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16 Stroke Treatments Current therapies, emerging trends By ashley johnson

18 Eco-Friendly Car Care

Auto repair shops make a grimy business gleam By alan lopez

20 Green Bloggers

Online writers share their insights By laura wasserman

Departments 7 Grown Local /Evergreen Acres 10 Living Smart /Green Camping Gear 13 Path to Wellness /Bowen Therapy

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Late last year, my friend Alena, who is only 52 years old, suffered a stroke while she was sleeping. She woke up with half of her body numb and unable to move. Her story shocked and frightened me because I thought that stroke was a disease that affected older, overweight smokers with high blood pressure—people like my grandmother, who had two severe ones.

I was wrong. According to the American Stroke Association, this year more than 100,000 U.S. women under the age of 65 will have a stroke. Stroke can affect anyone at any age, even children. Risk factors for women under the age of 55 include suffering from migraines, taking birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy, or having an autoimmune disease or clotting disorder. If you have had a parent or relative who has had a stroke, you may also be at risk.

If you have any of these risk factors, visit the American Heart Association’s website at www.heart.org for more information, and be sure to alert your relatives, friends, and coworkers about your condition. They need to be able to recognize and react to the first warning signs of stroke, which include a sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm, or leg, sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding, sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes, loss of balance

and coordination, or a sudden, severe headache. If you or someone you know is having these symptoms, call 911 immediately. It is critical that a stroke sufferer gets to the hospital as soon as possible.

For more information about stroke and what doctors are doing to treat stroke sufferers, see our article on page 16.

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Five families in San Francisco used to take turns picking up the group’s fresh goat milk shares each week. They were among the approximately 300 Bay Area residents who had a private contract with Evergreen Acres, a goat farm located in San Jose until March 2012, and now moved to Hollister.

These families signed a herd-share agreement, in which they pay a farmer to board, care for, and milk their “share” of a goat. In return, they are provided with milk. Farm owner Mike Hulme, a former engineer and physicist, says, “I’ve been on this farm for over 20 years. We started the dairy about six years ago.”

High in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and bioactive compounds, raw goat milk is touted for its myriad health benefits. Acceptable to most lactose-intolerant individuals, goat milk’s smaller protein and fat molecules and essential fatty acids make it easier to digest than cow’s milk. Preserving the quality of the milk by consuming it raw, instead of pasteurized, is the key for many consumers.

“Pasteurization practically cooks the milk, making it indigestible and toxic to your system,” Hulme says.

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Before receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the Santa Clara County District Attorney's office and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in May 2011, Evergreen Acres Farm bred and sold goats and provided the Bay Area with raw herd-share goat milk.

Evergreen Acres’ goats were milked twice a day and the milk was put into sterilized containers before being refrigerated and delivered to shareholders, or picked up by customers who came to the farm with a sterilized jar from home.

“It’s very simple and very clean,” Hulme says of the process, which is now deemed illegal. According to current law, individuals are permitted to milk their animal at a herd-share farm, but they must consume the milk on-site. If the milk is moved from the farm, the farm is classified as a “distributing dairy” and is held to current certification laws. For Hulme to comply and become a certified dairy, he would have to install more than $100,000 worth of buildings and systems, which was not logical for the size of his San Jose goat herd and the amount of milk the goats produce. It was EUCALYPTUSMAGAZINE.COM | 7

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“Everything was going well until the letter came,” Hulme said of his San Jose farm. This was part of the reason for Hulme’s recent move to 36 acres of ranch land in Hollister, where he hopes to be able to raise the funds to build a dairy and creamery for processing raw milk. On the larger acreage in Hollister, Hulme can raise more goats.

Hulme and three shareholders filed a lawsuit with the Farm-toConsumer Legal Defense Fund against the CDFA and the County of Santa Clara, claiming that they have a right to consume raw milk produced by their own goats and enter into private herdshare contracts.

