The 2013 World Solar Challenge came to an end in Adelaide, Australia, with the Dutch Nuon solar racing team from the Delft University of Technology taking home gold in the challenger class. The win constitutes Nuon’s fifth in seven tries.The World Solar...
Last month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first segment of its 5th report, which describes the scientific basis for climate change caused by humans. The IPCC’s goal is to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic...
ERA Science Board members Leslie Cordes and Dr. Omar Masera have been instrumental in addressing and finding possible solutions to one of the planet’s pressing environmental and health concerns. In impoverished communities across the globe, families prepare food...
Peter Seligmann, an ERA Science Board Member and Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Conservation International, believes that a sustainable future for our planet and the human race relies on collaboration across border lines. The following was featured in the May 21,...
Environmental Research Advocates founders Terry and Denise Avchen opened their home Sunday July 7, 2013 to celebrate the establishment of two Fulbright Canada Chairs annually at CNSI UCLA. Guests enjoyed remarks by Canadian Consul General David...
Professor Roberto Peccei has been selected to receive the American Physical Society’s (APS) 2013 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, awarded annually to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in particle theory. He received the award at...
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" – Carl SaganEnvironmental Research Advocates annually recognizes the “Global Top 50” leading science projects in renewable energy technology, as determined by our Science Advisory...
Environmental Research Advocates is proud to have played a role in the introduction of David Fransen, Consul General of Canada in Los Angeles, to Paul Weiss, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). This relationship has resulted in the establishment of...
John Hoagland, who was an ERA Science Advisory Board Member and the chairman of the J-Net Group and Ecology Communications, passed away on Wednesday May 1 surrounded by family at his home in Cape Cod. He will always be remembered for his passion for the...
Conservation International's Founder, CEO and an Environmental Research Advocates Board Member, Peter Seiligmann, honored Disney and its commitment to conservation by presenting Disney Chairman Robert Iger with the Global Conservation Leadership...
Each year, Earth Day -- April 22 -- marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The idea came from Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. Inspired by the ravages of the 1969...
The Earth Institute and International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) present a panel discussion, "Adapting to a Changing Climate: Managing Our Cities & Food Supply," with Lisa Goddard, Director, International Research Institute for...
ERA Science friend, Paul Weiss, and UCLA researchers have developed a new highly transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. Their study...
President Barack Obama greets Fermi Award recipients Dr. Burton Richter, right, and his wife Laurose, and Dr. Mildred S. Dresselhaus, third from right, and her husband Gene, in the Oval Office, May 7, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)The best science is...
Our mission is to fund, support, and acknowledge environmental research projects on a global level. We would like to extend our great appreciation to the law firm and partners of Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen and Shapiro LLP for their continuing support. Our...
Environmental Research Advocates (erascience.org) announces the launch of its new website designed by Zumwinkle.com June 21, 2013. ERA was established in 2009 to fund, acknolwledge and support research in the renewable energy sector.
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