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</div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><div><p class="personBio" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 15px 2px; line-height: 1.6em; border-top: 0px dotted rgb(139, 170, 203);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Brent Constantz invented revolutionary products for healing broken bones, he was inspired by the research on coral reefs he had conducted as a UCSC graduate student.

Constantz is known for the development of innovative high-performance medical cements and devices. He founded and was CEO of three medical device companies, is named as inventor on more than 70 issued U.S. patents, and his cements for bone fractures are used worldwide.

Now, drawing on the same source of inspiration, Constantz has developed a new process for making construction cement that could help reverse global warming. His latest company, Calera, captures carbon emitted by power plants and converts it into a form that can be reused to make "green cement" (the standard manufacturing process for the cement used in concrete releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere). Calera's subsidiary, Moss Landing Cement Company, has built several pilot plants and a large-scale demonstration plant at Moss Landing, just down the coast from Santa Cruz.

The company recently began a concrete demonstration project in Santa Cruz to start introducing the new material to the building industry. Constantz is also leading a new effort to supply potable water to Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, drawing deep water from the Monterey Submarine Canyon for desalination at Moss Landing.

Constantz says, "UCSC offered the unique combination of very solid scientific credentials in the geological and biological sciences with the freedom to work transparently across the various disciplines required for the study of biomineralization, which encompasses crystallography to physiology, and everything in between. Of course, the campus's greatest attribute is the quality of its faculty."</font></p></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://emclick.imodules.com/wf/click?upn=O0vBhU9Zd21cOvdbs50rOsfY6HbkNt9yF4NQW6TINExgJTz0PR8XMcIAsEqFxtdGPROcT1t4NeSeR7lQqk-2BMuJA7SkSxWskcwlvPhD8eGpNCZa-2Fq-2BqVNhv5r-2BYe5CEV-2B_cXZVydsT7XYkeoQPNW4-2FtutRvkUOBPOIBn5PqNwvCP9jR7Y427ykkzirzD1JrCxGCZ2Ac7XvcOGOwdU21GXpc4-2Blp2NNsTdYmD3W8xDyTMpYaRvNBQwiTFLw9ZqhoYYAlS5ux8Y15tMGmA4tDnFnvtxrV6c0RwtVxXlNkj4-2BWclG7vF5k0Yo-2Fkq5dSipXiqLLt979fJF5cLPwkkAfncx1TLE9pF-2BeCUiA-2Fk70dsdIXrvnGuN-2FvnSDxxCO35KXz-2F3QeMyWxWUUEYtw2PnFZWjEI-2FH4FWdw9mqguOO3tK1-2BcJfhJnM7UgRhzj4uxlO-2BkASA2CW5QWuEooxjwQSJParjJYBRAnkbCbnd5sSrDyiokLPRKQKPygtKNoAhrRiTuMvdRah67hRwjlkDUIYXjqKhUQFEitCJj8514ekQeIQZJvj6kjV2jf21dN6na65GTNu39O0SDZwE61kM3Zfb6oNmQ-3D-3D" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://emclick.imodules.com/wf/click?upn%3DO0vBhU9Zd21cOvdbs50rOsfY6HbkNt9yF4NQW6TINExgJTz0PR8XMcIAsEqFxtdGPROcT1t4NeSeR7lQqk-2BMuJA7SkSxWskcwlvPhD8eGpNCZa-2Fq-2BqVNhv5r-2BYe5CEV-2B_cXZVydsT7XYkeoQPNW4-2FtutRvkUOBPOIBn5PqNwvCP9jR7Y427ykkzirzD1JrCxGCZ2Ac7XvcOGOwdU21GXpc4-2Blp2NNsTdYmD3W8xDyTMpYaRvNBQwiTFLw9ZqhoYYAlS5ux8Y15tMGmA4tDnFnvtxrV6c0RwtVxXlNkj4-2BWclG7vF5k0Yo-2Fkq5dSipXiqLLt979fJF5cLPwkkAfncx1TLE9pF-2BeCUiA-2Fk70dsdIXrvnGuN-2FvnSDxxCO35KXz-2F3QeMyWxWUUEYtw2PnFZWjEI-2FH4FWdw9mqguOO3tK1-2BcJfhJnM7UgRhzj4uxlO-2BkASA2CW5QWuEooxjwQSJParjJYBRAnkbCbnd5sSrDyiokLPRKQKPygtKNoAhrRiTuMvdRah67hRwjlkDUIYXjqKhUQFEitCJj8514ekQeIQZJvj6kjV2jf21dN6na65GTNu39O0SDZwE61kM3Zfb6oNmQ-3D-3D&source=gmail&ust=1554228487601000&usg=AFQjCNH6nWxAXRTnFIWLK2jBNSUnQh4LKw">Emeriti Lecture with Phil Crews</a>
<span style="line-height: 1;"><strong>April 9, 7 p.m., Music Center Recital Hall, free admission    </strong>
Phil Crews, distinguished research professor of chemistry and biochemistry, delivers the emeriti lecture: "Inspirational Biomolecules from Oceania."</span></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 1;">
</span></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(55, 71, 79); font-family: " helvetica="helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Professor Crews is an early pioneer in the field of marine natural products.</span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><div><div class="personData2" style="width: 387px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; line-height: 1.4em; clear: both; background-color: rgb(209, 221, 234);"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 15px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 187, 213);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stevenson College • 1984, B.A. biology</font></p><p class="last" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 3px 15px; border-bottom: 0px solid rgb(162, 187, 213);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Current Positions: Research scientist, Center for Occupational & Environmental Health (COEH), School of Public Health, UC Berkeley • Associate Director for Integrative Sciences and Systems Studies, Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (BCGC)</font></p></div><p class="personBio" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 15px 2px; line-height: 1.6em; border-top: 0px dotted rgb(139, 170, 203);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Michael Wilson</b> is a <b>pioneer in the emerging field of sustainable or "green" chemistry</b>. With 74 billion pounds of industrial chemicals produced and imported each day in the U.S. (much of it toxic or ecotoxic) Wilson's work focuses on transforming the nature of chemical design and production.

