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The staff at Ploughshares Nursery at Alameda Point has made do with a 10-by-10-foot shed, kindly built as a gift from an Eagle Scout. The staff uses portable solar or a long extension cord for electricity. There’s a Porta-Potty nearby. There’s no heat or storage. And that was fine, for a while. But the grant money came through, the plans were approved and the permits received. So Ploughshares is now breaking ground for an über-green 2,500-square-foot, resource-efficient facility designed by Kahn Designs Associates of Berkeley.