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...renewable sources like hydropower or, as John McCain correctly insists, nuclear power, which should be carefully reconsidered). "A lot of utilities supplement their main power sources with quick-acting oil- or gas-driven generators on the hottest days of the year," says Lee Schipper of the University of California, Berkeley. Schipper estimates the cost of peak usage is 20 cents per kW-h, as opposed to an average of 13 cents for "baseload capacity" usage, and it is far more carbon-intense because it is generated...
Deep-green San Francisco isn't the only city to offer curbside food-scrap recycling. Across the bay, Alameda County--which includes Berkeley--also recycles organic waste from residences and restaurants, and in Seattle, the massive Cedar Grove recycling facility handles 40,000 tons of food waste a year. Toronto has the most extensive organic recycling program in North America, and Portland, Ore., is considering adding curbside food-scrap pickup...
Duncan has been an activist for more than a decade, starting out by helping to gather signatures for the 1996 initiative that legalized marijuana for medical purposes. At first skeptical, the Texas-born son of a physician and a nurse was moved by meeting a Berkeley schoolteacher who used marijuana to cope with the pain of glaucoma. "I thought, 'this isn't somebody wanting to get high - this is real,'" recalls Duncan. "I want to help...
...James Buck is a student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism...
...Despite their grievances over the perceived communication breakdown, some Allston residents said they are optimistic about the proposed Harvard Art Museum space in their community. Though Allston Civic Association President Paul Berkeley acknowledged that there was a lot of quick opposition to the museum upon its first proposal, he said, “I would like to see that given more discussion, because I see some benefit to a cultural use of that area...