The Perfect Clean Machine
2025-06-18
What does energy nirvana look like? To me, it’s cheap, clean power, straight from your roof instead of fossil fuelsKeep Reading
Electric Shock: Why Is This California Building’s PG&E Bill Suddenly $500,000 A Year?
2024-06-20
California’s monopoly utilities have no competition… but there’s a fix. All over California, people are getting a shock when theyKeep Reading
Find The Climate Wins (And $ Savings) In These Berkeley Utility Bills
2023-12-28
Let’s get lots of people looking at these bills… please forward to anyone you know who may be interested. AttentionKeep Reading
Challenging Berkeley’s ‘100% Renewable’ Claims
2022-11-30
Gas power plants still provide over half our electrons. Don’t buy those ‘100% renewable’ claims… we’re not even close. Berkeley,Keep Reading
Catalytic Converter Theft, What’s The Deal?
2022-11-10
Berkeley, CA, where I live, has had a record 570 catalytic converter thefts so far this year, four of whichKeep Reading
Bagpipes Never Sounded So Good
2020-04-04
Our neighbor here in Berkeley has been playing bagpipes in the evenings, in his apartment, for nearly 15 years. ButKeep Reading
Academic Performance Trends For Berkeley’s Middle Schools, By Subgroup
2019-12-18
Update: Read Berkeleyside’s Jan. 28, 2020 deep dive on the situation at Longfellow. For those who saw my previous postKeep Reading
Academic Performance At Longfellow Plummets, While Willard and King Thrive
2019-12-15
De-facto segregation in plain sight.Keep Reading
Berkeley Wants To Buy Nine More Fossil-Fueled, 15-mpg Pickup Trucks
2019-12-09
There’s still time to stop this purchase. Let’s avoid buying nine new vehicles that will keep emitting carbon for decades.Keep Reading
How Berkeley Can Lead The World In Bold Climate Action
2019-09-19
Let’s act now with radical policies that can change the global trajectory. August 2020: Note that this post is alreadyKeep Reading
Let’s Fix This: Berkeley’s Sidewalk-Cleaning Trucks Are Spewing Noxious Emissions
2019-09-03
Update: On September 26th I received this email from the Downtown Business Association, which owns the truck: “Dave, Thanks forKeep Reading
Running For Berkeley City Council Is Easier Than Ever (Updated for 2020)
2019-09-02
Thinking about getting more involved in Berkeley? It’s never been easier to run for City Council: there are four seatsKeep Reading
How Berkeley’s Biggest Donors Helped Hillary Beat Bernie In 2016
2019-07-18
TLDR: Wealth and political giving are extremely concentrated in Berkeley. With the 2020 primaries around the corner, I thought I’dKeep Reading
Why Berkeley Should Ban Natural Gas Hookups
2019-07-15
Update: On July 16, 2019, Berkeley became the first California city to ban natural gas in new buildings. I’m a businessperson.Keep Reading
David Mayer On Fighting For Public Health, And His Condom Business
2019-02-26
How National Condom Week Turned Into A Lifelong Entrepreneurial Career In 2019 I interviewed my neighbor David Mayer, the founderKeep Reading
What Does Berkeley Get When We Spend $20 Million?
2018-10-20
$19 million for 23 affordable housing units, and $22 million for a seismic retrofit. Update: After I published this postKeep Reading
Berkeley’s Wall For Peace, Revisited 30 Years Later
2018-04-15
How long can a symbol of hopeful activism last? A long time, in the case of Berkeley’s Wall For Peace,Keep Reading
Introducing ‘Watch Berkeley Gov’
2018-04-05
Note: due to low viewership, I’ve decided not to go forward with this experiment… its not worth the time. WhileKeep Reading
Why Run For Berkeley City Council?
2018-01-11
Thinking about running for Berkeley City Council? You should! There are four seats open in this year’s election, and there’sKeep Reading
Local Music Moments, Caught on Video
2018-01-06
Wurlitzer Organ at Berkeley High School, Jan 13, 2018 Was walking by Berkeley High today and saw the door toKeep Reading