Tag: Berkeley
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Happy 3rd Anniversary David Brower Center! How a Building Can Build Community
The David Brower Center Serves As A Model For How A Building Can Be an Epicenter of Education and Activism for A Community
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Beautiful, Tiny Shed Office Uses Clever Tricks to Maximize Space
By carefully designing for usability, natural light and storage, this architect's tiny home office feels much bigger than it actually is.
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Gourmet Vegan Cinnamon Rolls Available Online, Endorsed By The Vegan Zombie
Eating vegan used to have a boring, worthy reputation. But Cinnaholic's gourmet vegan cinnamon buns are just the latest evidence that that is changing fast. And that should make all of us happy.
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$1800 Refrigerated Shipping Container Becomes Beautiful Architect's Studio (Video)
Shipping containers in architecture are a trendy meme right now. But this architect's studio is a step above your average box home.
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Beautiful Home Built from Salvaged Car Parts (Video)
A Bay Area architect shows us around his beautiful, efficient home built from salvaged car parts and other waste materials.
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How to Collect Scions for Growing Rare Fruit (Video)
Image credit: California Rare Fruit Growers Community seed libraries and online seed swapping are by no means the only way to share the biodiversity in our gardens. A scion exchange can be a great way to grow rare and unusual kinds of fruit. But what
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A Community-Run Seed Library - Shouldn't Every Library Loan Seeds? (Video)
We already know that saving seeds is critical to fighting climate change, yet seed libraries can prove tough to maintain. But what exactly is a seed library, and how can you use one? Here's a
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The Godfather of Efficiency Could Get His Own Unit of Energy Savings
Image: LA Times Seen by many as the godfather of energy efficiency, an international group of scientists has proposed that Arthur Rosenfeld deserves his own unit of electricity savings. The 54 authors of an article, published in Environmental Research
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Can One Call Mitch Kapor's Berkeley House "Green"?
There is a fight going on in Berkeley, over the construction of a house for Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus and creator of Lotus 123, the program that made personal computers useful.
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A Defense of School Gardens and Response to Caitlin Flanagan's "Cultivating Failure" in The Atlantic
The Edible Schoolyard program, which began in 1995 at Martin Luther King public middle school in Berkeley, has inspired growth of garden programs in other communities throughout the county during the past 15 years.The program
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8 College-Town Breweries Producing Great, Green Beer
Savvy, environmentally conscious (and of age!) beer enthusiasts know that even when you're in college, there's more to beer than dollar Pabst at the neighborhood dive. Microbreweries are leading the way when it comes to
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UC Berkeley Hydrates Its Students Twice as Fast
Ban the Bottle! Skip the Styrofoam! Pack Your Polycarbonate (Nalgene)! These are more than just empty slogans around UC Berkeley, which has just taken additional steps to encourage students to frequent local
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7 Hot CEOs and Their Cool Green Companies
Scott Mackinlay Hahn, Loomstate. Photo courtesy of Loomstate. Sustainable companies are on the rise but that didn't make it any easier for us to pick out the hottest eco-CEOs paving the way. However, we've managed to narrow the list down to seven that
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From Community Supported Agriculture to a Community Supported Kitchen
Community Supported Agriculture is now widespread in many U.S. cities and towns- you can find the ones nearest you at the great resource Local Harvest - as a way for farmers to get the economic support they need to keep
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Five Outstanding Green Restaurants
Here at TreeHugger, we've covered the sustainable food movement for years, but have never pulled together our own list of the greenest restaurants. Wait no more: these five outstanding green restaurants -- in no particular order -- are sure to please
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Berkeley Tree-Sitters Forced To Climb Down
After 21 Months, Berkeley Tree-Sitters Surrender Since December 2006, a community of UC Berkeley tree-sitters has been occupying a 1.5 acre grove on the university's Campus. This Wednesday, the last four remaining people climbed down. Pics of the tree
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Gecko Gription
Watch a gecko scramble up a wall and along the ceiling, and after a moment of amazement you might begin to wonder how they perform such acts of 'gription'. Similar amazement must have inspired scientists like Kellar Autumn, to investigate the gecko,
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Berkeley's Foodies Go to the Movies: SAFE Food and Farming Film Festival
TreeHugger loves inspiring film footage about sustainable food and farming. We’ve previously brought you a mini-movie about permaculture in the Middle East, and TreeHugger TV has aired episodes on How to Buy Green Produce, How to Find Green Fish, and
