CARES: Community Assessment for Renewable Energy and Sustainability

Sustainable Design is the art and science of designing products, services, and the built environment to meet the three pillars of sustainability: society, environment, and economics.

Globally, significant attention is being placed on designing sustainable engineering technologies, such as alternative and renewable energy technologies, to improve an individual’s level of sustainability and reduce the energy consumption, water consumption, and climate changing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated anthropogenic activities.

Alice Agogino is co-founder of the Engineering and Business for Sustainability certificate program. See Luce video of BEST Lab Projects and the Engineers for Business and Sustainability Programs.

Projects

  • Collaboration with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation
  • Participlace: Sustainable Human-Centered Design Competition. In 2012, ParticiPlace’s challengers will design an off-grid living-culture center for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN), a Native American nation in Northern California. The emphasis will be on a zero-energy building which is sensitive to the local culture and place.The community is in the final process of re-purchasing ancestors lands where they hope to build the Living Culture Center to become a place to practice, preserve, and revive their culture for generations to come.

Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES)

  1. Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES)
  2. CARES: Pinoleville Pomo Nation-UC Berkeley Partnership
  3. CARES: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)-Dar Al-Hekma College-UC Berkeley Partnership

Funding Organizations

    1. ParticiPlace: Community-Based Participatory Research through an International Design Competition, May 2013. Article by former doctoral student Yael Perez about the international competition that formed the basis of her thesis. Except: “Based on case-studies in the field of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), technology without human motivation is not enough to create development. Empowering local communities requires both a top-down approach and a bottom-up solution. The opportunity provided to Native American Nations in the US to use federal funds to both design and build their own housing solutions is a top-down approach that calls for bottom-up solutions to allow the community simple ways to influence the design — essentially the core of this project. Together with Professor Agogino from the department of Mechanical Engineering and Ryan Shelby, a Mechanical Engineering PhD. student, we established CARES — Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability — with the goal to support Native American and other communities in making informed decision about sustainable design solution“.
    1. National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
    2. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
    3. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Tribal Energy Program

News Articles

  1. Mind the Culture Gap: Bridging the Divide Between Technology and Cultural Communities, May 2014
  2. Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative, May 14, 2013
  3. Luce Video, January 23, 2012
  4. CARES Team Wins 2nd Place in Big Ideas Competition, May 23, 2011
  5. “Engineering Design that CARES“, Gordy Slack, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), June 2011
  6. CARES Wins Chancellor’s Award for Community Service, March 23, 2011
  7. “Cal’s newest generation forges ahead: Design Sensitivity“, University Relations, The Promise of Berkeley, pgs. 8-9, Fall 2009
  8. “Student design embraced by Pinoleville Pomo Nation”, UC Berkeley College of Engineering’s ForeFront, Spring 2009
  9. “Real-life lessons in native design“, UC Berkeley College of Engineering’s Engineering News, December 2008
  10. “Real-life lessons in native design“, UC Berkeley College of Engineering’s Innovations, October 2008
  11. “Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability“, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance, March 2008

Conference Proceedings:

  • Mathieu, J.L., A.J. Gadgil, and A.M. Agogino, “Design strategies and preliminary prototype for a low-cost arsenic removal system for rural Bangladesh”, International Conference WEDC (Water, Engineering and Development) – Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Sustainable Development and Multisectoral Approaches”; http://www.wedcconference.co.uk/call_for_papers.php. Updated version published by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as LBNL-2696E, September
    14, 2009.
  • “Sustainable Product Design: Designing for Diversity in Engineering Education“, (A. Agogino, L. Oehlberg, R. Shelby), Proceedings of the Mudd Design Conference, 2009
  • Schultz, T.C., R. Shelby, and A. Agogino. “Co-design of Energy-Efficient Housing with the Pinoleville-Pomo Nation.” ASME ES Conf. Proc. 2010, ES2010-90190.
  • Shelby, R. and A.M. Agogino, “The Assessment And Prioritization Of User Needs With The Pinoleville Pomo Nation For The Development Of Sustainable And Renewable Energy Systems”, Proceedings of ASME DETC 2011, ASME, CD ROM DETC2011-48661; pp. 515-526.
  • Shelby, R., Perez, Y., and Agogino, A. (2011). “Co-Design Methodology for the Development of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Systems for Underserved Communities: A Case Study with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation”,IDETC/CIE 2011, August 29-31, 2011, Washington, DC, USA, 2011
  • Tribal Housing, Codesign, and Cultural Sovereignty, Science, Technology & Human Values, first published on June 25, 2013
  • Vechakul, J. and A.M. Agogino, “A Comparison of Two Transdisciplinary Human-Centered Design Approaches for Poverty Alleviation,” Proceedings of The Future of Transdisciplinary Design(TFTD13), June 2013. http://designaxes.com/
  • Perez, Y. and A.M. Agogino, “Information and Communication Technologies as a Bridge between Global Designers and Local Users”, Proceedings of The Future of
    Transdisciplinary Design     (TFTD13), June 2013.

