Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program is back in-person! Join us on UC Berkeley's campus for this summer environmental certificate program from July 20 to August 4, 2023. Learn more and apply now at

Beahrs ELP application | Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program Please fill out the form below if you would like to apply for the 2023 Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program. This year's program will be both in-person and online, with the in-person portion taking place on UC Berkeley's campus from July 20 to August 4, 2023. Visit the 2023 program page for more....

The 2021 Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program is going online! You can now learn from UC Berkeley’s world-renowned experts from the comfort of your own home. The program will span from July to October to be as convenient as possible for anyone around the world. Take advantage of this opportunity and learn more about our online 2021 program here:

2021 Online Program Begin your professional transformation with the online Beahrs ELP We are excited to announce that we are taking the 2021 Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program online! We plan on resuming the regular in-person program in 2022, but this year's program will be delivered remotely to ensure the safety....

RSVP for Beahrs ELP 20th Anniversary Webinar: The Biden Administration and the Future of the Global Environment Thank you for your interest in attending the Beahrs ELP 20th Anniversary Webinar, which will be held on December 1 from 12:00 - 1:00 PM PST. Please fill out the following information in order to receive the Zoom link for the event.

Unfortunately due to the COVID-19 health crisis, we have decided to cancel the 2020 Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program. We came to this decision in response to the recommendations of local, national, and international public health authorities. The health and safety of our community and the world were first and foremost in our decision to cancel. While we are saddened that we are unable to hold the program this year, we understand that our actions can have serious effects in the worldwide fight against this pandemic, and we strive to take purposeful action during this time of crisis.

As of now, we are developing plans in hopes of holding the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program in Summer of 2021. We would like to thank the many applicants who put so much hard work into their applications this year, the sponsors and donors for continually supporting the program over the past 20 years, the ELP alumni network for providing so many great examples of how the ELP cohort can change the world, and to the many other supporters both here and around the world who believe in the ELP.

We hope that the entire Beahrs ELP community is staying safe and well during this uncertain time. Should you need anything, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the Beahrs ELP Team. More updates regarding the next program will be available in the following months.

China has been taking US plastic waste for three decades. In 2017, they stopped. Kate O’Neill, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, discusses the recycling crisis this has caused in the United States.

American recycling is turning into garbage. It’s a crisis. For 30 years, China took in the world’s plastic. What happened when they stopped?

Workshop attendee and agrifood professional Krisila Benson shares her top takeaways from our recently held workshop on Innovation in Agrifood Supply Chains: Finance, Profitability, and Sustainability.

Highlights from UC Berkeley-Solidaridad workshop on agrifood supply chain innovation L-R: Will Galvin, Self Help Africa and Mandla Nkomo, Managing Director, Solidaridad Southern Africa in a panel discussion on Transition of Supply Chains in Emerging Markets

James Sallee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, co-authored this piece arguing for a transition to a mileage tax.

Should Electric Vehicle Drivers Pay a Mileage Tax? EV drivers don’t pay the gasoline tax so pay less for roads. (Today’s post is co-authored by James Sallee) Every time we buy a gallon of gasoline, we help pay for roads. 18 cents goes to the U.S. H…

ESPM grad student Vera Chang received a Solutions Journalism Network Fellowship, which supports journalists working on investigative stories about effective responses to sexual violence. Vera will be writing a follow up article to her May 2018 Civil Eats piece, about how a human rights program made by and for farmworkers has reduced the incidence of sexual assault on farms in seven states where 35,000 farmworkers labor.

#MeToo #SolutionsToo grants enable journalists to report on sexual offences Three freelance journalists explain how grants of up to $1,500 from Solutions Journalism Network have helped them report on solutions to sexual offences across the world

One of the fundamental drivers of the environmental-justice movement is that low-income communities and communities of color are often at the forefront of environmental harm, since they are more likely to live in the path of air pollution and near toxic facilities like oil refineries. But a recently published study co-authored by ERG professor Dan Kammen, researcher Sergio Castellanos, and former postdoc Deborah Sunter highlights the fact that communities of color are also disproportionately missing out on the benefits of rooftop solar power.

The Rooftop Solar Revolution Is Missing Communities of Color A new study finds racial and ethnic disparities in rooftop solar adoption, even controlling for income and homeownership.

Read Professor David Zilberman's latest blog post for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs!

Guest Commentary - The Importance of Water Quality in Agrifood Production On April 10 and 11, a workshop on the design of agrifood supply chains that enhance profitability, sustainability, and human wellbeing will be held in Berkeley. Dr. David Zilberman, Recipient of the 2019 Wolf Prize in Agriculture, writes that supply chain design is at the frontier of research in agr...

With the support of a Tinker Foundation and CLAS-funded research grant, ESPM grad student Katherine Siegel spent two weeks in the Dominican Republic carrying out preliminary fieldwork for her dissertation, which studies the impacts of hurricane strikes on small-scale agricultural production.

RESEARCH — Making Landfall: Hurricanes and Agriculture Berkeley student Katherine Siegel examines the impact of hurricanes on Caribbean agriculture in an era of climate change.