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SJ Q&A: Heather Lerner, Happy Hollow Foundation
CommunityEnvironmentLocalNews Sep 30, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon 1 Comments
In 2009, Lerner became the first ever Executive Director in the Foundation’s 54 year history and has since worked to help secure funding to advance Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, a nationally-accredited zoo perceived as one of the top animal facilities in the world.
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Bike Sharing Coming to San Jose
CommunityEnvironmentPolitics Jul 03, 2012, by Kim Diaz 1 Comments
VTA is partnering with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to establish a new bike sharing program. The program, set to launch Oct. 1, will offer 1,000 rental bikes across the Bay area, with about 400 in San Jose, Mountain View and Palo Alto. Each bike will have high-tech features that include smart cards, wireless internet solar powered stations and GPS technology.
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Review: TEDx in San Jose
BusinessEnvironmentNews Apr 18, 2012, by Josh Koehn 1 Comments
Walter De Brouwer is not like most people. If he was, most people would be Belgian. Most people would also be described as someone “who thinks thoughts that may have never been thought before.’
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Egg Consumers Fooled by Misleading Labels
BusinessCommunityEnvironment Apr 12, 2012, by Alastair Bland 2 Comments
Call sparkling wine made outside of France’s designated region “champagne” and risk a lawsuit from the Comite Interprofessional du Vin de Champagne. Call a conventionally grown potato “organic,” and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s enforcement branch may show up at the door as soon as it unearths the fraud. But raise a chicken in a cage, and feel free to make almost any claim to sell the bird’s eggs.
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San Jose delays ban on Styrofoam Containers
BusinessCommunityEnvironmentLocalNewsPolitics Apr 04, 2012, by Josh Koehn 3 Comments
For more than a year, city officials looked at following up San Jose’s single-use plastic bag ban with an anti-EPS ordinance. (EPS stands for expanded polystyrene, otherwise known as foam to-go containers at restaurants.) Less than 1 percent of the Bay Area’s EPS is recyclable because of food contamination—the only facility capable is Newby Island in Milpitas—so the nonbiodegradable containers are left to stack in landfills and break apart, often choking animals.
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New Electric Car Dealership in Santa Clara
BusinessCommunityEnvironment Mar 21, 2012, by Brendan Nystedt 3 Comments
I put the hammer down at the CODA representative’s cue. The car responds quickly, doling out a near-excessive amount of speed. It’s a neighborhood, so I ease off the pedal. The regenerative brakes kick in and start to slow the car a bit. I don’t really care how fast we’re going—I’m focused on the chassis and the ride—but as we continue the drive, I find myself drawn back to the accelerator: I’m startled how fast 134 electrically-charged horses can push. What brought me into the electric car’s cockpit, cruising down Stevens Creek Boulevard, is the new CODA dealership—the only one of its kind in Northern California.
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SJ Q&A: Katie Heaney, San Jose Bike Party
CommunityEnvironmentSports Jan 29, 2012, by Hayley Benham-Archdeacon
San Jose Bike Party organizer Katie Heaney joined Bike Party when the monthly ride was a group made up of barely 100 riders. Since that ride over three years ago, Katie has become Bicycle Information Resource Director and has assisted with planning routes, going on test rides and choosing monthly themes.
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Plastic Bag Ban Part of a Larger Trend
BusinessCommunityEnvironmentPolitics Jan 11, 2012, by Josh Koehn 1 Comments
The complexity of San Jose’s plastic bag ban, which went into effect Jan. 1, has less to do with any potential fallout as where and how the ban is being implemented.
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Oenophiles who consume $230 magnums at Silicon Valley’s top restaurants may be unaware that one “rock star” winemaker currently finds himself in hot water. This past October, in a rare instance of a local politician speaking out publicly against a member of the North Bay’s influential winemaking community, Sonoma County Supervisor Efren Carrillo lambasted winemaker Paul Hobbs for uprooting hundreds of trees in Sebastopol and adding one more open wound to a Russian River watershed already impacted by erosion and sediment. According to several Silicon Valley sommeliers, Paul Hobbs wines are among the most popular in the area’s top-tier restaurants.
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New Planet Just Like San Jose?
Environment Dec 05, 2011, by Josh Koehn
The science world is buzzing about the new Earth-like planet discovered Monday. The planet, Kepler 22b, is more than twice the size of Earth and circles a star that is supposedly similar in size and warmth to our solar system’s sun. What has NASA nerds so interested in the planet, however, is the 72-degree average temperature.
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