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Three things stand out this week. 9Zero runs two free evening sessions in the Financial District, one tonight on the skills gap where distributed energy meets data centers and one Thursday launching a water cluster with live reservoir data on screen. SPUR is in San José on Tuesday with a free, hybrid briefing on the state ballot measures. And Saturday is unusually good: a day-long solarpunk gathering on Broadway, a queer and trans volunteer morning at the Marin Headlands nursery, a sunset marsh walk on Bair Island, and Health In Harmony turning twenty at the Exploratorium. Twenty-five events below. Twelve are free and open to anyone, and four more are free once your registration is approved. ## Tonight and tomorrow * **Preparing the Next Generation for Distributed Energy & Critical Infrastructure**, tonight 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the 9Zero hub on California Street. Free, with a non-member ticket for your first three 9Zero events and no approval step. * **Ballots & Brews: San José**, Tuesday 6:00 to 7:30 PM at CreaTV San José, free and also on Zoom. * **AI is already making decisions at work. The question is which ones stay human.** , Tuesday 6:00 to 8:30 PM at SRI in Palo Alto. Free, with a book for every guest. Registration opens at 5:30 and the organizers suggest arriving by 5:45. * **Founder Peer Group Meetup: Discovery Mode** , Tuesday 5:00 to 7:00 PM at 9Zero. Free, approval required. ## This week in San Francisco ### Monday 12 October **Preparing the Next Generation for Distributed Energy & Critical Infrastructure** Hosted by 9Zero · their calendar · 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 350 California St, 4th floor · 5:00 to 7:00 PM · Free, on either a member ticket or a non-member ticket good for your first three 9Zero events A working session on the skill gaps opening up where distributed energy, data centers and critical infrastructure overlap, including a live learning exercise, for people in energy, infrastructure, education and workforce development. ### Tuesday 13 October **Founder Peer Group Meetup: Discovery Mode** Hosted by 9Zero · their calendar · 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 350 California St, 4th floor · 5:00 to 7:00 PM · Free, approval required A fireside chat with Mantle founder Kieran White and 9Zero co-founder Matthew Joehnk about the six months White spent testing assumptions before settling on what to build. 9Zero describes its Peer Groups as role-based groups for members at your level, and registration asks whether you are a member yet. ### Wednesday 14 October **Ladies Lunch** Hosted by Trellis Coworking & Events · their calendar · meet at the Trellis front desk, 981 Mission St, and walk to Tropisueno · 12:00 to 1:00 PM · Free to RSVP, lunch at the restaurant not included A short midday Mexican lunch for women, walking over together from Trellis. RSVP and arrive before noon. **The Thrift Flip: Resale Panel & Sashiko Workshop** Hosted by Rethink The Runway with Women in Cleantech and Sustainability · their calendar · event page · The Port Room, Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building · 5:30 to 8:30 PM · $25 general admission, with two free sponsored tickets available by request A resale panel with people from Treet, TheNOBO and The Wardrobe Project on where resale models go next, then a hands-on sashiko workshop where you patch or mend a worn garment you bring. Supplies, non-alcoholic drinks and dessert included. ### Thursday 15 October **Water Resources Cluster: How is California's Water Doing?** Hosted by 9Zero · their calendar · 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 350 California St, 4th floor · 5:00 to 7:00 PM · Free, approval required, on either a member ticket or a "new to 9Zero" ticket good for your first three events The launch of a water cluster for founders, researchers and operators, walking through whether this drought cycle is unusual, what water actually costs across farms, cities and industry, and who controls California's supply, using live NOAA, CDEC and state water data. ### Friday 16 October **Women Networking Mixer** Hosted by Trellis Coworking & Events · their calendar · 981 Mission St · 3:00 to 5:00 PM · Free, limited availability, so check registration A happy hour mixer for women professionals at any career stage, with drinks available at the bar. ### Saturday 17 October **Shared Origins, Bright Mutual Future** Hosted by CrowdDoing and Solarpunkification · event page · Mabuhay Gardens, 435 Broadway · 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM · Free, with a suggested $10 donation ticket. Food is for sale on site rather than included A day-long solarpunk gathering: breakfast and singing bowls from 8:00, a welcome at 9:30, a live uplink to the ORIGIN global broadcast, a two-hour Warm Data Lab conversation facilitated across the whole room, then an afternoon of short talks on regenerative development, green schools and reimagining Mabuhay Gardens itself. Closing sound bowls around 3:30, and a caravan to the Bay Area Decompression in Oakland afterward. **20 Years of Health In Harmony: Healthy People, Healthy Forests, Healthy Planet** Hosted by Health In Harmony · event page · Exploratorium, Embarcadero, full address shared with registrants · 7:30 to 10:30 PM · Free The planetary health organization marks twenty years with live music, dancing and remarks from board members and leaders on its work alongside Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant communities and local communities. Headlining is DJ Eric Terena, of the Terena people of the Cachoeirinha Indigenous Territory in Brazil's Pantanal. ## On the Peninsula & South Bay ### Tuesday 13 October **Ballots & Brews: San José (State Measures)** Hosted by SPUR · CreaTV San José, 38 S Second Street · 6:00 to 7:30 PM · Free · in person and on Zoom SPUR policy staff walk through the state measures on the November ballot, what each would do and the context behind them, and share SPUR's own positions and recommendations. There are no local measures on the San José ballot this election. **AI is already making decisions at work. The question is which ones stay human.