“The people who are being injured here are the owners of the goats. The state is essentially denying them access to what they have a right to. There should be nothing illegal about milking a goat and taking its milk home,” Hulme says.

The CDFA’s motion to strike Hulme’s lawsuit was denied and a stay on the case implemented in order to grant the CDFA time to form a working group and study the issue.

“If there is a positive outcome to the working group, in terms of the CDFA voluntarily changing the dairy code to be acceptable to us, then we will dismiss the suit,” Hulme says. His goal is for herd shares to be recognized as legal, practical, and manageable.

“I’m not going to give up on this,” Hulme says. “The dairy laws should not violate our civil rights.”

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While purchasing quality camping gear can be pricey, the cost should be looked at as a long-term investment both for you and for the planet, says Jerry McKeon, store manager for REI in Saratoga. Cheaply priced merchandise often has hidden costs, he says. “When you’re buying a cooler, as an example, you could go to K-Mart and buy a $3 styrofoam cooler that’s going to last for one trip until somebody puts a hole in it.”

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McKeon says that durable coolers and other camping gear “cost more money up front, but over the long run they’re going to last longer, and they’re going to be more sustainable.”

Durability not only has to do with how well a product is made, but what materials are used in its production. “There are so many high-tech synthetic fabrics out there now… things that are literally made from recycled plastic products,” Griffith-Jones says. For example, some tents, raincoats, and fleece jackets are made from PET, a high-quality polyester fiber made from recycled plastic bottles.

Many natural materials are also sustainable. One example is Smart Wool, or merino wool, which is not only warmer than a synthetic fabric like polyester, but also is less odorous. SmartWool is used in a variety of outdoor clothing from hiking socks to jackets to gloves.

Another important aspect of green camping is what to do with your gear once it is no longer being used. Griffith-Jones says, “I work with a group home, a school specifically for kids with emotional disabilities. We’re able to take the kids out hiking, snowshoeing, and doing other stuff, but they have no gear.” Donating gear is a way to give back to organizations and people who may not have the means to purchase gear. Your old camping equipment can be used by local nonprofits that specialize in youth outdoor programs, including Bay Area Wilderness Training, (510.452.2298 or www.bawt.org), Today’s Youth Matter (408.719.9125 or www.tymkids.org), or the San Francisco Bay Area Inner City Outings program of the Sierra Club (ico.sierraclub.org/sfbaychapter).

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Bowen therapy, a healing technique developed in the 1950s and 1960s by Australian Tom Bowen, is said to relieve conditions such as migraine headaches and lower back pain after only a few sessions. Reported to be a safe treatment for everyone from trained athletes to the elderly, Bowen’s popularity is growing in the United States.

Bowen therapy is based on the belief that the soft tissue, or fascia, is the cause of many health problems, including chronic pain. Bowen practitioners use their thumbs or forefingers to make gentle, rolling movements across tendons, ligaments, and connective tissue. Patients can wear clothing during the treatment.

During a typical session, the therapist leaves the room for two-minute pauses, which allow the patient’s body to respond to the treatment. Through its gentle manipulation of soft tissue, Bowen therapy stimulates the body to return to balance, allowing it to heal.

“Bowen is different from Rolfing or chiropractic,” says Craig Sakimoto, a certified Bowen Therapy Practitioner at San Jose’s Zen Integrative Clinic.

“Bowen gets the body in a state of balance, energetically, so it can heal itself.”

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“An injury, such as whiplash sustained from a car accident, stays in the body,” Sakimoto says. “In other words, the memory of that injury causes a person to compensate for the pain, even when the pain is gone. This leads to imbalances…

You don’t remember what normal is.”

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“Bowen is especially effective for problems with the knee, hip, and neck,” he says. Wolf was initially skeptical about the method, but now he treats dozens of clients with Bowen therapy and says that 80 percent of them benefit from it.

“I realized that Bowen was just as powerful, if not more so, than other techniques such as massage and acupuncture. It’s also easier to administer.”

