Thursday, February 28, 2008Oakland Is Fourth "Greenest City" Popular Science's America's 50 Greenest Cities "Want to see a model for successful and rapid environmental action? Don't look to the federal government—check out your own town. Here, our list of the 50 communities that are leading the way. Does yours make the cut?" from Novometro Labels: city of oakland, green, media, sustainability, www
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Sunday, February 24, 2008Recycled Glass Tile We're installing a beautiful recycled glass tile backsplash in the main cafe area! The tile is from our good friends at Ecohome Improvement -- if you haven't been over to their shop and paint bar and neighboring design studio, we recommend you make a trip! They've got green alternatives for many conventional building applications: tile, countertops, flooring, cabinets, no-voc paints (which we're using at the cafe), and much more! Check them out! Labels: build-out, community, green, sustainability
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Reused, Salvaged, and Community Created Counter We've been working on our main counter for Phase One, the world-class espresso bar. At it's core, is a re-used lab table from UC Berkeley Overstock and Surplus Den. We cut off the legs to make in the legal height for ADA access and added casters. We're now adding to that a redwood facade using the salvaged redwood from the old drop ceiling at the Golden Bull. The countertop was fabricated out of stainless-steel by a friend of the Awaken Cafe and the whole thing was put together by other members of this community! Stay tuned for more photos when we get it complete!     Labels: build-out, community, green, salvage, sustainability
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We're Extremely Pleased to Announce Two New Partners  The Awaken Cafe LLC is excited to announce our two newest members, Larry Biggie and Eric Berlow. They round out our team with years of experience in both business development and research. Both are profoundly committed to the redevelopment of Oakland into a world-class model city. They are both intelligent, creative, inspired, and a welcome addition to our team! We couldn't be happier to have them! You can read more about them here and contact them here. Labels: parnters
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Friday, January 25, 2008Awaken Cafe in the Tribune! The Awaken Cafe was featured in a great article by Angela Woodall in today's Tribune: "Downtown Oakland shines a little brighter with new venues: Atmosphere improving in area west of City Hall" Pick up a copy of the paper or check it out online and let us know what you think! Labels: city of oakland, media, spread the word
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Thursday, January 24, 2008Bay Area Coffee in the NY Times There's a great article about our friends at Blue Bottle in the New York Times. It's all about Blue Bottle's new siphon bar and another high end brew machine called Clover. Labels: coffee, community, world-class
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Monday, January 21, 2008We've Got Our Espresso Machine We recently purchased a three month old La Marzocco Linea, 3-Group, Semi-Automatic Espresso Machine and Mazzer Grinders. They're great machines and we got a good deal! We'll be pulling shots soon enough!   Labels: coffee, world-class
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First Entry Way Mosaic Complete
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Framing, Plumbing & Electrical Rough-in Complete We've completed all the framing, rough-in plumbing, and rough-in electrical for Phase One. Tomorrow the City of Oakland comes to sign off on the plumbing and then we can finish closing in all the walls with sheetrock. The facade is also nearing completion! We're so close, I can smell the coffee!   Labels: build-out
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008Jack London Square Graffiti Saw this downtown last night. Someone is doing gorilla marketing for us. They forgot the "N". Labels: city of oakland, spread the word
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Thursday, January 3, 2008Let There Be Lights! Our new signs are powered by long-lasting, low-voltage LEDs, saving energy and a little bit of our Earth's natural resources. They also look fabulous at night! Labels: arts, build-out, green, sustainability
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Friday, December 28, 2007Wednesday, December 19, 2007Framing Out Phase One We finished the ceiling in the Phase One area and started framing out the walls today! Labels: build-out
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Thursday, December 13, 2007Signs Are Installed Just got word (and the photos you see here) that the new signs have been installed. They look great! Thanks to Thomas and Orion for a job well done!    
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Thursday, December 6, 2007The Story of Stuff A friend of mine, Erica Priggen, produced this really great movie and passed it on to me: "The Story of Stuff". Since we're planning on selling stuff, it's good to look at our role in this system so that we can be responsible for reducing the impact of the stuff we consume and sell. Check it out and let us know what you think! Labels: community, green, sustainability, www
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