If the University of California was a state, it would be the 15th largest.
The annual budget for UC is 20 times larger than Arizona, where Janet Napolitano was governor from 2003 to 2009.
So the impact of California’s 10 public university campuses, hospitals and research labs becoming carbon neutral in their energy consumption is an “audacious” goal, Napolitano told Verge 16, the GreenBiz Media Group conference, in Santa Clara, California.
The decision to tackle energy as a primary issue at UC stemmed from the same kind of assessment of meta risks she...