** Presented by Northeastern University Silicon Valley and SRI International · event page · SRI Auditorium, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto · 6:00 to 8:30 PM · Free A keynote and Q&A with Paula Goldman, Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer at Salesforce, on her book about human-AI collaboration at work and keeping people at the center of AI rollouts. Reception and book signing after, with a free copy for every guest. Registration opens at 5:30 and the organizers suggest arriving by 5:45. ### Wednesday 14 October **Veggielution x Acterra Orchard Care Day** Hosted by Acterra · their calendar · Veggielution orchard, 647 S King Rd, San Jose · 9:00 to 11:30 AM · Price not listed Mulching and tree care to build out a food forest, plus a short lesson on water conservation and fruit tree health. No pre-registration: sign in and complete the waiver on arrival. Volunteers 13 and up, with ages 13 to 17 accompanied by an adult. It runs rain or shine, and only extreme weather would cancel it, announced by email. **Yellowstone to Yukon: Conservation through Connection** Hosted by Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative · event page · Pedro Point Firehouse, 1227 Danmann Ave, Pacifica · 6:00 to 7:30 PM · Free, approval required Y2Y president and chief scientist Jodi Hilty on protecting core wildlife habitat and corridors across a region roughly three times the size of California, and on supporting the communities inside it. Reception first, remarks at 6:30. ### Saturday 17 October **Day on the Bay** Presented by Santa Clara County Parks and the county's District 3 Office · Alviso Marina County Park, main entrance, 1195 Hope Street, San José · 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM · Free A free afternoon at the Alviso marina, and San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society will be there with its watershed model and a table of resources about the refuge. **Youth Innovators: From Design Thinking to Impact** Hosted by Good Morning Silicon Valley Association · event page · Zenpack, 1050 N 5th St #30, San Jose · 12:00 to 5:00 PM · $50 · approval required A hands-on design thinking workshop the organizers describe as being for high school students, working with Silicon Valley professionals on problems like single-use packaging, electronic waste and secondhand fashion. Participants present in groups in the afternoon and leave with a certificate. **Bair Island Sunset Walk** Hosted by San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society · Bair Island, 680 Bair Island Rd, Redwood City, meeting at the seal dedication statue · 5:30 to 6:30 PM · Free, and parking is free An easy guided walk on a flat dirt trail through the marshlands at dusk, when the birds come out, with the area's history and ways to protect the ecosystem along the way. Binoculars to borrow, no pets, and bring warm layers because it cools fast after sunset. The observation deck 0.4 miles along the trail is closed at the moment, as are the public restrooms, and minors need an adult with them the whole way. ## East Bay & North Bay ### Friday 16 October **East Lake Oakland Neighbor Potluck & Skill Share: Rainwater Catchment** Hosted by Resili: East Lake Oakland · event page · near 10th Ave and E 18th St, Oakland, address shared with registrants · 5:30 to 7:30 PM · Free, approval required A family-friendly monthly neighborhood gathering: a casual potluck, a round of introductions where people name what they need and what they can offer, and a skill share on rain barrel catchment systems and adopting a storm drain ahead of a strong El Niño. ### Saturday 17 October **Belonging in Nature: Queer and Trans in the Nurseries** Hosted by Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy · Marin Headlands Native Plant Nursery, 1301 Kirkpatrick St., Mill Valley · 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM · Free, registration required A volunteer morning at the native plant nursery, a program hosted by an all-queer staff, with an invitation to find community and grow with them. Work shifts with the season and may include transplanting seedlings, pruning, processing seeds and keeping the facility going. **Family Bird Walk** Hosted by San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society · San Francisco Bay NWR Visitor Contact Station, 2 Marshlands Rd, Fremont · 12:00 to 2:00 PM · Free · register here Kids make their own bird-watching field guides, then walk the trails to find the birds in them, led by longtime refuge volunteer Ken Roux. Recommended for ages 5 to 10, all welcome, and a limited number of binoculars to borrow. **Community Open House + Presidio Speaker Series: The Future Is Shared** Hosted by the University of Redlands Presidio Center for Sustainable Solutions · register here · Founders Hall, Room 101, University of Redlands San Anselmo Campus, 105 Seminary Road, San Anselmo · 3:00 to 8:00 PM · Free and open to the public An afternoon on campus built around one question: what meaningful corporate climate action looks like beyond goals and commitments. Class visits from 3:00 on systems, sustainability and social justice and on marketing and communications for social impact, a campus tour at 5:00, then a conversation at 5:30 led by Jim Giles, Vice President and Editor-at-Large at Trellis Group. A community reception runs 6:30 to 8:00. **The steamy romance