Clean Air Awards Luncheon 2012

As a student at UC Berkeley Nancy was involved in the City of Berkeley's early efforts to increase recycling and promote energy conservation. During the oil crisis of the late 1970s, Nancy and other activists successfully lobbied the City of Berkeley to establish an Energy Office and a citizen’s Energy Commission. As an appointee to the Energy Commission Nancy helped write RECO and CECO, Berkeley’s ordinances that mandate energy efficient retrofits for residential and commercial buildings. Later as a member of Berkeley’s Solid Waste Management Commission Nancy was instrumental in setting the nation’s first 50% recycling goal, passed by Berkeley voters in 1982.

In 1984 Nancy was elected to the Berkeley City Council—becoming the first and only UC Berkeley student to serve on the Council.

During her term Nancy was responsible for many of Berkeley's groundbreaking environmental policies, such as Berkeley's environmental economic development strategy and waterfront protection policies that led to the establishment of Eastshore State Park. Nancy’s introduction of Berkeley’s 1988 ban on Styrofoam, the first in the nation, was the spark that led McDonald’s to pull Styrofoam out of all of it’s US outlets.

An early champion of integrating economic development with environmental protection, Nancy initiated the ‘green jobs’ training program at Berkeley’s Youth Employment Services and authored the legislation to establish Berkeley’s Community Energy Services Corporation which continues to provide energy efficiency services to small businesses and homeowners throughout the East Bay.

In 1991 Nancy joined the team of writers at Earthworks Press that wrote & published best selling book series—including 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth. She also worked nationally organizing an Environmental Issues Caucus at the National League of Cities and preventing federal preemption of state and local government action to eliminate ozone depleting compounds in the 1990 renewal of the Clean Air Act.

A nationally renowned leader in the fight against global warming, Nancy founded ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, an organization dedicated to helping local governments around the world become environmental leaders. As Executive Director of ICLEI’s US office, Nancy launched the Cities for Climate Protection program —the US movement of Mayors and cities working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that now involves over 500 US cities and counties.

Stan Bunger is a Bay Area native who has informed Northern California radio and television audiences for more than 30 years.

Currently the co-anchor of the KCBS Morning Newswatch, Bunger first joined KCBS in 1982 after working at a number of radio stations in California towns ranging from King City to Sacramento. He was involved in KCBS coverage of numerous major stories, including the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (for which the station won a prestigious Peabody Award) and the 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm.

Bunger spent much of the 1990’s developing a specialty as a high-tech reporter, appearing on KRON-TV’s internationally-distributed program “Next Step”. He returned to All News 740/FM 106.9 KCBS in 2000 and is heard daily from 5:30 to 10 AM. He was elected to the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2010.