The giant terrarium will float on Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA, and will be lit by LED lights from Elemental LED and powered with solar panels. Emeryville, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) December 14, 2010 Elemental LED, a San Francisco Bay Area LED lighting company, recently teamed up with Oakland, CA artists Sarah Filley and Yvette Molina.

By Cecily Burt Zoning. The word alone can make people zone out. But the subject is anything but ho-hum for Oakland city planners who are in the midst of an ambitious and important update of the zoning codes that regulate the type, size, density and height of new developments citywide.

By Angela Hart When Jenn Cordeiro's father died in February after being diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, she and her 7-year-old son, Gabrien, both of Danville, formed "Team Grampa" to raise money and awareness about the air we breathe.

By Anonymous From Staff Reports Human waste is seeping from backed-up toilets in bathrooms behind the Lake Merritt Boating Center, creating a stream that reaches along the patio area to the docks at the edge of the water. A boater said Monday he saw the sewage flow into the lake.

By OAKLAND TRIBUNE FROM STAFF REPORTS OAKLAND -- Only about five of the 30 to 60 gallons released when construction workers unearthed an old heating tank Wednesday morning actually made their way into Lake Merritt, a fire official said.