Sustainability
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Cloudflare Built EmDash. I Built NeighDash.
I moved eight websites off a shared server that kept falling over and onto Cloudflare, with an AI agent doing the heavy lifting. Cloudflare moved its own blog the same month, with load tests, a gradual rollout and a CMS named after my least favorite punctuation mark. So I named mine after a horse. Read more
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A Creek I Didnāt Mean to Fall Into
It was one of those gray SF days. Pandemic era. Everything was closed. I had been in the Bay Area for a bit, but I hadnāt really left the city much. Still very much a San Francisco rookie. One day I decided to take the first BART train to āanywhereā and see what happened. Itā¦ Read more
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A Drop Ripples Outward
When I first moved to San Francisco, I felt like just another tech bro leech, slurping up overpriced coffee, making rents go up, sucking the life out of the city, and giving absolutely nothing back. I had the whole starter pack: pitch deck, startup hoodie, a head full of āmove fastā mantras that sounded deepā¦ Read more
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Earth Day, Big Dreams, and Small Beginnings
I just had a call with the global team behind Earth Day, and Iām still impressed. Theyāre behind tens of thousands of Earth Day events around the world, including one right here in my city, and they run it like clockwork. It made me think about where all this started for me, organizing little movieā¦ Read more
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The Return of the Fly
Fifteen years ago, I went down a rabbit hole that was mostly larvae. Specifically, Hermetia illucens, better known as Black Soldier Flies. I was obsessed. Not in the ācute pet bugā way, but in the āwhat if this insect could help save the worldā kind of way. I read everything I could find, told anyoneā¦ Read more
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No gimmicks, please!
Today I joined #BikeToWhateverDay, and pedaling around with a bunch of strangers reminded me of a little list Iāve been trying with my team for the last two years. Nothing fancy, which is kind of the point. Make it easy to bike to work. Good for the planet, and the endorphins do more for moodā¦ Read more
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World powered by women
Last month, Nadine Hammer and I organized a series of free sustainability workshops around the city. Can you guess the gender ratio of the RSVPs and attendees? Some thoughts: Research indicates that women often express greater environmental concern and feel more responsible for fostering sustainable practices. This situation invites a deeper look into how environmentalā¦ Read more
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Bicycle use now exceeds car use
Not in the US, sorry, it was in Paris. Still, should we continue prioritizing the present comfort of our cars, electric or otherwise, over simpler, healthier alternatives like biking, which also safeguard our future physical and mental health and the planetās well-being? This shift not only challenges the notion that EVs are the ultimate solutionā¦ Read more
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Building a House Quick, Easy & Sustainable
Amazing Lego-Style HEMP BLOCKS Make Building a House Quick, Easy & Sustainable. Read more
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The Biggest Smallest Cinema in Town
Years ago, during a monthly farmers market in FlorianĆ³polis (Brazil) called Ratonarte, I somehow ended up running a tiny movie theater for kids. We called it Cine Ratones ā The Biggest Smallest Cinema in Town. Very accurate name, honestly. I suggested we could screen a few short films for kids, and the organizers immediately gaveā¦ Read more