Coffee Social 4-2-13 – Lifespan, Healthspan, Sickspan
One of our coffee guests this week is writing a book on the art and science of extending the healthy years of your life, or “true longevity.” We jumped all over this topic with a million questions, tangents, and anecdotes. Eking out a few more years of lifespans (sickspan?) with fancy drugs and surgeries is […]
CoWORKer of the Week – Vanessa Bauch
By Maggie Hohle – www.maggietext.com Vanessa Bauch isn’t just a successful freelance advertising copywriter who writes copy for online ads, websites, print ads, packaging, collateral and ephemera for clients of all sizes [Red Lobster, Yahoo, NetShelter on the big side, local companies and individual consultants on the smaller side], she’s an innovator who knew the benefits […]
Lunchtime Lecture – Perfect Posture, Friday March 15, Noon
Achy From Sitting Too Much? Try This! Please click here to RSVP… Count how many hours you sit every day. No wonder we have headaches, back pain, neck or shoulder trouble, creaky hips and more. We evolved for bipedal motion. Our ancient bodies are stuck a contemporary world. Sitting has surpassed motion and we pay for […]
coWORKer of the week: Clementine Eco Events
February 25, 2013 – By Maggie Hohle – www.maggietext.com Clementine Eco Events is co-owned by Vanessa Hauswald, director of Nor-Cal High School Cycling League; Elizabeth Howland, executive director of Friends of the Petaluma River; and Kelin Castleberry Backman, event planner extraordinaire. WORK plays an important part in Clementine’s community-oriented (and green) event planning by acting as […]
FarmShorts: North Bay Launch Party @ WORK, Friday Feb 15, 5-7PM
Don’t miss this fabulous event! Stop by for a Valentines toast to kick off the FarmShorts North Bay campaign – a shared benefit web video initiative to create short films for sustainable farms and food producers to help them tell their story and market their offerings. Through sponsorship and crowdfunding , we co-promote with local […]
coWORKer Maggie Hohle
by Maggie Hohle I spent my childhood trying to explain to classmates what my parents did for a living. In the late ‘70s, when most people’s parents worked with their hands, “teaching graphic design,” which my dad did at state colleges around the country, wasn’t as comprehensible to the majority of high schoolers as it […]
Coworker Tom Harrison – Cartographer
By Maggie Hohle Tom Harrison is the ultimate in a combination of old school low-tech reality and contemporary technology, a pioneer and leader in a niche market where attention to detail makes a difference in the real world: mapmaking. He makes accurate full-color shaded-relief topographic maps for hiking, mountain biking and backpacking in California’s parks, forests […]
Save Less, Share More?
Contrary to conventional wisdom, should we actually be saving less and sharing more? In preparation for our upcoming DRINKS+THINKS I sat down with Scott Collier of Slow Money and Trathen Heckman and Carolyne Stayton of Transition US to discuss their work in the movement to transform our relationship to money, community, and Earth. What started […]
DRINKS+THINKS – Friday Jan 18th, 7PM – Save Less & Share More
FRIDAY JANUARY 18TH 7 PM @ WORK Petaluma (10 Fourth St @ B, across from Acre Coffee) Please click here to RSVP @ Meetup.com (The last session was very popular so RSVP is appreciated!) A contemporary salon for extraordinary ideas WORK Petaluma hosts a modern twist on the traditional salon, entertaining you with conversations on fascinating […]
Modern Design Gets to Work in California’s Wine Country
By Corey Sabourin During a visit to my hometown of Petaluma, one hour north of San Francisco, I was intrigued to learn about the latest project to hit this preservation-chic city. A one-story nondescript law office built in 1963 had been transformed into a shared workspace called Work with an aesthetic I dare “very Seventies,” […]