A study at the University of North Carolina found that patients rated the Bowen technique as 75 to 85 percent effective for treating back pain, hip pain, stress, and other conditions.

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Stroke survivor Steve Kingsbury no longer plays golf, but he keeps his clubs around for occasional in-house putting.

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Imagine an earthquake in your brain.

The shaking starts small and slowly becomes stronger, rattling your whole world. That’s what a stroke is like.

In Santa Clara County, 4,500 people each year are hospitalized due to a stroke. At age 47, Steve Kingsbury was one of those people.

After playing a round of golf with friends, Kingsbury went to bed and woke up the next morning unable to move. A massive stroke took away his ability to walk and talk.

When a stroke—a blood clot in the brain—occurs, the blood supply is cut off and brain tissue begins to die. To stop the die-off, a fast response is critical. The stroke sufferer must get to the hospital immediately for emergency treatment or neuro-intervention in order to restore blood supply.

When Kingsbury awoke and realized he was having a stroke, he found that the entire right side of his body was numb, which prevented him from walking. His cell phone, which he normally put near his bed before going to sleep, had been left in the kitchen the night before.

“For just one minute I said, ‘This is scary,’ but that same minute I said, ‘You know what, I’ve got to find my cell.’ ” Stroke sufferers who arrive at the hospital within three hours of when their symptoms first appeared may receive tPA, or tissue plasminogen activator. The only FDA-approved drug used to treat stroke, tPA is injected either into the vein or into the artery to break up the blood clot.

Not everybody is eligible for tPA, however, and Kingsbury was not. Because he had suffered a stroke while sleeping, there was no way to guess if the stroke had happened recently enough.

Ursula Kelly-Tolle, a registered nurse and Director of Neurovascular Services for Minimally Invasive Surgical Solutions in San Jose, says, “If you wake up with the symptoms, you don’t know if [the stroke] happened at 5 o’clock in the morning or if it happened at 10 o’clock at night.”

Since Kingsbury was not a candidate for tPA, the doctors’ next step was to begin neuro-intervention through one of several possible invasive procedures designed to break up the clot.

“With all of [these procedures], you’re working to try and remove

the clot and restore blood flow to the blood vessels,” Kelly-Tolley says. A commonly used practice utilizes the Merci Retriever, a device designed by Concentric Medical in Mountain View. This corkscrew-like tool is inserted into the clotted vein, then pushed up into and past the clot. When the device is retrieved, it pulls the clot with it. “It’s very intricate work,” she says. “Highly skilled doctors have specialized in doing this type of work.”

Rebuilding Life After a Stroke Many stroke victims suffer from long-term impairment, whether it is cognitive or physical. For Kingsbury, after his initial moments of clarity upon waking up, it took him four months of recovery to finally understand what was going on. “I couldn’t talk, but I had enough awareness. I thought, ‘Why am I not going to my place, where’s my car, where’s my life?’ ” he says.

“The brain has its own recovery time period,” says Dr. Allen Kaisler-Meza, Medical Director for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Program at the Mission Oaks Campus of Good Samaritan Hospital.

“What we do is enhance that recovery.”

The Good Samaritan inpatient rehabilitation program provides three types of therapy: physical, occupational, and speech.

Three-hour daily treatments are tailored to stroke patients’ individual needs.

“Some people who have had strokes don’t know they had a stroke. They don’t know why they are where they are. It’s that bad,” Kaisler-Meza says.

For patients like Kingsbury, speech therapy focuses on cognition, memory, language, and insight. In contrast, physical therapy for stroke survivors focuses on balance, standing, and walking. “Some people who have had strokes can move their arms and legs, but their balance is off. A physical therapist would work on their balance,” Kaisler-Meza says.

