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December 31, 2024

A recycling love story births Urban Ore

Two tiny steps and a 15-minute kiss launched the 40-year marriage of Daniel Knapp and Mary Lou Van Deventer. The couple lives close to the Richmond border in Contra Costa County and are co-founders of Berkeley-based Urban Ore, a material recovery enterprise in operation since 1980. Knapp, 84, is a...
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February 23, 2024

Beyond Spring Cleaning

What the Succulents Say
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October 24, 2023

What the Succulents Say

Legacy gardens tell vast stories. Features of the landscape describe in hills, valleys, soil, rocks, boulders, wetlands, streams and ponds a location’s geographic history. The trees, plants, grasses, flowers, vegetables, fruits, insects and other biological forms of...
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July 7, 2021

Quarantine Fatigue Gets Grilled

The numbers behind outdoor cooking Eager for a change of pace during the pandemic, many consumers made outdoor cooking their go-to activity, extending the art form beyond traditional grilling, or even the traditional grilling season. Consumers spent more...
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July 7, 2021

Hardware for the Handy: What DIY dreams are made of

Some of us realized during the stay-at-home lockdowns the real reason why we can’t croon any DIY home improvement theme songs or figure out which end is up on a hammer. It’s not because we’re too busy...
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July 7, 2021

Design for Living

An interview with Brook Bradbury of Lincoln Park Design During a phone call to arrange this interview, Lincoln Park Design’s Jennifer Walker and Brook Bradbury are quick to remind that their firm’s name is spelled like the 16th...
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July 7, 2021

Permanence

The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Director Noni Session is rarely asked to describe her dream landscape for Oakland and the broader Bay Area. Having demonstrated housing crisis foresight by founding,...
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July 7, 2021

Haute Decor on a Dime

Tips for budget interior decorating I’d just finished introducing a coworker to the pleasure of dancing in formal dress at one of the Gaskell’s Balls held at the Scottish Rites Temple on Lake Merritt. At the stroke of...
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July 7, 2021

Renovation Revelations

  How much does it cost to renovate a house in the Bay Area? It seems the inner monologue of a lot of locals might sound like the Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” on repeat. Is...
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