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		<title>Laney to Turn Food Scraps to Soil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Lin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, July 14th, Laney College&#8217;s &#8220;Throw Down at the Grow Down&#8221; event launches the college&#8217;s new &#8220;Scraps to Soil&#8221; initiative to encourage students, staff, and faculty to turn food and paper “waste” into valuable soil for local farms, as well as for the campus garden (located between the Bistro and the Lake Merritt estuary ...]]></description>
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		<title>Peralta&#8217;s Earth Day Teach-In and Big Tent Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Earth Day, the Peralta Colleges will salute the environment by doing what we do best at Peralta: teaching. On Thursday, April 28 Peralta is celebrating Earth Day by inviting faculty across the district and across all disciplines to dedicate their classroom teaching that day to themes relating to environmental sustainability, and if possible, opening ...]]></description>
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		<title>350 Neighbors and Friends Party and Work at Laney Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Lin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 350 people from throughout the East Bay met at the Laney College this Sunday for a work party to revitalize and improve the Community Garden. It was one of 7,400 other carbon-cutting events around the world showing our communities and our leaders that Sustainability movement continues to rally and fight for Climate Justice. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Laney Garden Gets Big Boost on 10/10/10</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Lin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fed up with all the hot air around climate change? Then roll up your sleeves and get down and dirty Oakland-style, with hundreds of your friends and neighbors on Sunday, October 10th, at Laney College! (Sign-Up! Post to Facebook!) We&#8217;ll revitalize Laney College&#8217;s community garden, offer skills-building workshops, pass the mic to dynamic speakers, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Panels Begin to Populate the Hillside</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Lin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merritt College — Last week Chevron Energy Solutions subcontractors Legacy Roofing and Waterproofing (San Jose, CA) began mounting a truckload of shiny new SunTech 210 solar PV panels on to steel structures anchored into the hillside next to the Merritt College Track &#38; Field. By Friday, the contractors will have finished mounting and fastening nearly ...]]></description>
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		<title>Engineering Staff Tighten Operations Schedules</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Lin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Spring semester comes to a close, and the District faces an estimated $12M budget shortfall, Peralta operating engineers tightens the operating schedule of heating, air conditioning, and lighting systems to be lean as possible through the summer. &#8220;We&#8217;re shutting everything down on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, all the way through the end of ...]]></description>
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		<title>200 Cyclists Roll By Laney College</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 03:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second straight year, Sustainability Organizer Jack Lin staffed a energizer station in front of Laney College on Bike to Work Day. While counting the number of cyclists who passed the 9th and Fallon Street intersection, Mr. Lin also gave passing cyclists musette bags as a token of appreciation for riding their bikes to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Laney Instructor Lives by the Bike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 23:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Lin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nikki Ellman teaches ESL at Laney College, and she is one of the most devote bike commuters in the Peralta community. Two or three times a week, she hops on her mountain bike, complete with cargo toting panier bags, and rides 5 miles from her Berkeley home to Laney College. A full-time faculty member, Ms. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Earth Day</title>
		<link>http://sustainableperalta.org/2010/04/happy-earth-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Lin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Earth Day, honor our planet by learning more about it. Visit and read&#8230; 100 Places most threatened by Climate Change. The Story of Stuff Earth Day articles at Treehugger.com Sophisticated thinking and writing about sustainability issues at Grist.org]]></description>
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		<title>Merritt Solar PV Construction Begins</title>
		<link>http://sustainableperalta.org/2010/04/merritt-solar-pv-construction-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Lin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merritt College – Construction for Peralta&#8217;s first ever solar photovolatic project begins in earnest as Peralta heads into Spring Break. With students, faculty and staff away for the week, Chevron Energy Solutions will begin moving construction trailers, fencing, and heavy equipment onto parking lots and hillside where the structures supporting 1.2MW worth of solar panels ...]]></description>
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