Finding beauty amidst the pandemic
Berkeley’s Black-owned salons and barbershops provide education, wellness and spaces for ‘me’-time.
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In West Berkeley, Perfect Day is making dairy products with no cows in sight
The innovative food-tech company creates milk proteins that retain everything people love about dairy, but in a much more sustainable way.
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The new normal: a green, upcycled and circular economy?
On Earth Day, we talked to the owners of two Berkeley storefront businesses, and one deep-tech innovator, about how they are taking environmental preservation into their own hands.
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Berkeley curators and crafters keep the city’s creative energy alive
Art businesses bring holiday cheer to a community sheltered at home.
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Connection and craft enable Berkeley women entrepreneurs to flourish during the pandemic
The new BerkeleyHolidays Gift Guide fosters community for female business owners — digitally. (Sponsored)
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Healthy foods made in Berkeley build immunity — and community
A host of Berkeley makers and bakers are nourishing locals and protecting minds and bodies from the impacts of COVID-19.
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Berkeley childcare providers find solutions, enable human interaction in time of isolation
Local childcare providers have risen to the challenge of looking after their charges during the pandemic. They have even found silver linings amid the heightened restrictions.
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Black-owned businesses in Berkeley demonstrate the city’s economic resilience
The stories of three Black enterprises demonstrate Berkeley’s economic diversity and ingenuity of its entrepreneurs, even amidst a pandemic.
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Small Business Week may be postponed, but Berkeley businesses keep innovating
Sponsored: Berkeley businesses are finding new ways to deliver value to the community – and society at large – in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Berkeley business innovations enable residents to spoil themselves while sheltering
Sponsored: Some of Berkeley’s small businesses are devising new products, services to survive through the pandemic.
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Alchemy Collective empowers its baristas with ownership, quality coffee
Sponsored: Alchemy is growing an innovative worker-owned café business that’s buzzing with community energy in the Lorin District.
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All Power Labs: Using the spirit of Burning Man to address climate change
[Sponsored] Berkeley-based All Power Labs makes machines that generate carbon-negative energy from agriculture waste materials.
