Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 23, 2009
Waiting a few weeks until your "real life" is in full swing can help you craft more realistic goals. February - celebrate local musicians; March - local, socially responsible investing). Volunteer in Oakland outside of my home office, and away from my computer. Flickr photo credit: Downtown Oakland 2 uploaded by ChrisDag.
Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 25, 2009
In his address to Congress last night, President Obama said, "But in my life, I have also learned that hope is found in unlikely places; that inspiration often comes not from those with the most power or celebrity, but from the dreams and aspirations of ordinary Americans who are anything but ordinary." ordinary heroes book
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Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 18, 2012
If you're an iTunes user, one of the ways you can help me celebrate this anniversary is by finding the Big Vision Podcast in the iTunes Store and giving it a star rating (hopefully a good one!), You can view all of the interviews, and subscribe to the show, on iTunes , or on the Big Vision Podcast's landing page.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 29, 2010
They're aware of human issues, both here and abroad, and that somehow drove them all into the position that food was a place where they would be advocating for change through their passion, their life work, and through wanting to celebrate not only communities, but also by becoming activists for changing the way we eat.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
People lining the street on the Tuesday afternoon when the boards arrived from the Port of Oakland, cheering as the crates came off the truck. We celebrated the anniversary with a surf demo, paddle out, and luau. For me personally, it was life-changing. So let's celebrate relevance. People pouring in to see the show.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Sometimes these innovations are woven into the institutional core programming, as at the redesigned, highly interactive Oakland Museum of California. I ask these questions because I think there's a pretty big gulf between the one-time or occasional arts experience and the idea of art and institutions as part of your life.
Have Fun - Do Good
APRIL 25, 2007
To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. People, when you have a lot of crisis in your life, hearing about an even bigger crisis is just depressing. Oakland, among other places, sued, got a four-point-something million dollar settlement.
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