How L.A. rainfall could meet half its water needs

Mention "Los Angeles" and "water" in the same sentence and Northern Californians hear a giant flushing sound.

...But a slow change is creeping over the Southland. Ever on the lookout for the next new thing, and facing a price tag of billions of dollars to clean up the polluted mess its waterways have become, L.A. is embracing a radical idea: save and use its own rainwater instead of everyone else's.

Sunday, May 26, 2002
The Sacramento Bee

Toward cooler, quieter, energy-efficient portable classrooms

Approximately two million children in California attend school in relocatable classrooms, also known as portables. Are these buildings as environmentally healthy and energy-efficient as they can be? Berkeley Lab scientists recently tested an experimental ventilation system that would improve indoor air quality in portable classrooms and use a third of the energy of current systems.

August 26, 2002
Berkeley Lab Science Beat

This article is also referenced by the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities

Buying it in bulk, the energy-efficient way

Look around your office and notice all of the appliances that use energy. How many of them were purchased in the last five years? How many of those were the most energy-efficient product available? Now think about how many more appliances -- computers, printers, microwaves -- you will buy in the next several years. How much energy could be saved if every one of those is highly efficient?

August 26, 2002
Berkeley Lab Science Beat

The Way to Daylight

Long after the backhoes break up the concrete, a daylighted creek grows into a community.

For more than 50 years, Poinsett Park was a 250-foot-long triangle of grass, squeezed on a hillside between Rosalind and Poinsett Avenues in El Cerrito, California. The park covered a culvert that had Baxter Creek running through it. By the late 1980s, when the culvert started to fail and city officials planned to replace the park’s storm drain, local residents had another idea: uncover 250 feet of the creek — “daylight” it.

Fall 2002
Terrain Magazine

World Champion Honeymooners
September 6, 2002 - Berkeley Lab Currents

High School Students Come Face to Face with Science
August 9, 2002 - - Berkeley Lab Currents

Summer Internships Benefit Students and Researchers Alike
July 26, 2002 - Berkeley Lab Currents

Lithography Takes Center Stage
July 12, 2002 - Berkeley Lab Currents

Women's endorsements heat up March elections
December 19, 2001 - The Berkeley Daily Planet

Shooting star show expected Sunday
November 16, 2001 - The Berkeley Daily Planet

Davis says Bay's bridges are targets
November 2, 2001 - The Berkeley Daily Planet

NASA satellite discovers rare gamma-ray burst
November 9, 2001 - The Berkeley Daily Planet

Berkeley prof analyzes structural damage of the WTC
October 20, 2001 - The Berkeley Daily Planet

Town prepares to battle university over growth plans
October 5, 2001 - The Berkeley Daily Planet

During my Summer 2000 internship as a research assistant in the Indoor Environment Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab I collaborated on original research in modeling the flow of indoor air pollutants. The research was published as Rapidly Locating and Characterizing Pollutant Releases in Buildings, in the Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, December 2002.

On Saturday night, April 14th, 1894, fire ripped nearly unchecked through part of downtown Santa Cruz, and frantic citizens found they could do little more than haul as many possessions as they could carry to safety.