He spearheaded formation of UCB's Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry in 2004, the nation's first major academic program to advance green chemistry through interdisciplinary scholarship. Wilson was chief author of an influential 2006 UCB report to the California State Legislature, <em>Green Chemistry in California: A Framework for Leadership in Chemicals Policy and Innovation</em>, and his work helped launch California's sweeping Green Chemistry Initiative.

He serves on California's Green Ribbon Science Panel and Biomonitoring Scientific Guidance Panel, and is also a member of International Panel on Chemical Pollution (Stockholm, Sweden) and the International Scientific Advisory Committee for Sustainable Chemistry (Antwerp, Belgium). Wilson's interdisciplinary approach can be traced back to his days at UCSC, where his senior thesis on the science, policy, and ethical aspects of genetic engineering won honors from noted UCSC biologists Eugene Cota-Robles and Robert Sinsheimer.</font></p></div><div><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">4/19 ucsc</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://emclick.imodules.com/wf/click?upn=O0vBhU9Zd21cOvdbs50rOsfY6HbkNt9yF4NQW6TINExgJTz0PR8XMcIAsEqFxtdGPROcT1t4NeSeR7lQqk-2BMuJA7SkSxWskcwlvPhD8eGpNCZa-2Fq-2BqVNhv5r-2BYe5CEV-2B_cXZVydsT7XYkeoQPNW4-2FtutRvkUOBPOIBn5PqNwvCP9jR7Y427ykkzirzD1JrCxGCZ2Ac7XvcOGOwdU21GXpc4-2Blp2NNsTdYmD3W8xDyTMpYaRvNBQwiTFLw9ZqhoYYAlS5ux8Y15tMGmA4tDnFnvtxrV6c0RwtVxXlNkj4-2BWclG7vF5k0Yo-2Fkq5dSipXiqLLt979fJF5cLPwkkAfncx1TLE9pF-2BeCUiA-2Fk70dsdIXrvnGuN-2FvnSDxxCO35KXz-2F3QeMyWxWUUEYtw2PnFZWjEI-2FH4FWdw9mqguOO3tK1-2BcJfhJnM7UgRhzj4uxlO-2BkASA2CW5QWuEooxjwQSJParjJYBRAnkbCbnd5sSrDyiokLPRKQKPygtKNoAhrRiTuMvdRah67hRwjlkDUIYXjqKhUQFEitCJj8514ekQeIQZJvj6kjV2jf21dN6na65GTNu39O0SDZwE61kM3Zfb6oNmQ-3D-3D" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://emclick.imodules.com/wf/click?upn%3DO0vBhU9Zd21cOvdbs50rOsfY6HbkNt9yF4NQW6TINExgJTz0PR8XMcIAsEqFxtdGPROcT1t4NeSeR7lQqk-2BMuJA7SkSxWskcwlvPhD8eGpNCZa-2Fq-2BqVNhv5r-2BYe5CEV-2B_cXZVydsT7XYkeoQPNW4-2FtutRvkUOBPOIBn5PqNwvCP9jR7Y427ykkzirzD1JrCxGCZ2Ac7XvcOGOwdU21GXpc4-2Blp2NNsTdYmD3W8xDyTMpYaRvNBQwiTFLw9ZqhoYYAlS5ux8Y15tMGmA4tDnFnvtxrV6c0RwtVxXlNkj4-2BWclG7vF5k0Yo-2Fkq5dSipXiqLLt979fJF5cLPwkkAfncx1TLE9pF-2BeCUiA-2Fk70dsdIXrvnGuN-2FvnSDxxCO35KXz-2F3QeMyWxWUUEYtw2PnFZWjEI-2FH4FWdw9mqguOO3tK1-2BcJfhJnM7UgRhzj4uxlO-2BkASA2CW5QWuEooxjwQSJParjJYBRAnkbCbnd5sSrDyiokLPRKQKPygtKNoAhrRiTuMvdRah67hRwjlkDUIYXjqKhUQFEitCJj8514ekQeIQZJvj6kjV2jf21dN6na65GTNu39O0SDZwE61kM3Zfb6oNmQ-3D-3D&source=gmail&ust=1554228487601000&usg=AFQjCNH6nWxAXRTnFIWLK2jBNSUnQh4LKw" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 69, 140) !important;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Emeriti Lecture with Phil Crews</span></a><br style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 1; font-size: 16px;"><strong>April 9, 7 p.m., Music Center Recital Hall, free admission    </strong>
Phil Crews, distinguished research professor of chemistry and biochemistry, delivers the emeriti lecture: "Inspirational Biomolecules from Oceania."</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.ecowatch.com/carbon-capture-india-baking-soda-2177070984.html</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">good news?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">di</font><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">caprio</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">...</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;">Carbon Clean Solutions is not the first company to attempt to commercialize a process to convert CO2 emissions into commercially marketable products.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2012, a U.S. startup named Skyonic <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/428348/what-to-do-with-co2-from-coal-how-about-make-baking-soda/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">raised $9 million</a> from investors to build a plant to convert carbon emissions from a <a href="http://www.skyonic.com/projects/capitol-skymine-plant" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">cement plant</a> in San Antonio, Texas. The investors included ConocoPhilips, BP and PVS Chemicals. The <a href="http://www.skyonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/News-Release-Capitol-SkyMine-Grand-Opening-October-20-2014.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">facility opened</a> in October 2014 at the Capitol Aggregates plant and <a href="http://www.expressnews.com/business/business_columnists/david_hendricks/article/Look-in-the-sky-it-s-lower-emissions-6746540.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">became operational</a> in January 2016. Outputs include baking soda, bleach and hydrochloric acid. 
