The one-year anniversary of Berkeley’s momentous step toward reducing its greenhouse gas emissions has come and gone without much fanfare. But inside small city offices, tucked away in remote university laboratories, and even in the living rooms of community activists, ground-breaking actions are being taken —but not everyone is at ease with them.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an executive order Tuesday that halted fishing in the San Francisco Bay a week after a devastating oil spill wreaked havoc on marine life. Continue reading
An unlikely group of young teens clamor around a bushel of corn stalks in an organic garden they helped cultivate in the heart of West Berkeley.
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Supporters and defenders of the person who set Burning Man ablaze early reacted strongly Tuesday to the news that he had been arrested on charges of trying to burn down Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
The hotly contested Bus Rapid Transit proposal, if approved by the city, will mean big changes for mass transit in Berkeley. While there are plenty of quiet skeptics of the plan, there is a relatively small but vocal group of concerned citizens who argue that the general public is not sufficiently informed about the proposed plan and its potentially crippling drawbacks.
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