Camille T. Dungy is author of Suck on the Marrow and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), and co-editor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Dungy has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Cave Canem, and Bread Loaf. She is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

Ocean waves and tidal currents are one of the most untapped and important, clean, cheap, rich, and reliable sources of renewable energy on the earth. UC Berkeley professor Reza Alam and his team at the TAF Lab (Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) have developed a "wave carpet" which can extract the energy of ocean waves and turn it into electricity and freshwater for households and cities. See the Wave Carpet project on the science crowdfunding site, Microryza: http://bit.ly/1eeBFy2 Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian & Phil Ebiner Full story: https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/01/28/seafloor-carpet-catches-waves-to-harness-energy/ ...

Healthy communities grow by leveraging intellectual capital to drive economic development while protecting cultural heritage. In the San Francisco Bay Area, as in other regions where earthquakes occur, success depends in part on the ability to rebound from major earthquakes. But action plans for reducing losses have stalled. Chris Poland will present the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association's (SPUR) Resilient City Initiative. This Initiative is an effort to avoid post-Katrina-type problems by defining the seismic hazards and response performance goals for San Francisco in terms that everyone can understand. SPUR's path and plans will improve San Francisco's ability to recover and are a guide for other cities preparing to cope with disasters. Since 2003, the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory has been hosting public lectures, the Lawson Lectures, on earthquakes and earthquake science. Held every year in April, the lecture series is meant to address a wide variety of earthquake issues of interest to the Berkeley community. http://seismo.berkeley.edu/news/lawson_lecture.html

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