Another New Emeryville Blog: In Emeryville

Another blog has popped up in Emeryville called In Emeryville… and it looks like a great resource. Here’s a description from their site:

In Emeryville is about fresh, in-depth local news coverage. Honest stories and honest perspectives. Listening to community voices, and reporting on them so others can hear too.

But what we’re really about is you—the people who live, work and study in Emeryville.

We are six women journalists who share a passion for community reporting and a knack for multimedia storytelling. We’re graduate students at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and our project is funded in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation.

Have an issue your neighbors should know about? Want to recommend a hidden gem in Emeryville? Or invite us to your high school football game (we’re already fans!)? We welcome your feedback on our stories and your suggestions for new ones.

And we look forward to seeing you around town … in Emeryville.

22nd Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition

The 22nd Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition is currently in progress, featuring works from local Emeryville artists. Be sure to check it out and show your support!

5815 Shellmound Way Emeryville, CA 94608
emeryarts@aol.com
510-652-6122
Open Daily 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
October 4-26, 2008

A New Emeryville Blog has Popped Up

The Secret News. Not sure what to think exactly, seems to be run by conspiracy theorists with bags over their heads. ;)

And they copied my post without even a little mention. But regardless, I do respect people voicing their opinions and the more information available to you, the reader, the better off you are in forming your own opinions.

Emeryville Home to New DOE Bioenergy Research Center

The Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a $125 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Research Center, has announced an agreement with Wareham Development to lease space at EmeryStation East, a new state-of-the-art laboratory building in Emeryville, CA.

Jay Keasling, the CEO of JBEI, and his team of 150 students and scientists is engineering bacteria to convert waste-plant material (cornstalks, wheat chaff) into the hydrocarbons (the petroleum products) our economy relies upon. They're already making small amounts of jet fuel.

“We have very high hopes for JBEI in our quest for major scientific breakthroughs needed to make biofuels a commercially viable alternative to imported oil and other fossil fuels,” Orbach said. “It is our hope that this modern laboratory space in EmeryStation East, located in the heart of Biotech Country in San Francisco’s East Bay, will be a crucible for transformational discovery.”

JBEI is a partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) whose mission is to speed the development of renewable biofuels – liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass. JBEI’s other partners are Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California campuses of Berkeley and Davis, and the Carnegie Institution.

Sources: NSTI, Esquire

Family Friendly Club Opens in Emeryville

Instead of video games and bad food like Chuck E. Cheese, Blue Sky in Emeryville offers good, organic food with activities such as Arts & Crafts and a climbing wall.

Read Amy Graff’s review at the SF Chronicle.