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Environment: Greenpeace cofounder says sustainable future includes nuclear energy
Monday, December 11, 4 p.m., Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Ctr.
Patrick Moore, a leader in the international environmental field for over 30 years, will give a special lecture titled "Searching For a Sustainable Energy Future," sponsored by Berkeley's department of nuclear engineering.. . .
Film: Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood"
Wednesday, Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m., Pacific Film Archive
In his audacious 1957 adaptation of Macbeth, Kurosawa captures the power and emotional grandeur of the original — without using a word of Shakespeare's language. He instead relies on the aesthetics of Noh theater and his own visual and cinematic invention to evoke the Bard's themes of destruc. . .
Sustainability: Conserving energy vs. limiting power
Wednesday, December 13, 10 a.m., 465 Soda Hall
The vast majority of the research on power management to date has focused on energy conservation. However, many researchers are now starting to address the next key challenge: limiting power consumption to a less-than-peak power budget with minimal performance degradation.. . .
Lecture: "Past Tents - The Way We Camped"
Thursday, December 14, 7 p.m., Hearst Museum Gallery
Susan Snyder, head of services for the Bancroft Library and author of "Bear in Mind: The California Grizzly," offers a lighter look at Americans' infatuation with the great outdoors. Mining once again the vast archives at the Bancroft Library, Snyder has mapped out this cheeky yet accurate. . .
Symposium: CITRIS and engineering a better world
Thursday, December 14, 1-5:30 p.m., Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Eng. Ctr.
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Service of Society (CITRIS) is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a symposium devoted to "The Role of University Research in California's Future," featuring UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and other expert panelists includin. . .
Dance: Berkeley City Ballet performs the Nutcracker
Friday-Sunday, Dec. 15-17, Zellerbach Playhouse | Tickets
The Berkeley City Ballet will bring the holiday season's most beloved ballet to life, with the help of guest artists from the Oakland Ballet and Lines Ballet. Composed a decade before the turn of the 20th century by Tchaikovsky, "The Nutcracker" follows a blonde German girl named Clara an. . .
Classic film: Kurosawa's seminal, satirical "Yojimbo"
Sunday, Dec. 17, 4 p.m., Pacific Film Archive
In this tongue-in-cheek anti-epic by famed Japanaese director Akira Kurosawa, which inspired Eastwood's later "A Fistful of Dollars," Toshiro Mifune plays a boisterous, bullying, amoral ronin (masterless samurai). He calls himself simply Sanjuro (“Thirty Years Old”). When Sanj. . .