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From Obama's signature to my laptop: A cool way to calculate the cost/benefit of solar for my very own home
By Andrew Leonard
November 6, 2009
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Those darn Scandinavians lead the world in "life satisfaction" and super-expensive "nanny states." Could they get any more annoying?
By Andrew Leonard
May 15, 2009
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An innovative plan to promote residential solar power installations gains momentum.
By Andrew Leonard
April 17, 2009
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Greg Mortenson has devoted his life to building schools in Central Asia -- with a little help along the way from a Pakistani in a Berkeley copy shop.
By Andrew Leonard
April 7, 2009
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A real stunner: Barack Obama out-polls Alan Keyes by more than a thousand votes.
By Andrew Leonard
October 31, 2008
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Water rationing arrives in Berkeley, Calif. Ho hum. Tell it to the Ethiopians
By Andrew Leonard
August 7, 2008
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Guess whose name kept popping up at elementary and middle school commencement ceremonies in Berkeley, California? Hint: It wasn't John McCain's
By Andrew Leonard
June 13, 2008
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Alex Farrell dedicated his life to solving some of the hardest problems humanity faces on this planet. He will be sorely missed.
By Andrew Leonard
April 18, 2008
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From Botswana to Berkeley, calculating the cost-benefit value of harnessing the sun calls for a new kind of accounting.
By Andrew Leonard
February 22, 2008
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The U.S. Senate!
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 15, 2008
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The City Council retracts letter dubbing the Marines "unwanted intruders."
By Katharine Mieszkowski
February 13, 2008
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While Washington politicians bicker about the blame for record oil prices, the People's Republic of Berkeley takes care of business.
By Andrew Leonard
November 9, 2007
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Everyone is all smiles when Gov. Schwarzenegger and Big Oil come to Berkeley bearing half a billion dollars.
By Andrew Leonard
February 1, 2007
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A word of clarification from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
By Andrew Leonard
December 13, 2006
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Where federal regulators dare not tread.
By Andrew Leonard
December 12, 2006
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Magnetic North: Staying conscious enough just to hit replay
By Andrew Leonard
October 20, 2006
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Andrew Martinez led an amusing crusade to be nude that taught me about body acceptance.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
May 22, 2006
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Even in Berkeley, each person's vote matters. And it feels good to wait in line.
By Andrew Leonard
November 2, 2004
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As President Bush all but declared war on Iraq, journalists Christopher Hitchens and Mark Danner thrashed out the big issues that the country should have months ago.
By Gary Kamiya
January 30, 2003
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Michael Lerner and Cornel West have teamed up to combat the pro-Israel lobby. But so far Ariel Sharon isn't losing sleep over it.
By Anthony York
April 12, 2002
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The peace-loving people of Berkeley believe that fighting evil makes one evil.
By David Rieff
October 19, 2001
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Antiwar sentiment still runs deep in cities like Berkeley, Madison and Cambridge. But peace activists are being confronted by a strong wave of pro-war patriotism.
By Damien Cave
October 19, 2001
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The conservative columnist defends his views in the former Mecca of free speech. No chairs are thrown, but a mike mysteriously goes dead.
By Cary Tennis
March 16, 2001
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Berkeley's Experimental Computing Club has produced some of the Net's most cherished software.
By Ed Frauenheim
December 4, 2000
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Kary Mullis revolutionized genetic research but thumbs his nose at the scientific establishment. It thumbs its nose right back.
By William Speed Weed
March 29, 2000
Stimulus at work: Berkeley's SolarMap
A new front in Berkeley vs. the Marine Corps 
Remembering the "Naked Guy"
The great debate
Love-bombing bin Laden
Bringing the war home
Late night with David Horowitz
Free Photoshop for the people
Glenn Greenwald
War Room