McSilver Creative is my independent consultancy. We've produced content and communications that make life better.

Recent work includes editing luxury blog content for AFAR Media and See Monterey, creating a wildfire education initiative for the nation's largest regional park district, and writing economic development articles for the City of Oakland and the San Francisco Business Times.

Time to Trim Those Trees

A year-round fire season is now the “new normal” in California. The 2018 wildfire season was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season on record in California. The Park District is actively working every day to reduce the fuel load in regional parks and maintaining healthy forests by thinning excessive growth. While the Park District's efforts to reduce wildfire risk are extensive, it is the collective efforts of homeowners and neighbors that can have the greatest impact. Reduce fire fuels around your home and take other precautions to help prevent wildfires.

Uniquely Oakland

Welcome to Oakland, Calif., the best place on the planet to pursue prosperity. If that seems like exaggeration, consider this: Oakland is ideally located at the center of California’s $3 trillion state economy (an economy larger than that of the United Kingdom, France and India.) Oakland is also the geographic heart of the San Francisco Bay Area—the region recognized as the global capital of tech innovation, home to the nation’s highest GDP per capita, a magnet for the world’s smartest talent and a coveted place to live with unbeatable scenery, weather and cultural diversity.