Berkeley may be the second greenest city in California, but it doesn’t look like we’ll get to the number one spot any time soon. The AC system has a plan for dedicated bus lanes on Telegraph Avenue, but opponents are marshaling their forces to protest this most grievous of acts.
Enough signatures have been collected by petitioners for voter approval in November, which means that any hope of using public transportation for greening up our little city even more just got much dimmer.
Said dissenters argue that it will be the death of Telegraph, making parking even tougher in an environment notorious for parking troubles.
The proposition would cost an estimated $400 million—but does this mean that we, as students, still get our free bus passes?
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Berkeley rapid bus plan faces uphill battle [Chron]
Hailing from UCLA, a study called Green Market Geography has named Berkeley the second greenest city of California. Only second? Yeah, but Albany, our neighbor to the north, ranked in at the top.
The ranking was determined mostly through voting records on environmental issues but also included environmentally friendly cars and buildings.
But Berkeley doesn’t need any sort of accolade for its Earth-loving lifestyle.
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Posted by
Jill Cowan on Friday, April 25, 2008 03:59 pm
Monday was the fifth annual Sustainability Summit, organized by the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability (a.k.a. CACS, you know, in case you were curious). The Earth Week event started off with a few people talking about how awesomely their green projects have been going this year–and then they started handing out the green for green from green, if you know what we’re saying.
CACS announced the 2008 recipients of Green Fund Grants, “supporting innovative campus sustainability projects,” and presented the Berkeley environmental equivalent of The Oscars (for whatever they’re worth), Sustainability Awards.
And the winners are …
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Jill Cowan on Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:54 am
Leave it to Americans to completely bastardize a legit holy day and the traditions associated with it. We always knew that the level of intense debauchery that’s associated with St. Patrick’s Day stateside probably isn’t commemorative of St. Patty’s frequenting of Irish pubs. (And F.Y.I., until recently, booze was unavailable on the Emerald Isle on exactly two days per year–Good Friday and Mar. 17. Now that’s Ire-onic!) We realized that, at some point in the distant past, people probably took the sanctity of the day seriously, but we never imagined that even our tamer St. Patrick’s practices were so wrong. read more »
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