About

Dave Room is black man of mixed origin born raised in Berkeley and living in Oakland. He has connected to several communities: the Bay Area, people of color, and eco-resilience.  He enjoys and is really good at getting things started and handing them off as appropriate.  His daughter is his inspiration.  Dave helped build Post Carbon Institute from its infancy.  Dave went on to co-found Bay Localize (baylocalize.org), a public benefit organization focused on building capacity for generating power, growing food, and capturing water in the Bay Area.  Dave is also the founder of the Hubbert Tribute (mkinghubbert.com) which educates policy makers about peak oil and researches energy policy history.  Dave does solo performance theater (The Monkey Trap) and Green Pill Workshops to awaken and activate mainstream audiences, people of color, and youth.  He coined the term Energy Preparedness and occasionally blogs for Green Option’s Ecolocalizer (ecolocalizer.com).  Dave was a key member of the Oil Independent Oakland by 2020 task force.