Earth Day in Oakland: Jingletown, Dimond and elsewhere (Photos)
Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Thu, 21 Apr at 11:29am.

Over 4,000 volunteers reportedly celebrated Earth Day 2011in Oakland by--what else--cleaning and beautifying parts of our city. One busy corner was Jingletown, where community members turned out to clean and beautify the streets--and those gorgeous murals. See the photos, thanks to Russ Osterweil:

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You Choose Bay Area: New online planning tool offers ways to envision growth, shape policies
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Fri, 25 Mar at 5:49am.

By 2035 there will be an estimated 1.2 million new jobs and 900,000 new households within the Bay Area.

Where will all of these people live? Where will the new housing be built? How will people get around? Will the air we breathe and the water we drink be clean? Will we still be able to enjoy extensive and accessible open spaces?

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Los EcoAmigos looking for participants for a Green Solar Workshop-- Deadline today!!
Blog entry by Ryan Van Lenning.
Last updated at Thu, 3 Feb at 8:48am.

There are more great opportunities in environmental career education in Oakland -- Los EcoAmigos is partnering with the Spanish Speaking Citizen Foundation in Fruitvale. It is just the beginning of a multicultural environmental inclusion that Los EcoAmigos is facilitating.

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Order rain barrels now at a BIG discount, get next week
Article by Meg Bertoni.
Last updated at Fri, 21 Jan at 9:33am.

The city's Watershed and Stormwater Management Rain Barrel Program may not lend itself well to acronyms - COWSMRBP - but it does offer an impactful green lifestyle option at greatly reduced costs to Oakland residents.

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Environmental classes at Oakland's Merritt College explore sustainability, reality of green jobs
Blog entry by Robin Mark Freeman.
Last updated at Fri, 7 Jan at 9:03am.

While the Merritt College Environmental Management and Horticulture programs are helping students to work at the survival of the planet, the programs also are surviving the budget crunch.

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Scrap It! Glenview Elementary students tell everyone how to toss the trash in cute video
Blog entry by Oakland Local edi....
Last updated at Mon, 22 Nov at 10:58pm.

What do you do with garbage? Glenview students make a new video called Scrap it! and show everyone just how to toss the trash. Check it out right here.

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Friends of Sausal Creek: Plant Hikes and workdays this weekend and the following
Blog entry by Friends of Sausal....
Last updated at Fri, 3 Sep at 6:25am.
Plant Hikes:
There is a trail re-routing project in Joaquin Miller Park the weekend of September 10th-12th led by V-O-Cal ( http://v-o-cal.org/ ).  Prior to that weekend, we're going to be salvaging plants for the n
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Richmond CA City Council meets tonight to vote on climate change resolution
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Tue, 2 Feb at 9:54am.

Will Richmond,CA be the first city in the nation to adopt a resolution recognizing 350.org's measure of 350 PPM of CO2 in the atmosphere as the sensible measurement to stave off extreme climate change? 

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