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Toward a Carbon-Negative World
Now that green consciousness has percolated into the mainstream, you may have begun to...
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Give Peace a Wall
In 1983, Carolyna Marks was a young widow, renting out rooms in her Edwardian...
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Exercises for Your Brain
What if intelligence wasn't innate? What if you could choose a child's IQ by...
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We Know Who Did It
You wouldn't take James Silva for a book lover. A crab fisherman, maybe, or...
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The Recycling Realtor
On a Saturday afternoon in January in the pouring rain, recycler Maxine Malberg maneuvered...
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Rethinking the Corner Store
Last month, North Oakland's A & Sons Market got a makeover. Sharp, hunter-green awnings...
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Eugene Tsui Says It’s Time for Thinking Big
A two-mile high tower shaped like a termite mound that could house the entire...
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Framing Issues Is Hard; Just Ask George Lakoff
The Rockridge Institute closed down at the end of April not with a bang...
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Preschool + Trees + Hope = Health
Here's Dr. Tony Iton's prescription for a healthy West Oakland population: Take a good...
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The Planet That Plays Together Stays Together
In recent weeks, avid computer gamers in Iowa, Texas, New Zealand, and Brazil have...
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Drink Your Beef Tea and Pipe Down
Eat food. Not too much. Lots of bone broth and organ meat. With apologies...
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Activist Phones and Long-Term Research
Eric Paulos works a dream job at Intel Research Berkeley, a suite of labs...
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Nuclear CSI: New Deterrence for a New Era
Measured on a geological time scale — say, the 704 million year half-life of...
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Nice People Gain Power, (Which Makes Them Less Nice)
Back in September of 2000, professor Dacher Keltner walked into the Cal dormitory he...
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