News
Thursday, January 12, 2012
The Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA) has launched a Cool Roofs and Pavements Toolkit to help cities, regions, organizations, and building owners develop and deploy successful cool surface initiatives. The Toolkit is an on-line resource that GCCA will build up over time with targeted tools for a range of audiences. It is being launched with the publication of a primer and implementation guide, which are designed to be helpful to cool surface novices and experienced cool program managers alike.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Alex Doron, former science & technology editor of the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv, writes about the Heat Island Group's cool cars study for the Israeli energy newsletter EnergiaNews.com.
Monday, November 7, 2011
702 ABC Sydney Mornings Presenter Deborah Cameron interviews Ronnen Levinson about the Heat Island Group's cool cars study. This live radio program aired in Sydney, Australia on Monday, 7 November 2011 at 9:47 am.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The Berkeley Lab Heat Island Group addresses the role of cool roofs in cooling our planet, saving energy, and reducing carbon emissions in this response to a recent study by Stanford researchers Mark Jacobson and John Ten Hoeve.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
TreeHugger.com features the Heat Island Group's Cool Cars project, noting the benefits of solar reflective car coatings.
See the full post here.
Monday, October 17, 2011
The Daily Californian documents ongoing work on the global cooling benefits of reflective roofs being conducted by Heat Island Group scientists Surabi Menon, Marc Fischer, and Francisco Salamanca.
Read the full article HERE.
Friday, October 14, 2011
LBNL researchers Surabi Menon and Marc Fischer lead a DOE-sponsored project to explore the effects of pollution on cool roof benefits in India.
See the full Berkeley Lab feature here.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Berkeley Lab features a Heat Island Group study on the potential benefits of cool-colored car shells.
View the feature here.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Past work by Heat Island Group post-doc George Ban-Weiss on how Central Park and other urban green spaces contribute to global cooling.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Click to here read the "Doonesbury" comic that is all about white roofs.