What are your biggest ideas on how to solve the housing crisis? How has housing impacted/shaped your life?
Throughout this season, we wanted to hear from you – the SOLD OUT audience. We asked you to get in touch, and you came through! Through voice memos, email and social media, dozens of listeners reached out and shared stories of housing insecurity and los ... Show More
Feb 2023
Malcolm Harris, "Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" (Little, Brown, 2023)
Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley, whose products ... Show More
1h 2m
Jul 2024
California At A Climate Crossroads
California has strong, clean air and clean energy goals that are currently aligned with federal policy. Arguably, the state has never had so much climate momentum. And now, with Kamala Harris poised as the Democratic standard bearer, the Golden State could see one of its own in t ... Show More
11m 44s
Dec 2023
Palo Alto: The Grit Beneath Tech’s Glitter
Join us for a conversation on the seedy underside to Tech’s past, present, and future. This event took place on May 30, 2023.
If the industry’s most credulous boosters are to be taken at their word, the contemporary tech industry is an economic freight train driven by big-brained ... Show More
1h 28m
Jul 5
"Screaming For Leadership" - California Voters DEMAND New Home Construction Amid 2.5M Housing CRISIS
California voters rank housing as the top issue, demanding action on the affordability crisis. The PBD Podcast breaks down Newsom’s stalled leadership, environmental red tape, and how California’s housing failures are driving residents to leave the state in record numbers.
14m 25s