The new policy requires that one- to four-unit buildings undergo upgrades that reduce planet-warming emissions around the time a structure is sold.| www.kqed.org
The utility giant paid the firm nearly $3.5 million, roughly one-third of which was initially billed to ratepayers. Environmental and ratepayer advocates say SoCalGas consistently uses underhanded tactics to fight state and local electrification efforts.| www.kqed.org
Astounding as it may seem, some people are saying that summer is over—a sentiment likely stemming from the fact that our public school system somehow crept up its start date to early August (anyone over the age of twenty will remember that school always started after Labor Day). Sadly, this pretty m...| 7x7 Bay Area
Przemyslaw Jeziorski, a tenured professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, was fatally shot on July 4 on the outskirts| Local News Matters
Housing Justice is Abolition Justice By Sarah Weaver Introduction I started my internship experience at the Freedom Archives with an interest and academic background in local organizing struggles against resource capitalism, focally grounded in prior research on People’s Park. In Read More »| Freedom Archives
In this University of California (UC) Office of Scholarly Communication blog series, we highlight the successes and challenges of leading journals published by UC’s eScholarship Publishing program through interviews with journal editors. Our latest interview is with editors of Parks Stewardship Forum (PSF): Jonathan B. Jarvis (Editorial Board member), Rebecca Conard (Co-Managing Editor), and David Harmon (Co-Managing Editor). In a few sentences, describe how Parks Stewardship Forum started ...| Office of Scholarly Communication
While the previous class related post was on the first project of CS61A, this is skipping straight to the second project of CS61B. There were 4 or 5 projects in between the two, but my main problem with them was that for the most part they were nothing more than fancy fill in the blank exercises. This project changed up that format by giving a ton of freedom to the students in terms of implementation.| Chris K. W.
From Olympians to record-breaking trailblazers, these Bay Area women in running history redefined resilience—proving women are limitless.| Berkeley Half Marathon
A new preprint at bioRxiv by Kerdoncuff et al. makes the following, somewhat surprising, claim: One of the individuals, referred to Sarazm_EN_1 (I4290) described above that was discovered with shell bangles showing affiliation with South Asia, has significant amount AHG-related ancestry, while a model without AHG-related ancestry provides the best fit for Sarazm_EN_2 (I4210) (Table S4.5). First| Eurogenes Blog
I'm amazed at how much I don't know once I start researching vintage items.| Perennial Vintage Supply
Can building multicultural bridges through art bring about positive change?| Jed Riffe Films
Decaying works, deceased creatives—in new exhibition, the Berkeley Art Museum imagines itself a columbarium.| 48 hills
Cyclists often complain about Strava’s downsides even as they are unable to resist its addictive appeal. The constant feedback of performance data and social comparison encourages users to constantly strive harder without taking pleasure in the more enjoyable parts of the sport.| david sasaki
Nuclear fusion processes similar to the sun’s have the potential to transform energy production on Earth. At least that’s the goal of California-based TAE Technologies, which plans to build the world’s first prototype hydrogen-boron fusion power plant, called Da Vinci, in the early 2030s. With Da Vinci, TAE’s seventh-generation test machine, the company seeks to […]| Exascale Computing Project
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A new psychedelic salon in Berkeley seeks to establish a collegial, non-commercial, intergenerational community that harkens back to old-school psychedelic community discussions.| Lucid News - Psychedelics, Consciousness Technology, and the Future of Wellness