Nearly two years ago, Greta Thunberg declared that “our house is on fire” at the World Economic Forum. She wasn’t the only one who saw that fire. Here in California, we could see the flames quite literally. As wildfires tore through the state, many teenagers felt a...
At the Front Door: Renewable and Carbon-Free Energy – a column on climate change in our lives Renewable and carbon-free energy is cheaper than fossil fuels! Don’t believe me? Look at your energy bill. San Jose has a program called San Jose Clean Energy, which is one...
At the Front Door: Climate Change & the Bay Area – a column on climate change in our lives A few years ago, I started to wonder what success means to me. I came across the story of Watsi, the first non-profit to join Y-Combinator. In his startup school video,...
The Environmental Burdens on our Neighbors Silicon Valley has been one of the greatest wealth generators in the United States. Yet this wealth has come at a price, one that hasn’t been shared equally amongst the residents of the Bay Area. The more ‘visual’ costs, such...
Sri Muppidi, a 25 year-old Stanford graduate, is running for city council in her hometown, Dublin. She may be one of the youngest candidates in the surge of South Asians running for office in the Bay Area – but Sri tells DesiCollective she is motivated by the...