</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.skyonic.com/technologies/skymine" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Skyonic</a> has said that, at full capacity, the plant will be able to capture 75,000 tons annually of CO2. The company claims that its process uses 30 percent less energy than more common <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/carbon-capture-only-realistic-and-affordable-way-to-dramatically-reduc-1882156923.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">carbon capture technologies</a>. The plant was financed with the aid of a $28 million award under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">California-based <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/leonardo-dicaprio-joins-carbon-capture-technology-company-to-bring-abo-1882171898.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Blue Planet</a> produces concrete and other building materials from sequestered CO2. The company says its concrete can be carbon neutral or carbon negative. Climate activist and actor <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/leonardo-dicaprio" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Leonardo DiCaprio</a> is a member of the firms' government affairs advisory board.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The company captures industrial carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and factories and transforms it into concrete materials. Photo credit: Blue Planet</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Brent Constantz, Blue Planet’s founder and CEO,</b> said in a statement on the formation of the advisory board: “Bringing these leaders together to advise the company will guide our important initiatives with world governments. We encourage policies that promote carbon mitigation technology on a massive scale. We welcome the expertise, passion and unique platforms that Leo, Daniel and Durwood bring to the company. I look forward to working closely with them.”</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DiCaprio—who <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/22/dicaprio-divest-fossil-fuels/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">urges</a> a "transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels"—is a powerful advocate for environmental action. In September 2015, DiCaprio <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/22/dicaprio-divest-fossil-fuels/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">pledged</a> to divest from fossil fuels as part of the <a href="http://divestinvest.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Divest Invest Coalition</a>, which encourages business leaders to <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=divest" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">divest</a> from fossil fuels and in businesses that contribute to climate change and to invest in environmentally conscious companies instead.</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---</p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;">Oscar-nominee and environmental philanthropist </span><a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=leonardo+dicaprio" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;">Leonardo DiCaprio</a><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;"> has </span><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160210006167/en/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;">joined</a><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;"> the newly-formed government and policy advisory board of </span><a href="http://www.blueplanet-ltd.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;">Blue Planet</a><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;">, a prominent developer of carbon capture technology based in Los Gatos, California....</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;">It's safe to say </span><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/12/dicaprio-revenant-climate-action/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;"><em>The Revenant</em> star</a><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;"> knows a thing or two about carbon capture. According to the announcement, DiCaprio made a personal investment in Blue Planet and produced last year's documentary film </span><em style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://leonardodicaprio.org/new-film-biomimicry-explores-natures-technology/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(82, 149, 70); outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Biomimicry</a></em><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Hind; font-size: 18px;">, which covered carbon capture technologies, including those developed by the company. Watch here (starts at 7:50):</span><font color="#1f1f1f" face="Hind"><span style="font-size: 18px;">
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