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On a visit to Berkeley and LBNL this week, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet emphasized the value of collaboration between her nation and the state of California. Now that democracy has taken firm root in her nation, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet came to Berkeley Thursday in search of solutions to one of the fast-developing nation's most pressing challenges: how to provide its own energy.

Officials will gather today (Tuesday, April 29) to celebrate the University of California, Berkeley's first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-silver certified building - the Haste Street Child Development Center - which also is the state's first freestanding LEED-silver certified child care center.

Reflecting the growing importance of sustainability on campus, Berkeley’s fifth annual summit on the issue is expanding to a half-day, with workshops on everything from greening your own life to the energy frontier far beyond fossil fuels.

In a half-day meeting, more than 500 participants take stock of progress and challenges, small and large, in the student-fueled movement to green the UC Berkeley campus

At Richmond's industrial waterfront, leaders of UC Berkeley, four East Bay cities, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab pledged to join forces to make their region a leader in green research and industry.

The Molecular Foundry, a nanotechnology research facility located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has received a U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification. This is the first gold certification awarded to a building in the City of Berkeley.

Can a new type of "gated community" reverse China's ecological debacle?

Seeking a silver lining in the destruction wrought by last December's tsunami, a team of UC Berkeley students and professors spent a month in Thailand this summer working with local counterparts to design a strategic plan for developing sustainable tourism in southern Thailand's Krabi province.

The rapid urbanization of flood-prone lands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta -- the water supply for nearly 23 million Californians and habitat for more than 30 fish species -- will be the focus of an upcoming conference at the University of California, Berkeley.

Urban development in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta poses a major threat to the Delta's health and sustainability, according to a report released today by the University of California, Berkeley-based Delta Initiative.