The population of older adults in Berkeley will double by 2030, resulting in 1 in 5 adults being over 65 years of age. The Age Friendly Berkeley initiative helps prepare Berkeley for its rapidly growing aging population by gathering input from the community and pulling together public and private leaders, resources, and strategies to address the issues raised.   The Age…

The Berkeley Existing Buildings Electrification Strategy lays out research and recommendations on how to address the climate crisis through beneficial electrification: the replacement of gas appliances (furnaces, water heaters, cooking ranges and stoves, dryers, etc.) with clean, safe, and highly efficient all-electric alternatives in a way that results in reduced greenhouse gas emissions, more…

In 2006, Berkeley voters issued a call to action on the climate change challenge by overwhelmingly endorsing ballot Measure G to reduce our entire community’s greenhouse gas emissions by 80% below 2000 levels by 2050. The Berkeley Climate Action Plan was…

With transportation responsible for 60% of Berkeley’s greenhouse gas emissions, carbon neutrality cannot be achieved without electric mobility.  Cleaner electricity, now available through Ava Community Energy, combined with state and local commitments to 100% renewable electricity by 2045, gives electrification tremendous promise. The Berkeley…

The goals, policies and guidelines from Berkeley’s adopted plans were organized into a series of streamlined project “evaluation criteria.” These evaluation criteria were weighted relative to one another based on public responses to a survey administered citywide in Spring 2016.The transportation-related improvements recommended in Berkeley’s adopted plans were then grouped into projects – both…