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Breathing under the sky, freely, out of doors and with the real earth under our feet is one of the very best things we can do for our health. It’s good physically, mentally, for ourselves, our children, our society, our values and for the greensphere of life.

Unfortunately, however, with the majority of humanity living in cities, space to breathe has become a precious resource, and like all precious things, it needs champions. There are many people and organizations already devoted to the preservation of open space, places we love, and the many places that are yet to be paved. Our mission is to help bring these groups together. When it comes to open spaces, and to the people who preserve them, there is strength indeed in numbers.

Plutonium

Glenn T Seaborg

Glenn T Seaborg

The Seaborg Fund was founded for this purpose by David Seaborg in honor of his father Glenn T. Seaborg, UC Chancellor and discoverer of Plutonium. The fund began as a tribute to the elder Seaborg, a Nobel Laureate and UC Berkeley professor. As a Lafayette, CA. resident, Mr. Seaborg was involved in the identification of 10 elements — including plutonium, berkelium and, naturally, seaborgium — and worked on the Manhattan Project developing the first atomic bomb. He enjoyed hiking and frequently spoke before city councils and other agencies in support of preserving open space. A trail in Briones Regional Park was named after him in 2004.

Briones Regional Park, Lafayette Ridge

Briones Regional Park, Lafayette Ridge

We are now re-forming the organization to continue to honor the Seaborg legacy but also to reach out and join hands with other open space groups.

Shawn Coyle

Shawn Coyle

The new president of the Fund is Shawn Coyle, a Bay Area native and professional active in the field of information technology. Shawn is currently at work to formulate plans to develop the Seaborg Fund and to partner with various groups and people to support every effort to create events that celebrate the places we love, that help remind ourselves and others of the invigorating presence of nature all around, the natural places that clear the mind and the spirit in the fresh air of development-free open space, the world as it used to be, the world as it can be.

Where are your favorite places? Let’s work to protect them together! What can we do to celebrate our shared landscapes, our countrysides, our natural inheritance of true wealth, wonder and beauty? Let’s brainstorm and take action! What are your ideas? Let’s talk!

Welcome to the new website too! It’s a work in progress, and will be, but we are going to have some fun and develop a friendly online channel for artists, bloggers, writers, photographers, poets and filmmakers and other various thoughtful folks to share their ideas and inspirations. We are hooking up this site as well with facebook and twitter, etc., in order to make it as easy as possible to access, share and enjoy what’s going on. The idea is to create on online “open space” –something of value to you, to ourselves, and to our communities. Or objective is to help gain traction for all stakeholders in efforts towards the preservation of open space, and to have fun doing it.

Welcome to the Seaborg Fund!

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