With the proposed deal and issues of climate change and global justice coming under greater scrutiny, UC Berkeley and BP have increased their public relations efforts on the proposed EBI. We have posted some of this propaganda here in order to make explicit the subtle attempts at hegemony.

Press Releases & Website

• Numerous press releases

• EBI website

Magazine Features

• 'Start-up U,' California (magazie for Cal Alumni)
• Vanity Fair
• 'Collaborative Energy,' Berkeley Science Review, Issue 12.
• Energy Goes High Tech: An Interview with Steve Chu, Forbes Magazine, October 16th, 2007

Radio & Video Appearances

• 'Bear In Mind,' Online video of an interview with Chancellor Birgeneau and Steve Chu
• 'Can Termites Save the World,' Living on Earth, August 31, 2007
• 'Bear In Mind' (again), Online video interview with Chancellor Birgeneau about how the public can benefit by learning from tainted oil giant BP, October 2007
• 'Biofuels Update,' Dan Kammen on NPR's Science Friday, October 5th, 2007

Community Events:

• Dan Kammen at Earth Day at the Chabot Center
  
• The Helios Talks at the Berkeley Theatre by Steven Chu, A. Paul Alivisatos and Jay Keasling
• Zellerbach forum with former BP employee and now Amyris CEO John Melo on biofuels for jet planes

Mailings

• May 2007 letter from the Chancellor sent out to UC Berkeley alumni

Brochures

• The Spring 2007 issue of the glossy pamphlet 'The Promise of Berkeley' sent out to alumni, parents and friends focuses on the EBI (note that the language of "our generation's moon shot" was used by Thomas Friedman in editorials several years earlier)

Advertisements

• BP advertisement about UC Berkeley on the back cover of the National Geographic Traveler (May/June 2007)

• BP advertisement about UC Berkeley in the Wall Street Journal (February 12, 2007)

• Note that while BP has posted its other advertisements online, they have not posted the EBI-related ads.

Other

• EBI Commemorative Pins

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