Often a stroke impairs a person’s ability to complete tasks associated with daily living. Occupational therapy helps survivors to relearn these basic tasks. “[Some patients] can walk, but they can’t // continued on page 24 use a bathroom,” says Kaisler-Meza. “The EUCALYPTUSMAGAZINE.COM | 17

At European Auto Works, Cliff Greenman notes signs of spring in the shop’s certified wildlife habitat garden.

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n the late 1980s, Larry Moore of Larry’s Auto Works in Mountain View didn’t realize that the oil and gas that he washed down a storm drain flowed into creeks and then into San Francisco Bay. But when moving his shop in 1989, Moore found there were new rules attempting to limit the practice. He was in favor of reducing pollution, but he found the new rules inconsistent and opposed to good environmental practices.

So Moore, a business owner for decades, got to work. He talked to regulators and led others by example. He stopped dumping pollutants down the drain and created a four-step clean-up process that is now used by auto repair shops around the country.

“He led his industry forward in pollution prevention,” says Phil Bobel, who in the early 1990s worked as Palo Alto’s environmental compliance manager.

For more than 20 years, Moore has had a hand in developing local and state regulations that limit the amount of pollution caused by auto maintenance shops.

Moore and other South Bay auto maintenance shop owners go a step above the baseline regulations and aim for sustainability, and they do so under the guidance of the Bay Area Green Business Program. Coordinated by the Association of Bay Area Governments, the program is a partnership of government agencies and utilities whose goal is to help businesses comply with environmental regulations and take actions to prevent pollution, minimize waste, and reduce their carbon footprint.

In the South Bay, Larry’s Auto Works was used as a model when the green business program began in the mid-1990s.

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“Our business is not a dirty business,” Moore says, although he adds that the hazardous materials that come out of vehicles are dirty—including oil, coolant, and transmission fluids. “A car is a big container of environmental hazards,” he says.

European Auto Works is another green-certified auto maintenance business that goes above and beyond what is required by the government. When the shop moved from Mountain View to Sunnyvale three years ago, its owner opted for a green, energyefficient building with dual-pane glass and timers for lighting and heat. On sunny days, a skylight allows the shop to keep the lights low or off.

Employee Cliff Greenman says shop owner Ralph Foglein was particular about having a state-of-the-art “green” building, in part because decreased energy saves money in the long run.

“To some degree, you can have your cake and eat it, too,” Greenman says. “You can be green and save money at the same time.”

European Auto Works’ shop makes additional concessions for the environment. Office workers use more expensive paper made of 100 percent post-consumer content. A drought-tolerant garden in front of the shop is a certified wildlife habitat that attracts hummingbirds and squirrels.

For Marvin Weitz, owner of The RennShop in Santa Clara, which specializes in repairing Porsches, the environment is important, but so is the health of his employees.

Weitz was a technician for 17 years prior to opening his shop almost five years ago. In his experience, he says, car repair shops have their eyes set on profits, not on their employees’ health.

With that in mind, his shop minimizes the use of brake cleaners and other chemicals and uses ultrasonic cleaners on engine parts.

He uses a “dry wash” on cars that // continued on page 26

Owner Marvin Weitz of The RennShop is as concerned about his employees’ health as he is about the environment.

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Annie Burke writes and maintains the blog of the Bay Area Open Space Council.

An organization devoted to the protection of public parks, trails, and agricultural land in the Bay Area, the Open Space Council uses its blog to bring attention to critical issues such as “climate change, state park closures, and their member organizations,” Burke says. “Seventy state parks are slated to close this year, but all 238 parks are being affected by budget cuts.”

The blog is vital to the Open Space Council’s efforts because “it tells a story you’d write in a grant proposal, but few people read that. The work of the Open Space Council is pretty intangible, so one thing the blog does is provide visible ways for readers to connect to what we’re doing.”

The results of Burke’s online labors were not obvious at first. She says, “It’s hard to find a cause-effect relationship…

No one says, ‘here’s a check for a million dollars because of your blog.’ But we have raised more money in the last year and a half than in previous years.”

