Water Conservation Showcase2011 Showcase Theme: Saving Water in Existing Buildings. Join us in our 8th year as we bring together experts, exhibitors, and interested community members together to discuss the latest in water conservation in the built environment. This year's Showcase will focus on water conservation in existing buildings. Explore cutting edge ...
Few people realize that celebrated actor Danson has devoted himself to heading off a global catastrophe: the destruction of our oceanic bio-systems and the collapse of the world's major fisheries. Danson discusses his journey from joining a local protest to founding the world's largest organization focused solely on ocean conservation.Speaker: Ted ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and BiologyThe Molecular Foundry is a Department of Energy-funded program providing support to researchers from around the world whose work can benefit from or contribute to nanoscience. Through unparalleled access to state-of-the-art instruments, materials, technical expertise and training, the Foundry provides researchers with the tools to enhance the development and understanding ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Dobsonian Telescope MakingBuild a telescope the Dobson way. You will learn about John Dobson and his reflector telescopes, as well as how these telescopes work. You'll learn the step-by-step method for grinding and polishing the mirror, building the mount, and assembling a complete telescope. Seeing the rings of Saturn, the moons of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $170 + materials & supplies
Resilient Cities: Creating a Livable WorldThroughout his long and honored career in urban design, planning, and architecture, Peter Calthorpe has been a pioneer of innovative approaches to urban revitalization, suburban growth, and regional planning. In his groundbreaking work, he shows how regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $12 General, $10 Members & Seniors
Via trade and other cultural activities, "ideas have sex," and that drives human history in the direction of inconstant but accumulative improvement over time. The criers of havoc keep being proved wrong. A fundamental optimism about human affairs is deeply rational and can be reliably conjured with.Trained at Oxford as ...
LIFE REDEFINED: Microbes Built with ArsenicLife can survive in many harsh environments, from extreme heat to the presence of deadly chemicals. However, life as we know it has always been based on the same six elements -- carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfur and phosphorus. Now it appears that even this ...
