OFF CAMPUS EVENTS - 2011

Meet Your Neighbors: One Cubic Foot Underneath the Golden Gate Bridge

December 7, 2011 (6:30-8PM) @ Brower Center, Berkeley

From transparent jellyfish to leaping dolphins, the San Francisco Bay is one of the most diverse and fascinating neighborhoods in our region. Join celebrated photographer David Liittschwager, and dolphin and porpoise researcher Bill Keene for an exciting conservation. Free and open to the public. RSVP by contact@browercenter.org or (510) 809-0900 ext. 116.

EcoHouse Tour
November 19, 2011 (10 AM-1PM)@ 1305 Hopkins St, Berkeley

Visit EcoHouse to see the first permitted residential constructed wetland/greywater system in California. Space is limited. Pre-register by 5pm on Friday, November 18. $15 general, $10 EC members, but no one turned away for lack of funds. For more information contact 510-548-2220 x239 or register@ecologycenter.org.

Join avid nature-lovers as they clean up a local shoreline and help the environment. Prizes will be handed out for the most unusual item found and the best dressed bucket contest! Gloves, tools and instruction provided, but bring your own bucket. Free T-shirt to all participants. RSVP required.

This panel features Sandy Mendler of Mithun; Robert L. Thayer, Jr., author and landscape architecture professor emeritus; and Sim van der Ryn, author and UC Berkeley architecture emeritus professor. Together, they explore the future of sustainable design, with a focus on how to strive toward regenerative design solutions to envision a positive future. Free event. Register online.

Join us for the first of three major events in "Urban Housing, Economy, and Transit: Confronting a Crisis," a 2011-12 conference series on sustainability hosted by UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design and Berkeley Law | Boalt Hall. Berkeley students, faculty and staff may attend free of charge. Advanced registration required.

Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $10 billion fresh tomato industry. After reading Tomatoland, we should never look at a tomato the same way again -- or settle for inferior produce.

Interested in obtaining the LEED Green Associate accreditation but don't know how? USGBC-NCC is hosting a one-day workshop that will review everything you need to know to successfully pass the exam.

In this exhibition, SPUR surveys the likely impacts of climate change to the San Francisco Bay Area, which will worsen over the next 100 years and beyond. We also recommend more than 30 adaptation strategies for minimizing our region’s vulnerabilities to the potentially catastrophic effects of uncontrolled global warming.