The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
PROJECTS
The Flatlands’ War on Poverty
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
The Asian Community Library
The Black Panthers’ Education Revolution
The Integral Urban House
The Countercultural Kitchen
A Place for Every Body
The Secret History of Recycling
Pacific Center
Threads of Rebellion
Citizens vs. Developers
The Women and Girls of Telegraph Ave
Berkeley’s Public Schools
The Rainbow Sign
The Third World Liberation Front
Transgender Berkeley
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Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
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Telegraph Avenue
The Keystone
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Documents Tagged ‘Recycling’
Clarifying the Record on Recycling
Archive Entry Date: 10/26/83
A glance into the complexities and tone of the 80's recycling wars
Berkeley Gets State Grant for Expansion
Archive Entry Date: 12/28/79
The multiplicity of organizations narrowed as recycling developed into an industry
Recycling Board Game
Archive Entry Date: 09/15/1979
Cliff Humphrey suggested that you take your Monopoly board game and re-purpose it
Kathy Evans Reflects on the Ecology Center
Archive Entry Date: c.1979
Kathy served as its head for two decades, overseeing a huge transition
Free Curbside Pickup Recycles Berkeley’s Old Newspapers
Archive Entry Date: 11/15/74
A year in, the Ecology Center struggled to keep running its newspaper recycling program
Waste Management Commission’s Recommendations for Recycling
Archive Entry Date: 3/8/73
The City of Berkeley calculated that newspaper curbside pickup was a good financial investment
Here’s How to Recycle at the Co-Op Center
Archive Entry Date: 05/72
Though Ecology Action's founders left Berkeley, others kept recycling alive in the city
Recycling Needs Your Help
Archive Entry Date: c. 1971-72
Ecology Action, "swamped" by recycling, asked the public to pressure the city for more resources
New Center at Grove St and Dwight Way
Archive Entry Date: c.1970-72
Flyer by mystery organization to "lighten load" on other site
Ecology Action News Release
Archive Entry Date: 10/20/70
Announcing the beginning of a new recycling center — in Modesto
Recycle and Bicycle
Archive Entry Date: 05/70
How to address the threat to the environment? Be a wise consumer and rethink waste
Contra Costa Recycling
Archive Entry Date: 1970
Seniors collect newspapers by hand in pickup truck
?Recycling?
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
A flyer from a parent-run recycling center at a school
Save! Sort! Set Out!
Archive Entry Date: c. 1970
A draft of a recycling logo, from Ecology Action
Composting in the City
Archive Entry Date: 1970s
How to set up your own compost, according to Ecology Action
Newspaper Troubles
Archive Entry Date: c. 1969
With good reason, newspaper was the first to be recycled
College Students Dumping Litter Ceremoniously
Archive Entry Date: 5/6/69
DVC students hoped, at their Ecology Fair, to stir their fellow students' consciences
Early Recycling at UC Berkeley
Archive Entry Date: 1969
Young people learning how to sort reusable materials