Climate Escape Room: Make Your Own Fun Group CO2 Learning Game
Last week at the Getting To Zero (carbon) conference I played an excellent group game that showed how with a
Things I care about.
Last week at the Getting To Zero (carbon) conference I played an excellent group game that showed how with a
Let’s act now with radical climate policies that can change the global trajectory. Berkeley’s been an environmental leader for decades.
Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about restorative justice… the idea that harms done can be repaired, through encounters among
Update: On September 26th I received this email from the Downtown Business Association, which owns the truck: “Dave, Thanks for
Thinking about getting more involved in Berkeley? It’s never been easier to run for City Council: there are four seats
TLDR: Wealth and political giving are extremely concentrated in Berkeley. With the 2020 primaries around the corner, I thought I’d
Update: On July 16, 2019, Berkeley became the first California city to ban natural gas in new buildings. I’m a businessperson.
Today I spent a couple of hours in a basement archive belonging to the New York Times. It was a
Think these over before meeting with potential funders from the tech world. More and more journalist-entrepreneurs are looking to Silicon
Check out the first five Netflix annual reports (2002-2007), which for some reason I saved and have now scanned: 2002
“You don’t seem cut out for business.” That’s what some guy from Harvard Business School essentially told me when I
This morning I found the notes from my memorable early-1999 meeting with Google’s Larry Page and Sergei Brin. I was
Dad and I finally got into a professional recording studio last week, at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. I
The early Quizlet team was awesome. We bootstrapped the company for almost a decade, with a small, scrappy, team that
$19 million for 23 affordable housing units, and $22 million for a seismic retrofit. Update: After I published this post
In January 1984, I got offered a summer reporting internship at the Virginian Pilot in Norfolk Virginia. On hearing about it,
The recent Online News Association event in Austin was great – full of passionate, committed local journalist-entrepreneurs all trying to figure
I recently spent 24 hours in Pensacola, and stumbled across a ghostly reminder of how far local journalism has fallen
They’re facing a lot of change, and the same tough questions. Google ‘what do teachers and journalists have in common’
Paywalls have dramatically failed journalism. In an attempt to adapt to the Internet, American newspapers of all sizes have erected
What can America do with its mountains of recycled cardboard? Make educational toys, that’s what! Last week, in Burlington, Vermont,
Why does The New York Times only have two million digital subscribers, when there are two billion smartphone users on
How long can a symbol of hopeful activism last? A long time, in the case of Berkeley’s Wall For Peace,
Note: due to low viewership, I’ve decided not to go forward with this experiment… its not worth the time. While
If you’re a creative person and want to get inspired, watch this talk with Detroit letterpress artist Amos Kennedy Jr.
Thinking about running for Berkeley City Council? You should! There are four seats open in this year’s election, and there’s
Why so many people are feeling squeezed. What’s the United States’ biggest export? iPhones? Airplanes? Nope – it’s deflation. For
His book is worth reading – and his second act worth considering. A friend snapped this cell phone picture of
Wurlitzer Organ at Berkeley High School, Jan 13, 2018 Was walking by Berkeley High today and saw the door to
Looking to swim laps in the East Bay? We have some awesome pools here. Here’s my roundup so far, after trying
Want to learn more about homelessness in the United States? I spent a couple of days trying to find the
Here’s a list of local (Bay Area) artists I’ve discovered – and liked – for one reason or another. I’ll
Finally some research is coming out about the real cost of owning electric cars – confirming that while they cost
I was in Capitola last weekend and came across this awesome public art project, on the boardwalk downtown, from 2008. What’s
Fourteen years after the war in Iraq started, the New York Times is now reporting that Iran has essentially taken over
Just wanted to post a few pictures and a video from my house concert this Saturday featuring the awesome bluegrass
Quizlet CEO Matt Glotzbach and I visited Khan Academy today to have lunch with their new COO Ginny Lee, who
Here’s a few resources I’ve come across (or am developing myself), that may be useful for people getting more into playing
The above security camera photo shows members of the Quizlet team hustling patio furniture inside to protect it from a
My dad wrote this poem shortly after Trump’s election. He was trying to process and think positive about a seemingly
I spent today working on some home-improvement projects, mostly involving locks and metal fitting of various types. At one point
California already has more mid-day solar power than it knows what to do with. The above graph, published yesterday in
What you’ve always believed is true, may not be true. This morning the strap on my swim goggles broke right
In many years of going to the Alameda antiques market, I’ve stumbled across some unique and mysterious items, but nothing
I bought this sign at the Alameda antiques market after noticing it a few months in a row. I’m into
For years I’d been searching for a matched set of vintage wooden folding chairs. Recently, just as I was about
Most songs about political issues aren’t very good songs. But check out these tunes written in the 60s and 70s,
How do you prioritize solving the world’s problems? Can this even be done? Last night, I heard a guy speak,
Every good fight needs some fight songs, but the climate change battle doesn’t have many. People don’t sing much about car
“The frame of mind of the young hitchhiker is one of the freest frames of mind there is,” Stewart Brand