Cougar sightings are not uncommon in the Berkeley hills. A Berkeley Lab staffer reported seeing one on Lab property recently. Photo: princecody Cougar sightings are not uncommon in the Berkeley hills. A Berkeley Lab staffer reported seeing one on Lab property recently. Photo: princecody UC Berkeley Police have issued an alert about a possible mountain lion sighting […]
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East Bay at high risk of wildfires: Preventive measures key
One of the last significant wildfires in the Bay Area was on Angel Island in October 2008. Photo: Chris Wage/Creative Commons Allen Benitez, Chief of Protective Services at Berkeley Lab admits he’s nervous. “With the drought this summer, there is an extraordinarily high risk of fire in the hills,” he said. The Lab’s location in the Berkeley foothills, […]
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Berkeley staff aims to grow city’s ‘innovation ecosystem’
Last fall, the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce presented its first Visionary Awards. The event was held at the Berkeley Skydeck, an “incubator accelerator” designed to help startups grow. The awards program and Skydeck itself are among various recent efforts aimed to boost Berkeley’s “innovation ecosystem.” Photo: Mark Coplan/BUSD Last fall, the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce […]
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Streamlined permitting aims to cut solar costs
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan speaks in support of a new streamlined solar permit process across nine Bay Area cities, at Sungevity’s Jack London Square offices. Photo: Julia Hannafin Oakland Mayor Jean Quan speaks in support of a new streamlined solar permit process across nine Bay Area cities, at Sungevity’s Jack London Square offices. Photo: Julia […]
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Berkeley set for $12.7M in downtown transport grants
An early conceptual rendering of the new Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza and the reconfigured two-way Shattuck Avenue. A lightweight roof canopy with photovoltaic cells provides daylight, natural ventilation and solar power to the station and the plaza. Berkeley expects to get $12.7 million in grant funding for changes to BART Plaza, Shattuck Avenue and Hearst […]
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Unstable hillside closes road, relocates Berkeley Lab staff
Consistent rain has destabilized the hillside above McMillan Road on the Berkeley Lab campus. Photo: D.H. Parks Local photographer Daniel Parks recently posted some dramatic images on Flickr of a slumping hillside on the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory campus. According to a page set up by Berkeley Lab to share news about the situation, “Consistent […]
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UC Berkeley’s Helios Building set to open in August
The Helios building brings together LBL and UC Berkeley researchers to work on ways to curb climate change. Photo: Rudolph and Sletten The Helios building brings together LBL and UC Berkeley researchers to work on ways to curb climate change. Photo: Rudolph and Sletten The Helios Building, a new addition to downtown Berkeley, is in the very […]
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Program trains girls to build phone apps, embrace science
Students from Technovation Challenge show off their Android app idea. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The mood was serious at 8:00 am Saturday at the David Brower Center. Fifty girls from Berkeley and Albany high schools were milling around the lobby in anticipation of showing off the Android apps they had spent weeks designing. In one corner […]
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From a Berkeley garage, a solar initiative that saves lives
Social entrepreneurs Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson: helping to save lives in developing countries with their solar suitcase invention The week before last, the city of Berkeley took time to honor two of its citizens. Laura Stachel and her husband Hal Aronson were issued with a proclamation and words of praise from Mayor Tom Bates […]
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Revealed: A Berkeley restaurant guide and labor of love
The cover design for the "Restaurants in the Berkeley Area" guide was designed by Harold Poskanzer Over the past 34 years, Art and Lucille Poskanzer, who dine out at least once a week, have compiled what is probably the only dedicated restaurant guide to Berkeley and Oakland. However, unless you happen to work at the […]
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Lab choice may prove beneficial to Berkeley in long term
Officials ready for the press conference announcing Richmond as the new site for the second campus of LBNL. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel By Lance Knobel and Frances Dinkelspiel In late September and early October, Dr. Jeff Ritterman, a member of the Richmond City Council, went down to Berkeley West Biocenter on Potter Street, one of the […]
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Breaking: Berkeley Lab chooses Richmond for 2nd campus
Design for the Richmond Field Station Lab campus The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has selected Richmond as the site for its second campus. The Lab annnounced the news this morning on its website, saying the University of California-owned Richmond Field Station site “presents the best opportunity to solve the Lab’s pressing space problems while allowing for […]
