Housewarming Party for David Brower Center!

David Brower used to say “have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.” Well, we’re taking him at his word, and we’re planning our very first party! Come enjoy Dave’s favorite drink, a martini, and dance with friends to the soulful grooves of Radio Devi.

Tickets are $20 and all proceeds support the Center.

What use is a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
—Henry David Thoreau

The great environmentalist David Brower, whose lifework was the quest for a tolerable planet, loved Thoreau's line and often quoted it to his audiences. But the question can be turned around: How do you achieve a tolerable planet without a house dedicated to that Herculean effort?

The David Brower Center will be a home for the environmental movement of the twenty-first century. The building will feature the greenest of green architecture. Where Thoreau built his cabin at Walden for $28.12 worth of salvaged materials—the Brower Center will improve on that start: non-toxic materials; natural daylighting and ventilation; high-performance building envelope; solar panels. The Center, in its four floors and over 50,000 square feet, will house the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Theater, the Hazel Wolf Gallery, a restaurant, meeting rooms, collaborative common space, and office space for nonprofits and progressive for-profits. Under one photovoltaic roof in the heart of Berkeley, activists, business people, students, and visitors from around the world will meet, eat, exchange ideas, and work toward a just and ecologically sustainable society.