03: The ‘Big Idea’ that’s leading the push to make UC carbon-neutral

In 2004, Scott Zimmermann had a big idea. He had just quit the oil and gas industry — he’d been working in it for eight years, trying to reduce the impacts of fossil fuels — and enrolled at UC Berkeley as a dual-degree law student and master’s student in the Energy and Resources Group.He knew he wanted to do something about climate change. But instead of lobbying for the state or the federal government to adopt carbon cap laws, as a lot of environmentalists were doing at the time, he decided to start right where he was — with the campus.Read the story on UC Berkeley News: http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/10/01/cal-climate-action-partnership-big-idea/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.