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...can’t be a leader on everything, but on environmental stuff it’s very clear we have to set the bar high and set it way out in front of us,” said Seidel, who went to college in Berkeley, Calif., a city noted for its environmentalism. “We’re the perfect size, we have plenty of resources, and we have lots of bright ideas. Cambridge ought to set a model for other cities to follow...
...trifling, but they can devastate farmers. Crops rotted on the vine across the U.S. in a ripple effect from last year's slight uptick in immigration enforcement; imagine what a wholesale move to a perennially backlogged system could bring. David Card, a labor economist at the University of California, Berkeley, says guest-worker programs are simply too stiff to fit with the dynamic U.S. market, both inside and outside agriculture. "Our strength is that our economy is fluid," he says. "If we need labor all of a sudden in New Orleans, the workers just show up. Once you rely...
...history. Hands-on activities are, for many kids, the best part of school, the part that keeps them engaged. The scope of education isn't supposed to be based on what's tested; it's the other way around, says P. David Pearson, dean of the University of California, Berkeley, graduate school of education. "Never send a test out to do a curriculum's job," he says...
...from an invisible subculture to an organized pursuit that's part of the fabric of everyday urban life," says John Case, a retired real estate financier who brought the Bikestation concept from Europe to Long Beach in 1996. Its popularity prompted public agencies and private groups in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Seattle have followed suit. The city of Santa Monica provides free valet parking on Sundays outside the farmer's market. The city of Chicago and McDonald's built their own Cycle Center in Millennium Park three years ago. And earlier this month, the mayor of Santa Barbara...
...leader on everything, but on environmental stuff it’s very clear we have to set the bar high and set it way out in front of us," said Seidel, who went to college in Berkeley, Calif., a city noted for its environmentalism. "We're the perfect size, we have plenty of resources, and we have lots of bright ideas. Cambridge ought to set a model for other cities to follow...