Berkeley
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Berkeley bans: straws, plastic bags — and now gas pipelines too
Everyone can be a "valve turner" for their own home.
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NIMBYs could ruin Berkeley’s best chance of fighting climate change
Berkeley, California, plans to be zero carbon (or less) by 2030. That will require massive changes.
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If cities really want to fight climate change, they have to fight cars
Liberal cities have a blind spot when it comes to transportation and housing policy.
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By growing food, Occupy the Farm helps a movement grow up
With the takeover of a University of California agricultural testing station, Occupiers move from envisioning a new world to creating one.
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Climate deniers refuse to accept skeptical scientists’ results
So you know how we kind of use "climate change deniers" and "climate change skeptics" interchangeably, because news stories get super boring if you don't mix it up? We're not wild about doing that, because skepticism is in fact a great scientific value that people should embrace, whereas denialism is just sticking your fingers in […]
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Koch-funded scientists confirm global warming
Remember when physicist Richard Muller was called to testify in the House by denialist Republicans who thought he'd debunk global warming, and he ended up supporting it instead? That was fun! And it just happened again on a grander scale. Muller's group at Berkeley, which was funded in part by the Charles G. Koch foundation, has reexamined (with a skeptical eye, of course) a metric crapload of climate information -- including data from the University of East Anglia, i.e. Climategate Central. Their conclusion? "Global warming is real." Direct quote.
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The world's greenest car
Berkeley, Calif. news site Berkeleyside polled readers about what kind of car best embodies that famously granola town. The Volvo station wagon won out, but this shot by reader Ed probably better encompasses Berkeley's green leanings.
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Young greens, old greens, and cities
San Francisco Chronicle columnist John King has a smart piece on the "generation gap" between old-school environmentalists suspicious of urban development and younger greens who see density as essential.
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The cost of smart-growth support for green groups
Nature lovers and urbanist types should be a natural alliance for the simple reason that people living in walk/bike/transit-friendly neighborhoods aren't sprawling out into forests, wetlands, or farmlands. Props to the Sierra Club for educating its members on this.