I’d love to be enthusiastic about City of Berkeley see it! (not my exclamation mark). There are many good intentions in the interactive website, designed to present both the city’s Climate Action Plan and progress towards realizing its goals. But the site has one of the worst user interfaces I’ve encountered in a long time. [...]
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Berkeley residents donate more on-line
Berkeley donates more money via the Internet than any other city in California, according to a recent report. It also has the nation’s seventh highest donor rate per capita.
The average resident donated $10.64 on-line to charities, according to Convio, a Texas company which organized Internet fundraisers. It has an office in Berkeley.
How does San Francisco [...]
Berkeley versus San Francisco
I’d never heard of Bundle before, but Presh Talwalkar has used the service to figure out whether his decision to live in San Francisco rather than Berkeley made financial sense.
I’m not entirely sure why, but it seems as though a young, single male in the city spends considerably more on food and drink than his [...]
Walking the walk
Keith Skinner has lived in Berkeley, off and on, for nearly 30 years and he likes to walk the city. He recently set up a blog, Berkeley Afoot, to record in words and photos the many walks he makes to and from work — from his home in Westbrae to downtown — and in his [...]
Who turned out the lights?
As the weather seems to get worse by the minute, some people in Berkeley are having power problems. PG&E has a well-designed map interface to find out about power outages all over the state. Of course, if you’re without power you might have difficulty getting access to the site.
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