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Extreme Film Fest Creates Controversy

On Tuesday, the San Diego Unified Board of Education gave the green light to a new budget for the school year. One school board member put it this way: the budget is going to cause grave damage to our schools in San Diego.

With baby boomers about to turn 65, homebuilders see a big market for a building concept called universal design. It means houses are designed so owners can stay as they grow old -- even if they develop physical limitations. The trick is making them beautiful enough that no one suspects they're meant for seniors.

Businesses can be either for-profit companies or nonprofit organizations. The law doesn't recognize a corporate form that falls in between. But some want to protect these "for-benefit corporations," so companies can balance profitability with social and environmental policies, without the threat of a lawsuit.

Californians should take shorter showers, wash only full loads of laundry and use a broom instead of a hose to clean their driveways.

What's lurking at the bottom of San Diego Bay? For the last 21 years hundreds of volunteers have gathered each summer for Operation Clean Sweep.

We'll speak to a Harvard-educated doctor who grew up in a small farming community in the Coachella Valley. Dr. Raul Ruiz, a son of farm workers, now devotes his life to building a pathway for youth from rural communities to become doctors who will return to practice medicine in their home towns.

China is the world's largest producer of coal — and its largest consumer. Engineer Huang Shengchu promotes reducing reliance on this dirtiest of fossil fuels by capturing a byproduct, methane, and using it to produce power. Methane power plants are one of the country's best tools in fighting climate change.

Ed Begley Jr. drives his electric car to San Diego to promote alternative fuel vehicles. The actor and environmental activist will speak Thursday evening at a fundraiser for the Center for Sustainable

San Diego's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival