Sustainable Blueprint

Features

Mr. Clean

Michael Wilson wants the chemical industry to make products safe before they get to the market. By Marilyn Berlin Snell
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Slow Food Wrap

At first blush the challenge seemed ridiculous: Turn 50,000 square feet of raw space at San Francisco’s Fort Mason into a gleaming gourmet pavilion. By Stacy Finz
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Delta Dawn

Can one of the state’s most critical ecological resources be saved? By Kerry Tremain
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A Loaf of Bread, A Jug of Wine and A Geothermal Heat Sink

Turning Sonoma County into a laboratory to test new strategies for cooling the globe. By Glen Martin
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Sonoma: Beyond cap-and-trade

If the Cal researchers consulting on Sonoma’s sustainability initiative have their way, the project will shift the greenhouse gas reduction focus away from a free-market approach known as cap-and-trade to more localized, technology-based fixes. By Glen Martin
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Basics of the Sustainability Initiative

The Sonoma County Sustainability Initiative has two broad objectives: establish the county as a landscape-scale laboratory to test greenhouse gas reduction strategies, and greatly reduce carbon emissions within the county.
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Design of The Times

Like D.H. Burnham’s design of a century ago, Lisa Iwamoto’s rendering of a future San Francisco reveals the anxieties of the age. By Eric Simons
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Playing with Blocks

The EcoBlock, which combines multiple environmental technologies, began as an alternative model for development in China (September/October 2006). The first one is scheduled to be built in the coastal city of Qingdao, host to the 2008 Olympic sailing competition and home of Tsingtao beer. But Harrison Fraker’s team at the College of Environmental Design, which developed the model, also hopes it will catch on in cities in California and elsewhere. Team member Lisia Zheng describes here the process of development. By Lisia Zheng
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Cal’s Queen of Green

By Anne Pinckard
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Concrete and Strawberries

The new home of the California Academy of Sciences is more than just a brilliant design. It’s also an inspired collaboration. By Eric Simons
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Praxis

Drilling Down

Tracing the origins of the Javan mud volcano By Madeleine Bair
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The Connected Metabolism

Wireless technology could help diabetics monitor their therapy By Anne Pinckard
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Señoras on The Verge

The surprising link between income and blood pressure By Madeleine Bair
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Big Brother at The Bird Feeder

Ornithologists enlist Web surfers to track species via remote camera By Anne Pinckard
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Hydrogen. What’s Not to Like?

Q & A with chemistry professor Kristie Boering By Timothy Lesle
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Show

National Insecurity

Laurie Anderson’s new show is an ambitious, yet enjoyable, exploration of the American narrative. By Steve Silberman
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…And They Lived Happily Ever after

Romeo and Juliet, as Prokofiev intended. By Georgia Rowe
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Go

A Sauna on Spitsbergen

The captain of the MS Langøysund is a silent, balding man. By Lieve Joris
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All about Spitsbergen

Spitsbergen, which means “jagged peaks” in Dutch, is one of three inhabited islands in the Svalbard archipelago, the northernmost European territory.
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Sather Gate

Iconoplasty

Sather Gate is falling down. But not for long. By Erik Vance
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The Spirit of Pappy

Coach Waldorf had a special affection for the vets on the postwar football teams—and they are still returning it. By Ron Fimrite ‘52
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