Fun Local Mind Oakland 
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 6, 2008
Last week I announced a new weekly feature that I'm trying out on Have Fun * Do Good, Ask Britt , where you send in questions related to career design for artists and activists, and I'll do my best to answer them. For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 29, 2010
It was shocking and deplorable, really terrible, to learn that and know that it's not at the forefront of a lot of people's thinking when they think about local food or regional food. I feel like the bar's been raised so high in the country around awareness of eating local foods, and policy is definitely the next step.
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Museum 2.0
JULY 7, 2010
As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)? At some point you have to make some "or" choices. You can't always do "and."
Have Fun - Do Good
MARCH 26, 2010
You can imagine how excited I was to find out about Fat Bottom Bakery , a vegan bakery in Oakland, CA (where I live) that makes all kind of desserts, including cupcakes! It had a great response, and ever since then we've been trying to find different local events, and branching out from there. Britt Bravo: Why a vegan bakery?
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 13, 2008
You can also listen to it on this little player: Those of you who are long time Big Vision Podcast listeners and/or Have Fun * Do Good readers, may remember Ari from an interview I did with him and his business partner, Eric Fenster, in 2006 about their work with Back to Earth. Ari Derfel: What inspired me to save a year of trash?
Have Fun - Do Good
APRIL 25, 2008
We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. It just seems like such a mind-leap for people to make. I ended up in it from way back, from where I grew up.
Have Fun - Do Good
MARCH 9, 2007
The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. In October the City of Berkeley soft ordered 40 plug-ins and in December the city of Alameda soft ordered 98.
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