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Annie Burke

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The Internet is abuzz with bloggers of varying pursuits and passions, some aiming to create a written forum for connecting with others, others hoping to carve out a space for affecting change. Among those logging hours at the keyboard are these six activists, parents, farmers, and foodies who take on issues essential to green living, conservation, and healthy eating.

Lindsey Goldberg

Denise Woodward; opposite page, Top: John Vu; bottom:Filiz Telek

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With a slogan of “live small, eat big,” Denise Woodward and her husband plan their blog topics around the seasonal meals they cook each week. What began as a marketing experiment for their business—to see if they could push traffic to a website using social media—turned into something more as they combined their two passions: food and photography.

Woodward says, “Little did we know, people would love [the blog] and we would want to continue to feed it.”

She says she and her husband strive to “provide readers with healthy recipes using fresh ingredients instead of processed foods.” She wants readers to be aware that “eating seasonally reduces our carbon imprint,” which can be as simple as “eating root vegetables during the winter and strawberries in the summer.” All meals are prepared in the couple’s 20-square-foot kitchen, which provides an unexpected benefit—the scant cupboard space forces them to store less and eat fresher ingredients.

Weekly features on the blog such as “Friday Cocktail Hour,” which describes a new drink every week, keep readers coming back. Woodward encourages her readers with advice like “it’s easy to make a simple and healthy meal at home. While you’re helping your kids do their homework, why not have a simple chicken roasting in the oven?”

Community Gardens GrazetheRoof.blogspot.com

In the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, Graze the Roof is a community-produced vegetable garden on the rooftop of Glide Memorial Church. Lindsey Goldberg, who writes the blog for the garden, says the vegetables are contributed to the Glide Foundation, which distributes 3,000 meals a day. “Our weekly harvest is about 10 to 15 pounds of produce a week, which is considerable for a rooftop space.”

The goal for Goldberg’s blog and the community garden is the same, she says. They are intended to “create a vibrant urban agriculture within the city.”

With soil-less vegetable growers, garden beds made from milk crates, and self-watering containers, “our aim is to activate underutilized surfaces, such as rooftops, and also to be a source for teaching children of all ages about urban agriculture,” Goldberg says.

A positive result of Goldberg’s blog is increased participation at the garden’s community workdays and weekend workshops. “Because of the blog, we’re able to receive gratitude for the work. Even the folks who can’t make it to the site to volunteer will often send emails saying ‘thanks’ or ‘great job,’ and the blog allows them to live vicariously through the project.” » EUCALYPTUSMAGAZINE.COM | 21

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Kelly Munoz of Pie Ranch says her blog is about “keeping readers educated on the daily aspects of farm life, and teaching kids about ‘farm to fork’—sustainably grown, healthy foods.”

Pie Ranch, a 14-acre triangular slice of land in Pescadero, was named for its distinct pie shape and also as a way to relate how food comes from the land to our tables.

Munoz says she covers topics like “the high cost of land available to farmers in the Bay Area, and the geographical challenges facing urban youth as they try to find nutritional food in their neighborhoods.” To engage her blog’s readers, she says, “We keep a close eye on the feedback on the site and respond with stories that reflect reader interest. Readers have quite an appetite for what it’s like to farm. It’s symptomatic of the shrinking number of people who actually farm for a living and a yearning in people to reawaken their connection to the land.”

A recurring feature on the blog is “Recipes from the Farm” by the Pie Ranch’s chef-educator, who works with visiting students. Pie Ranch also hosts a monthly community workday and old-fashioned barn dance on the third Saturday of every month.

John Peterson & Mark Feldman

Erin Addiego started writing her blog to chronicle changes she made in her life after the birth of her daughter. The mother-turned-blogger says, “The absolute simplicity of her babyhood showed me how little people really need versus what they want to have. I was motivated to change the products we were using in our home and on our bodies to keep her as safe and healthy as possible.”

