People told how much cancer-causing pollution they could prevent were more likely to change their power usage than people told how much money they could save.
Using UCLA environmental research, the Los Angeles City Council passed a motion to develop a program to improve energy and water conservation efforts in city buildings that consume the most resources.
Report by the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative at the UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools suggests that used electric vehicle batteries may be a promising solution to California's search for cheap energy storage.
Researchers at UCLA have set the stage for a watershed in mobile energy by using a unique graphene material to significantly boost the amount of energy supercapacitors can store.
The new cells could serve as a power-generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users' ability to see through the surface.