Journal Proceedings:

  • Shelby, R., Y. Perez and A.M., Agogino, “Partnering with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation: Co-Design Methodology Case Study for Creating Sustainable, Culturally Inspired Renewable Energy Systems and Infrastructures,” Special Issue of Sustainability: Changing the Energy Systems to Renewable
    Energy Self-Sufficiency    , 4 (5), 2012, pp. 794-818. doi:10.3390/su4050794

Book Chapters:

  • Perez, Y., R. Shelby, D. Edmunds, A. James and A.M. Agogino, “Social Factors in the Age of
    Social Media – A Multidisciplinary Approach,” special chapter in Death and Life of Social Factors, Nov.
    2013.

Technical Reports:

  • Surfboard Cradle-to-Grave: Carbon Footprint of the Surfing Lifestyle. Tobias Schultz, 12/2009. Download report.
  • Surfboard Cradle-to-Grave. Tobias Schultz, 6/2009. Download report.
  • Surfboard Cradle-to-Grave Technical Report. Tobias Schultz. 6/2009. Download report.
  • “Potential Low Energy Strategies for New Housing for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation Community in Lakeport, CA”, Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability, 06/2008. Download Report.

Technical Posters:

  • Schultz, T. C., Y. Perez, R. Shelby, A. Agogino, et al. (2009). “The Design of Energy- and Water-Efficient Housing with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation”, American Indian Science and Engineering Society National Conference Poster Presentation. Oct. 30, 2009. Download Poster.
  • “Alice Agogino: Berkeley Expert Systems Technology Design Lab Research Overview”, Women’s International Research Engineering Summit (WIRES), Poster Session, 06/2009. Download Poster.
  • “Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability”, University of California, Berkeley, CITRIS Finalists Poster Session, 05/2009. Download Poster.
  • “Developing Sustainable Communities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”, University of California, Berkeley, Sustainability Fair Poster Session, 04/2009. Download Poster.
  • “Pawprint: Understanding Student Eco-Impact”, University of California, Berkeley, Sustainability Fair Poster Session, 04/2009. Download Poster.
  • “The Co-design of Eco-and Culturally-inspired Housing for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation” , University of California Berkeley, Sustainability Fair Poster Session, 04/2009. Download Poster.
  • “Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability”, University of California, Berkeley, Sustainability Fair Poster Session,  4/2009. Download Poster.
  • “Developing Sustainable Communities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”, University of California, Berkeley, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Poster Session, 01/2009. Download Poster.
  • “The Co-design of Eco-and Culturally-sensitive Housing for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation”, American Indian Science & Engineering Society National Conference, Graduate Poster Session, 10/2008. Download Poster.

Published Presentations:

Unpublished Presentations:

  • R. Shelby, “A Human Centered Approach to Co-design Culturally-sensitive and Sustainable Housing with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation”, American Indian Science & Engineering Society National Conference, Graduate Oral Presentation Session, 10/2008. Download Presentation.
  • A.M. Agogino, “Greening the Internet of Things: Smart Products in a Smart Grid”, Distinctive Voices Series at the Johnsson Center, Woods Hole, August 2, 2011. Download slides.