And from there, Addiego says, “It was a snowball effect. I started asking, ‘What’s in the food that we are eating? How can we save water? Can we make our own bread, our own butter?’ ” Addiego’s blog includes posts about urban farming, green housecleaning products, composting, cloth diapering, and cooking with locally grown food. She says that she “hopes to show people that being green has a lot to do with kicking the consumerism habit. Choosing to purchase previously owned items is always going to be a greener choice.”

This mindset led to Addiego and her husband starting their own antique furniture business, www.SchoolbusVintage.com. Addiego says there are “many ‘eco-friendly’ blogs out there pushing products people don’t need, which, at its core, is the exact opposite of eco-friendly.” She believes it is her job as a blogger to ask questions, such as, “Is that product as ecologically friendly as they are making it seem, or is it just clever marketing?”

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creative angle,” says Peterson. “One student writing about a backpacking trip communicates the value of a natural environment, and another student using photos of sailing helps readers understand water issues.”

The topics on the site are entirely student-driven. Feldman says, “With the magic of Google searching, our readership gets broader because of the eclectic nature of our stories.”

Peterson adds that “part of the mission is that sustainability needs communication in order to work. We need people to share artwork and ideas and what they’re discovering.

When you put all that together in one place, it draws people together and you realize how many of us are working on projects that can add to sustainability.”

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In March 2011, Mark Feldman and John Peterson, two professors of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, launched a project that funded two students to carry out research related to Stanford and sustainability issues.

Then they instructed those students to make their findings public.

Feldman says, “In the course of that year we launched a blog as a communication tool to link a community of activists on the Stanford campus and beyond. Reflecting on that first year, we realized the blog was the most exciting part of that project and what we wanted to expand on.”

Each post on the Stanford blog “helps readers understand ways to approach sustainability from a

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Dr. Ching Ching Chi works with patient Jean Craig, who suffered a stroke and brain hemorrhage two years ago.

says. “I can just stop and say, ‘Wow, life is a mystery. It is a little bit scary sometimes, but I’m going to keep going because it really is special, and there is only one.’ ” The Future of Stroke Therapies: Acupuncture and Stem Cells Currently in China, when a person suffers a stroke, he or she will receive emergency care similar to that in the United States, and then soon thereafter undergo a series of acupuncture treatments. Dr. Ching Ching Chi, PhD, L.Ac., an acupuncturist in Sunnyvale, says, “At this time not many people know that acupuncture can treat stroke or help alleviate a lot of symptoms that a stroke patient has.”

Chi cites one of her stroke patients who, after two treatments of acupuncture, was able to open her hand.

After four treatments, another stroke patient was able to walk without her cane.

For stroke patients, Chi typically inserts needles in the head and on the extremities such as the hands and feet.

“Acupuncture can help dilate the blood vessels and that will help to improve the circulation in the brain,” she says.

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Stroke survivor Steve Kingsbury walks from home to his job at the local Safeway store.

“With head acupuncture, you can see immediate results.”

Ongoing studies on stem cell therapy also offer the possibility of advancements in stroke therapy. A study being done by SanBio, Inc. in Palo Alto involves injecting a cell therapy product called SB623, which is derived from mesenchymal stem cells, into the damaged area of stroke survivors’ brain tissue.

“Once [stem cells] are implanted, they promote the healing and regeneration of function in the tissue that has been damaged but not killed outright by the stroke,” says Dr. Casey Case, Vice President of Research at SanBio. Mesenchymal stem cells are acquired from normal, healthy bone marrow donors, which make them ethical and easy to obtain. They also have a proven track record because they are used in bone marrow transplants. One bone marrow donor translates into thousands of doses of SB623.

“These cells are supportive in their regenerative properties,” Case says. “They don’t replace any of the tissue that’s been lost because of the stroke, but they encourage the healing and restoration of the part of the brain that’s been injured but not killed outright.”