of a universal basic income** Hosted by Local Economy · 6028 College Ave, Oakland · 6:00 to 7:30 PM · $10, flexible pricing Novelist Alexandra Romanoff, whose _Big Fan_ follows a political strategist chasing a pop star's endorsement for a universal basic income campaign, in conversation with Natalie Foster, author of _The Guarantee_ , on guaranteed income, healthcare, housing and care as economic rights. ### Sunday 18 October **Get Out the Vote! Postcard Writing Session** Hosted by Local Economy · 6028 College Ave, Oakland · 2:00 to 4:00 PM · $5 suggested donation for materials · registration closed An afternoon writing postcards to voters who do not always vote or who skipped recent primaries. Addresses, postcards, a script, pens, stamps and snacks are provided. Registration is closed for this one, so keep an eye on Local Economy's calendar for the next. ## Virtual ### Wednesday 14 October **Virtual Civic Hack Night** Hosted by SF Civic Tech · event page · online · 6:30 to 9:00 PM · Free SF Civic Tech's weekly volunteer session: fixing government services, building visualizations from open data and reaching people left out of the Bay Area's economic boom. Join an existing project, pitch your own, or just watch. The organizers say no tech experience of any kind is needed. ### Friday 16 October **From Profile to Pipeline: Building Your LinkedIn Presence and Outreach System** Hosted by Women in Cleantech and Sustainability · their calendar · online · 12:00 to 1:00 PM · $30 general, with lower WCS member and student rates The last workshop in WCS's Green Career Shift series, led by career strategist Lisa B. Saxe, on building a stronger LinkedIn presence and a research-driven system for reaching out to organizations as a thought partner. It is built to stand alone. **Monthly Virtual Networking** Hosted by Women in Cleantech and Sustainability · their calendar · online · 4:00 to 5:00 PM · Free, WCS members only The chapter's standing monthly hour on Zoom. ### Saturday 17 October **350 East Bay Monthly Meeting** Hosted by 350 East Bay, a chapter of 350 Bay Area · Zoom · 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM · Price not listed The chapter's monthly working meeting on maximizing climate action in the East Bay and a just transition to a clean energy economy. Newcomers can come half an hour early for a short orientation at 10:00. ## Looking ahead **The Friction Point: How Acterra Turns Climate Tech into Community Adoption** · Tuesday 20 October, 5:00 to 7:00 PM · 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 350 California St, 4th floor · Free, approval required. Hosted by 9Zero with Acterra. **Resilience in Richmond: A Funders Tour** · Monday 19 October, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM · Urban Tilth North Richmond Farm, 323 Brookside Dr, Richmond · Free. A six-stop tour of how the Richmond Our Power Coalition is building a just transition through organizing, land remediation, small business development, community land trusts and decarbonized homes. Nearly full, with a waitlist open, so RSVP today if you want it. **Meeting the Moment: The Voices Powering the West** · Wednesday 21 October, networking at 5:30 and panel at 6:00 · Pattern Energy office, 1088 Sansome St, San Francisco · $10. Hosted by Young Professionals in Energy, SF Bay Area. **Fifth Annual San Mateo County Climate Summit** · Saturday 24 October, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM · College of San Mateo, Bayview Dining Room, 1700 W. Hillsdale Blvd, Building 10, San Mateo · Price not listed. Hosted by Climate Resilient Communities, Rise and Nuestra Casa.

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On October 14, join us alongside experts from Embold Research, Climate Power, and Data for Progress for an exclusive, data-driven briefing on public perception trends around data centers. We’ll break down the latest shifts in public opinion and equip you with actionable messaging strategies to power your advocacy.  Please register in advance. We will record this session and if you are unable to attend, please register to ensure you receive a follow-up email with the recording and resources shared during the session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. humorously addressed Palace Press Officer Undersecretary Claire Castro for sharing his private remark about Vice President Sara Duterte during a media briefing. The President clarified that his comment 'buwaon,' which translates to 'liar' in Waray, was meant for Castro alone during a private conversation. Marcos expressed surprise that Castro had shared the remark publicly, stating, 'Ay bakit mo sinabi (why did you tell them)... That's just supposed to be [between] the two of us.' Castro had previously translated the term during a palace briefing on September 28, saying, 'Ito po ang mismong mensahe ng Pangulo: Mga buwaon. Translate natin, mga sinungaling,' referring to Duterte's allegations that his administration was trying to undermine her and push for Charter Change to stop the 2028 elections. Marcos dismissed the allegations as 'fake news' and challenged Duterte to provide evidence. The President also discussed preparations for Super El Niño, advising the public to collect rainwater and promising government distribution of water filters. Additionally, he addressed concerns over China Coast Guard interference in the West Philippine Sea and commented on the proposed social media ban for minors, emphasizing the need for education over prohibition. Marcos stressed that while other countries have implemented similar bans, the government is assessing whether it would effectively protect children or simply drive them to hide their online activities.

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Full analysis — Huang Goodman Intelligence