Replenish opened its doors last year on Webster Street with the goal of encouraging customers to buy its chemical-free home and personal care products in reusable containers. Laria Pippen, one of the owners, describes how the refill and reuse model works and how Alamedans have embraced the concept.

In this episode of the Island City Beat Podcast, we talk to Alameda City Council candidate Tyler Savage. We'll hear his views on a host of topics including housing, helping small businesses and how he would bring his background in Environmental policy making to be an effective leader in our city government.

On this episode, the Island City Beat Podcast interviews Alameda City Council candidate, Marcie Johnson. Tune in to hear her thoughts about a number of topics including housing, data centers, flock cameras and and why she hopes to be elected to the Alameda City Council.

In this episode of the Island City Beat Podcast, we talk to Alameda City Council candidate Maria Bondonno. We'll hear her views on a host of topics including housing, helping small businesses and how she would bring her background in law to be an effective leader in our city government.

City Council candidate Thushan Amarasiriwardena talks to us about his desire to bolster and protect Alameda's social fabric by creating affordable housing, doing more to support small business and returning to community policing among other ideas. It is another interview with a candidate in our series leading up to the Nov. 3 city election.

Podcast host: Laura Thomas

In our first interview of candidates for Alameda's city council election Nov. 3, we speak with Amos White, long-time Alamedan, political and environmental activist, about his background as a community advocate, his desire to listen to and represent all Alamedans and his love of the city's arts and diversity.

Podcast host: Laura Thomas

Isaac De La Fuente explains how his new business, Collab, provides services to Alamedans. Do you want a really special photo printed on a metal plate? A tee-shirt with a family photo? A coffee cup with your special artwork? Isaac can provide all sorts of image creation to meet your need. https://collabcreate.io/

In another instance of the old guard being challenged by the new, 36-year-old Berkeley resident Jamie Joyce, the director of Society Library, an internet repository of arguments from all points of view, is stepping up to challenge Lateefah Simon, Alameda's representative in congress. She represents a district with a legacy of progressive Democrats in office, but Joyce contends Simon may not be prepared for the challenge the forces behind artificial intelligence and the surveillance state present.