Stem-cell therapy differs from tPA and neuro-intervention treatments because it attempts to promote the brain’s healing after it has stabilized following a stroke.

“This is important because many patients who have a stroke don’t get to the hospital within the few hours available,” Case says.

This first stage of the study will test the safety of the product, which is being evaluated at Stanford University in Palo Alto and the University of Pittsburg in Pennsylvania.

The staff at the Mission Oaks campus of Good Samaritan Hospital gathers in the simulated apartment where stroke patients work on their daily living skills.

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occupational therapist teaches them activities like combing their hair, brushing their teeth, taking a shower, going to the bathroom, dressing themselves, and eating.”

At Mission Oaks, the inpatient facility features a simulated apartment that helps survivors practice daily living tasks. “We feel very fortunate to have this apartment because patients can come to get the feel of home,” says Sondra Washam, a registered nurse and Community Education Coordinator for Rehabilitation Services at Good Samaritan. “It’s easier to do it when they get home if they practice it here.”

Seven years later and after a lot of therapy, Kingsbury has regained his ability to walk and talk, defying the predictions of some doctors who said he would never do either. He says his stroke granted him a unique perspective on life.

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Larry Moore of Larry’s Auto Works with his wife Laurie

to be green. “I’m not in the business to get rich. I’m in the business to help people, and I feel like I’m giving back to the community by being green and recycling. We try to be as green as we can.”

Still, few businesses, perhaps in any industry, are as green as Larry’s Auto Works.

In 1993, Larry Moore’s shop received an environmental achievement award for small businesses in Santa Clara County for its environmentally sound facility and practices. In 1999, Moore was appointed to an advisory committee that reviews and makes recommendations on the work of the California Department of Toxic Substances.

More recently, in an effort to prevent pollution of waterways, Larry’s Auto Works has started selling brake pads that do not contain copper. Studies have found that copper dust from brake pads is entering waterways and disrupting ecosystems.

In 2010, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger approved a law phasing out copper from vehicle brake pads to no more than 5 percent by 2021 and no more than 0.5 percent by 2025. Moore championed this legislation, although he says it’s unlikely that most auto repair shops are complying yet.

Moore says his business also uses re-refined motor oil, and recycles “virtually everything,” including metals, oils, and other liquids like coolants.

“We moved again 10 years ago to where we are now,” Moore says.

“We went beyond eco-friendly; we went to sustainability.”

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eliminates water run-off and recycles scrap metal, waste oil, and coolant.

The RennShop also utilizes efficient fluorescent lighting and energy-efficient computers and printers that Weitz purchased secondhand. “Any shop that is run decently should be meeting the … green program standards. But I imagine that there are plenty that aren’t,” Weitz says.

Weitz also encourages Porsche owners not to remove their emissions components, which can increase the vehicle’s horsepower but can also prohibit it from legally passing a smog test.

“You can guide people down the right road,” Weitz says, adding that he doesn’t believe his practices have lost him any customers.

The Dinan Service Center in Campbell, which specializes in BMW maintenance, works with customers to improve the mileage of their vehicles in part through fuel service cleanings of their tailpipes, says service director Andrei Obolenskiy. In addition, the greencertified business also recycles as much as possible.

“We let [customers] know that we do as much as we can to be environmentally friendly and as green as possible,” he says. Despite being in the auto business, the company encourages its employees not to drive their cars to work.

Obolenskiy says he commutes by train and light rail from Pleasanton to Campbell. “We try to encourage employees to reduce their carbon footprint as much as possible,” he says.

Greenman of European Auto Works also believes in encouraging people not to drive. He says the internal combustion engine of a typical automobile is extremely inefficient for short distances.

Although Greenman says he is happy that electric vehicles are becoming more common, he still believes that people should be walking more or riding bicycles.

“Bicycles, public transportation, and shoe leather,” says Greenman, who worked for tech start-ups before changing careers 11 years ago. “We all need to find ways to avoid driving.”

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