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Berkeley and cities across the country are leading the way in the transition from energy systems built on polluting fossil fuels to clean, renewable sources. While state and federal governments wrangle over how to use market and policy mechanisms to make this necessary transition, local governments and school districts - together with their constituents - are demonstrating that we can make this change occur much more quickly by acting where we live and work.
Local support has already enabled the installation of the first solar system at Washington Elementary School. At 103 kW, the solar system is currently the largest array of solar panels in the City!
You can speed the process of putting renewable energy systems in every public school in Berkeley and neighboring cities by offering your financial and in-kind support. Please go the Community Climate FundTM to find out how you can help.
We are grateful to the following donors whose contributions are responsible for making the first solar project at Washington Elementary possible.
SPONSORS
Sun Core: $10,000 and beyond
The Sun Core is the innermost part of the sun where energy is made by billions of nuclear reactions every second.
- DianeTokugawa and Alan Gould
Sun Corona: $5,000 - $9,999
The Corona consists of very thin gas at a temperature greater than one million degrees -- we can see the corona during total eclipses.
Sun Prominence: $1,000-$4,999
Prominences are arcs of gas that erupt from the surface of the Sun. They can loop hundreds of thousands of miles into space and can last for many months.
- Anonymous
- Bernie Clark/Scivian LLC
- Jane + Tom Kelly
- Lisa Lackey
- Juliet Lamont + Phil Price
- Lisa Orselli
- John Petterson, Sequoia Foundation
- Mi-Yung Rhee
Sun Flare: $250-$999
Sun Flares are eruptions of plasma on the surface of the sun. The aurora borealis is a result of flare activity injecting energetic particles into Earth's magnetic field.
- Anonymous
- California Breathing, California Department of Public Health
- Eshone Energy
- Gene + Shelli Oreck
- Fran Rachel
- Nila + Gregory Rosen
Sunbeam: $100-$249
A Sunbeam is a ray of sunlight - and a ray of hope!
- Anonymous
- Jeff Carlock + Dale Hopkins
- Susan Jamart
- Cheryl Kahn
- Jim + Jane Kelly
- Karen Lassen
- Ingrid Madsen + Victor Rauch
- E.S. Moran, Jr. + Catherine Moran
- Donna Rabin
- Jean Radford
- Fred/Margaret/Eddie/Andrea Raineri
- Bruce Riordan
- Residents of Strawberry Creek Lodge, Berkeley
- Adele Torreano
- Zan Turner
- Kam Wong and Kwan F. Wong
- Sudheer + Saudamini Yerabati
Sunspot: $1-$99
Sunspots are caused by huge magnetic fields coming up through the sun's surface and appear dark because they are cooler than the rest of the surface.
- Josh Bradt
- Andrew James Chavez and his new parents Wendy and Peter Moschetti
- Isabel Granger-Frye
- Savitha Hoskote
- Kaitlyn + Julia Kelly
- Ada Frances Moschetti
- Govindrao Pasumarthi + Anitha Pamulaparthi
- Laura Raboff
- Venkatesh + Radhika Ravirala
- Anna, Zarah, Imani + Kaya Saporito
- Sona + Navineet Sethi
- Vikrant Sood
- Alison K. Thomas
- Yvonne Tso
Sunshine-in-Kind
Sunshine-in-Kind contributors have donated their amazing skills, energy and enthusiasm to the project.
- Josh Abrams
- Patricia Algara
- Frank Ansley, artist
- Tom Bates, Mayor, City of Berkeley
- Paul Black, UC Berkeley
- Zuzana Bodikova
- Erica Boismenu
- BUSD School Board
- Ed Canalin
- Jeff Carlock
- Joan Chaplick
- Steve Cheadle
- Civic Actions
- David Clamage, Saulsbury Hill Financial
- Eli Cochran
- Steve Collins, Berkeley Unified School District
- Mark Coplan, Berkeley Unified School District
- Catherine Courtenaye
- Linda Currie
- Christopher Dawe
- James Dawe, Dawe & Christopherson, LLP
- Carie DeRuiter
- Cisco DeVries
- Neal DeSnoo, City of Berkeley
- Drew Dickson, Andrew Lane Wines
- Kim Donahue
- Birch Early
- Eshone Electric, Santa Clara
- Richard Flood, PG&E
- Stuart Fox
- Mark Frye, Berkeley Solar Electric
- Andy Gee (Coro Leadership program)
- Barnali Ghosh
- Tod Hara
- Joshua Herman (Freshman, Monte Vista High School)
- Lou Hexter
- Shanann Higgins
- Geoff Holton
- Yvonne Hung
- Lew Jones, Berkeley Unified School District
- Zoe Kritikos (Junior, Albany High School)
- Barbara Lanier, Attorney at Law + John Wilson
- Alice LaPierre, City of Berkeley
- Michele Lawrence, former Superintendent, BUSD
- Lynn MacMichael + Howard Weamer
- Linda Maio, Berkeley Councilmember
- Mukul Malhotra
- James Mason (Freshman, Monte Vista High School)
- Julia Mason, Senior, Monte Vista High School
- Doug and Lisa Mason (James and Julia's parents)
- Moore Iacofano Goltsman, Inc.
- Steve Nielsen, MuniBond Solar
- Andi Nelson
- Bobby Newell, UC Berkeley
- Kevin Okamoto
- Patti Parisi
- Eric Phillips
- Scott Pinckard, Saulsbury Hill Financial
- Judith Reich
- Pedro Reynoso, Berkeley Unified School District
- Dan Robinson
- Billi Romain, City of Berkeley
- Gregory Rosen, Helio MicroUtility
- Nancy Schimmel
- Sierra Club, Northern Alameda County Chapter
- Eric Smith, Berkeley Unified School District
- Brian Soland
- Vikrant Sood
- Amber Spencer, Berkeley Unified School District
- Dona Spring, Berkeley Councilmember
- Chanita Stevenson, Berkeley Unified School District
- Elizabeth Thompson
- David Daniel Trejo (Senior, Albany High School)
- Yvonne Tso
- Joyce Vollmer
- Washington Elementary parents, teachers and students
- Kriss Worthington, Berkeley Councilmember
