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Designed by San Francisco-based WRT Design, the building was named after the prominent environmentalist David Brower and is also one of only 30 in the San Francisco Bay Area to secure LEED Platinum. The facility includes 50,000 square feet of office space, public education space, and a restaurant. The Center also provides rental office space…

While many artists are looking to make their mark, eco-artist Daniel McCormick tries to do just the opposite. The Bay Area artist, who holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental design from UC Berkeley, installs sculptures in eroded gullies and riverbanks to restore damaged ecosystems, hoping that after a few years, every trace of his craft…

It’s all about the materials. That was my impression after previewing a new exhibit featuring the work of ecological artist Daniel McCormick. Methods and Materials: Ecological Art in Practice opens January 27 at the Hazel Wolf Gallery in the David Brower Center in Berkeley. The pieces are bold, textural, and definitely organic. Towering columns created…

The David Brower Center is giving guests a unique opportunity to take part in art beyond just viewing it. Award-winning ecological artist Daniel McCormick’s latest creation is on display at the David Brower Center, whose new exhibit will display examples of McCormick’s unique work in which he fuses art with the environment around him. From…

A radiant heating and cooling system is at the forefront of the David Brower Center’s sustainable features. Buildings don’t get much more sustainable than the David Brower Center in Berkeley, Calif. The nonprofit facility bills itself as an inspiring home for environmental and social action by combining both offices and program facilities in a 50,000-sq.-ft.…

The 45,000 ft2 Brower Center has received a LEED Platinum rating with a score of 55 out of 60 possible. It is the first building of its kind in Berkeley and one of fewer than 10 such buildings in northern California. The Center includes a restaurant, meeting rooms, a theater, and office space for environmental…

Sculptor Reuben Margolin, determined to use natural materials for a kinetic “Wave” sculpture at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, searched fruitlessly in local parks for tule reeds, which American Indians once used to build. Finally, his father, publisher and scholar of Indians Malcolm Margolin, directed him to Charlie Kennard, a British-born Marin County basketmaker…

Did you know that 28,000 42-gallon barrels of oil are consumed every two minutes in the United States? How about that 270,000 sharks are killed worldwide everyday for their fins? Yeah, neither did I until recently, and it’s not difficult to imagine why. Though staggering statistics such as these seem to constantly play on repeat…

A quick glance at the tenant directory in the lobby of the David Brower Center reveals that the four-story structure in downtown Berkeley, California, is not a typical office building. Names like the Earth Island Institute, the Green Jobs Network, and the Bay Area Open Space Council, give visitors a clue that the 30 organizations…

To mark the opening of “Water, Rivers and People (Agua, Ríos y Pueblos),” a photography exhibition about people’s relationship with rivers and their struggle to protect them from destructive dams, mining projects, and other threats, International Rivers held a panel discussion with two of the exhibit’s photographers and two river activists. One of the main…