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Sudo Room moves into permanent space
Sudo Room, a hacker/creativespace in downtown Oakland, is celebrating their move into a full space at
2141 Broadway at 22nd St. Details at http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Welcome |
Workshop on starting a worker-owned business, Nov/ 17 in East Oakland
Think Outside the Boss - Creating a Worker-Owned BusinessFree event Nov 17: Register online What is a worker owned business? How do you start one? Join the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), and Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) as we explore the connections between environmental justice, resiliency and worker-owned business development. You should come to this workshop if you are interested in creating a worker-owned business in your community or if you are a nonprofit non-profit organizations interested in incubating worker-owned businesses. 10:30am - 11:00am - Registration 11:00am - 2:30pm - Workshop Location: Tassafaronga Recreation Center
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Brush with Bamboo introduces bamboo toothbrush
Rohit Sahdev's new company, Brush with Bamboo makes eco-friendly toothbrushes from
100% biodegradable materials!
If you know of
any cool people/retailers/farmers markets/etc that would be interested
in selling this product, please feel free to email him at sahdev.rohit (at) gmail.
Also, if you are interested in seeing this product
in real/physical life, the brushes will be on the shelves of Rainbow
Grocery in SF and the Berkeley Student Food Collective. |
Food: An Atlas currently fundraising
Food an Atlas . It's a Kickstarter campaign for a project Molly Roy has been working on in the past few months. She's co-editing an atlas related to all things food, which means she's been trying to organize 100 cartographers, educators, food policy organizers, artists and an admin team to work together to create a bunch of cool maps — all in a span of FIVE MONTHS (the idea was conceived mid-June, and we want to send this to the printer November 16th). This is an experiment in what my co-editor likes to call "guerrilla cartography," meaning that we value collaboration, don't want to depend on a publisher, everyone's a volunteer, and we do this fast. No one is getting paid except the printers and perhaps someone to pack and ship the books, and people volunteer their time to the extend that they want to. It's crowd-produced, -funded, and -published, and it's already brought together an incredible community of map-lovers, food-lovers, art-lovers, and book-lovers. Fundraising deadline: October 23. |
Local Wikis coming to the Bay Area
For years, residents of Davis, California have used the Davis Wiki to share information on living in or visiting their city. Now, the same platform is available for San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley! sfwiki.org oaklandwiki.org berkeleywiki.org |