Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley

Exploring a Carbon-Free Future

Energy pioneer Stan Ovshinsky points to a machine that produces thin-film solar material by the mile at Uni-Solar Ovonic in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
(Mouseover image: Environment Minister Roberto Dobles of Costa Rica and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas of Mexico drive the solid-storage hydrogen-powered car).

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CLAS on YouTube

The 2008 Election from Latin America

(photo by Randy Beale/Laughing Squid.)

View CLAS highlights on YouTube: Berkeley Professor Dan Kammen, above, discusses high oil prices and the alternative energy industry.

CLAS video channel now on Youtube

Latin American views on the U.S. presidential election:
- Roberto Guareschi (Buenos Aires) offers a perspective of "Latin America on the Brink." (NEW!)
- Javier Couso (Santiago, Chile), with a "View from the Southern Cone."
- Daniel Coronell (Bogotá, Colombia) gives "A View from the Andes." (En español)

2007-08 Highlights

Stan Ovshinsky, "Alternative Energy and the Americas"	"The Year My Parents Went on Vacation," an award-winning film in our ongoing Cine Latino series	Fernando Botero and Robert Hass "A Conversation with the Artist" -part of Botero at Berkeley

Lecture and Event Series at CLAS
	The U.S.-Mexico Futures Forum Lecture Series	Rio Branco Forum on Brazil
	Bay Area Latin American Forum	Cine Latino
	Conflict, Memory and Transitions	Contemporary Cuba
	Development, Labor Standards and Economic Integration in the Americas

PAST CONFERENCES AT CLAS


Alternatives for the Americas	Challenges for Brazil	Colombia In Context	The U.S.-Mexico Futures Forum

Center for Latin American Studies
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Phone: (510) 642-2088
Fax: (510) 642-3260
E-mail: clas@berkeley.edu