David Foecke

David Foecke is a retired social entrepreneur, community organizer, and meditation teacher. 

 

During his career, David co-founded three social justice non-profit organizations, including the East Bay Meditation Center, in Oakland, and a for-profit restaurant, Cafe Flora, in Seattle.  

 

He is currently the volunteer organizer of the Youth Vs. Apocalypse Club at his son's school, the Melrose Leadership Academy, which won a campaign in December 2023, featured in the Oaklandside, to force the Oakland Unified School District to shut down the gas-fired boiler at their campus during upcoming renovations, and replace it with an all-electric heat pump, thereby eliminating 74 metric tons of annual CO2 emissions. 

 

David also serves on the OUSD Sustainability Advisory Council and the Steering Committee of the Stop OAK Expansion Coalition, working to stop the Port of Oakland's plans to expand the Oakland airport. 

 

He would be happy to talk your ear off about heat pump, induction, and EV technologies, since he has converted his family's home, where he lives with his wife and son, into a fossil-fuel-free space. He has made a personal vow that, on his deathbed, he will be able to tell his son that he did everything in his power to leave him a livable world. 

 

David is famous, amongst friends, for his homemade fig bars, made from the bounty of afig tree in the back yard.