{"id":1159,"date":"2007-06-03T04:56:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T02:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2007-06-03T04:56:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T02:56:29","slug":"brower-center-breaks-ground-in-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/brower-center-breaks-ground-in-berkeley.html","title":{"rendered":"Brower Center Breaks Ground in Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006803.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/postimages\/toparticle\/6803_toparticlephoto.jpg\" alt=\"Article Photo\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>by Worldchanging San Francisco local blogger, Brian Smith: After seven long years, the David Brower\/Oxford Plaza complex finally broke ground in downtown Berkeley, California. This Center will be a place from which our sustainable future is planned and implemented. A good sign that the project is already on track was the number of young parents with kids who arrived at the groundbreaking ceremony May 23, 2007 on bicycle. I sure was envious of the eco-hip toddlers with cool stickers on their bike helmets. Anyone know where I can get a T-rex sticker? The groundbreaking was a celebration of a man, and a movement, and the end of a difficult planning process described by one of the main planners as \u201cbrain-damaging\u201d in its complexity. When complete, the Brower Center will serve as a home office for the environmental movement, with retail space on the ground floor, meeting rooms, a theater, and 97 units of permanently affordable, and high-quality rental housing near public transportation and jobs. And of course it will be a state of the art, green building. A Man on a Mission The complex is named after the undisputed heavy hitter of the American environmental movement. David Brower\u2019s career spanned&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006803.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Posted by <b>WorldChanging Team<\/b> in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/search\/?category=51&amp;search=Go\">Community<\/a><\/i> at  2:41 PM)<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/worldchanging_fulltext\/~4\/121709224\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Worldchanging San Francisco local blogger, Brian Smith: After seven long years, the David Brower\/Oxford Plaza complex finally broke ground in downtown Berkeley, California. This Center will be a place from which our sustainable future is planned and implemented. A good sign that the project is already on track was the number of young parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}