Shaw, ERG Alumna: Helping Agribusiness

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Rebecca Shaw, MA 1992 Energy Resources Group, Ph.D. 1997 ERG, is featured in Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources Breakthroughs magazine.  With the book Diet for a Small Planet and childhood Methodist teachings as her guides, she calculated that a future of eating meat—at least at the same rate that most Americans eat meat—was unsustainable.

“If you can do that with nitrogen and greenhouse gas emissions reduction, you can do it with water, too,” says Shaw. “You can use the power of the supply chain to push in the right direction for water sustainability.”

Read her entire profile here.