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This Saturday marks a turning point for the Bay Area's sustainability movement.

Morgan Fitzgibbons: Time to Move the Planet

WSJ: What are the Bay Area's most formidable planning issues?

In Defense of Robust Cities

The Bay Area's Rocketship Education is a high-performing elementary network where students spend two hours per day in a computer lab.

Tom Vander Ark: Flex Schools Personalize, Enhance and Accelerate Learning

This decade will see the counties of the Bay Area's wine country and the East Bay growing more quickly than those closer to San Francisco, according to projections released recently by the California Department of Finance.

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Serving the Bay Area's most environmentally-conscious businesses and non-profit organizations for decades, Alfonso reminds us that it wasn't easy to help create the green bandwagon.

Graciela Tiscareno-Sato: Learning From Latinos: San Francisco Green Biz Pioneer Hands Off Company to His Kids

The Bay Area's Rocketship Education is a high-performing elementary network where students spend two hours per day in a computer lab.

Tom Vander Ark: Flex Schools Personalize, Enhance and Accelerate Learning

California's least college-educated counties, meanwhile, encompass the Bay Area's northernmost region, which includes Wine Country along with broad swaths of farmland.

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Amid high unemployment over the past three years, the number of people being served by Second Harvest, one of the Bay Area's largest food banks, has risen 42%.

Demand at Food Bank Soars

Rates at the Bay Area's municipal courses range from $10 for seniors playing at the nine-hole Rancho del Pueblo to more than $50 to play on a weekend at a course like Shoreline in Mountain View.

Public Courses Get Mired in Golfing Slump

Overall, the Bay Area's counties are expected to rank in the slowest-growing half of all counties statewide.

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