Livable Berkeley

Climate Action Plan

Berkeley's Climate Action Plan was adopted by the City Council on June 2. From here, Livable Berkeley will be working to help implement Climate Action programs to make the Plan the success. Contact us to get involved!

In November 2006, Berkeley voters issued a bold call to action on global warming - to reduce our entire community's greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050. To achieve this goal, the city developed a Climate Action Plan. Find out more...

Livable Berkeley Bike Sharing Committee

Bring bike sharing to Berkeley! Livable Berkeley has formed a committee with UC Green Bike Share http://greenbikeshare.net/ to develop a bike sharing program for the campus and the city. Bike sharing is an alternative transportation program where bike kiosks are set up at intervals along major corridors and riders can pick up and drop off bicycles in seconds. Be a part of this project to put a great idea into action in Berkeley! The next meeting of the committee is will be in late July. Contact info@livableberkeley.org to rsvp.

Downtown Area Plan

On November 29, 2007, DAPAC (the Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee) adopted a draft Downtown Area Plan. The Plan is now being considered by the City Council.

Update: On June 9 the City Council made their recommendation to staff to improve the provisions for greater density and sustainability in the Downtown. The Downtown Plan will come before the Council again on July 7.

Downtown Plan website:

http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=832

Take Councilmember Jesse Arreguin's survey about the Downtown at:

www.cityofberkeley.info/council4

Bus Rapid Transit Project

Livable Berkeley supports Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and has been working with the Friends of BRT to advocate for the system in Berkeley. BRT will reduce auto pollution and emissions of global-warming gases as well as decrease the number of cars clogging East Bay arteries. Please show your support and help make fast, efficient bus service a reality for the San Leandro-Berkeley corridor!

http://sanfranciscobay.sierraclub.org/chapter/takeaction/brt2009.htm

Livable Berkeley Poll

Newswire

You're Not an Environmentalist if You're Also a NIMBY

As both Berkeley and Oakland debate their downtown plans, there is growing recognition that the fight against global warming requires greater urban density.

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Car-Free Times Square

New York's famous Times Square has become more pedestrian-friendly, with city officials banning cars from stretches of Broadway.

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Capturing the Value of Transit

Now may be a great time to use innovative methods for funding development around transit. Portland and Denver are just two communities that have seen property values rise around rail.

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Castro District Tries Out a Pedestrian Plaza

The 17th Street project is the first of San Francisco's "pavement-to-parks program" in which the traditional use of streets to carry cars is being rethought.

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BART Lays Out Ambitious Plans for New Railcars

BART has plans to spend $3.4 billion on 700 new cars that will replace the current 669 and will carry more people, move passengers through stations faster, and meet the needs of suburban and urban riders.

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Noteworthy Events

Join A Local Climate Change Action Group

2530 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA US

Learn how to become a climate change leader in your household and commmunity and facilitate an action group. Four free sessions at the Berkeley Ecology Center. Classes ongoing through 2009

January 1, 2009 12:00pm - December 31, 2009 12:00pm

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