Berkeley solar energy activists took offense to an online “love” letter last month to customers from PG&E CEO Patricia Poppe and responded with a Valentine of their own. 

The sentiment of her message sparked a civil protest. Activists from the Solar Rights Alliance, an advocacy group for solar energy users, on Tuesday set up a table at the South Berkeley Farmers’ Market to offer people the chance to tell PG&E what they think in the context of an “un-Valentine”card. The group collected dozens of handmade cards, which they mailed to Poppe. 

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.