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Biomedical engineer Cynthia Prieto-Diaz is bringing DIY air quality monitors, community cleanups, and a punk spirit to environmental activism in San Leandro.
Everyday Climate Champions Podcast
An unincorporated area of Alameda County identified by local government as in need of more park space got a new, climate resilient gathering spot and “town square” this summer.
All Stories
A collaborative planning committee is shopping strategies to safeguard East Bay shores from sea level rise, groundwater, and stormwater flooding.
Biomedical engineer Cynthia Prieto-Diaz is bringing DIY air quality monitors, community cleanups, and a punk spirit to environmental activism in San Leandro.
Everyday Climate Champions Podcast
An unincorporated area of Alameda County identified by local government as in need of more park space got a new, climate resilient gathering spot and “town square” this summer.
From pumas to newts to humans, Bay Area residents are benefiting from new road crossing projects in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and Alameda.
My landscape maintenance company has a front row seat to how climate change is changing Bay Area gardens. Here’s what a water-wise garden looks like.
Oakland plans three main resilience hubs. Activists say funding a more decentralized network could be more equitable.
A May 2024 environmental conference covers levees, seawalls, reefs, wetlands, and other climate resilient shoreline designs for the Bay Area.
UCSC scientist Rae Taylor-Burns has assigned marsh restoration projects a dollar value in terms of human assets protected from climate change driven flooding.
Two Bay Area gardens are getting a boost from a new, country-wide seed sharing model promoting permaculture.
Partners push for three projects and a big grant to protect a critical swath of the East Bay shoreline from sea-level and groundwater rise.
The City of Alameda is planning to de-pave an area of the former Alameda Naval Air station the size of nine football fields and transform it into an ecological nature park.
Shoreline residents from San Francisco and Contra Costa counties could soon be better equipped to influence local planning decisions.
After a car crash, Janet Byron switched to an e-bike. Now she is a bike evangelist — and the City of El Cerrito is listening
The Bay Area’s mild weather is a liability for its residents in the face of growing heat risks from temperature swings to hotter nights. But what exactly makes the heat linger?
Regional agencies made splashy headlines when they released a joint study on the likely cost of protecting Bay Area shores from rising seas: $110 billion. But the top-line number didn’t offer much insight into the complexities. A new inventory and map from the same agencies is much more revealing.
The region is obsessing over beach-building. Whether it’s a degraded salt marsh in downtown San Rafael or a sliver of wetlands near the old San Francisco shipyards, local practitioners are adding beaches as nature-based buffers against waves and rising seas to adaptation projects around the Bay.
33 Fruitvale homes in Oakland could look forward to improved air quality, lowered water usage, greener energy and an innovation in the local energy system called a microgrid through a project called EcoBlock.
Debbie Harris directs Urban Adamah, a Jewish urban farm in Northwest Berkeley. She is a farmer by trade but her role at Urban Adamah requires her to be “a horticulturalist, a plumber, a therapist, a teacher, an organizer.”
Coastal erosion in Pacifica, drought in Brentwood, fires in the North Bay, flooding in Union City, and urban heat in San Jose. Anissa Foster takes us on a revealing virtual tour.
Research confirms the drastic impacts wildfire smoke has had on school learning. But 16 East Bay schools now have updated air filters and more actions are in the pipeline statewide.
The 14 graduates of the inaugural 2021 Oakland Shoreline Leadership Academy have new skills to confront the rising tide head-on. “It’s completely changed how I look at the environment,” confesses Academy alum Shy Walker.
Warren Logan is confident that if we fight for safer streets, we can have them. “In Oakland you are more likely to be hit by a car than cancer or a stray bullet,” he says.
Faced with a health crisis, or stifling heat or smoke, most people will go somewhere familiar for help, a place they feel welcome. Oakland Chinatown’s Lincoln Center is that kind of safe haven, the perfect location for one of the city’s new “resilience hubs.”
After a career of school administration and community engagement, Wanda Stewart saw firsthand how schools can be a central space for activating people.
On an overcast June afternoon at Bay Farm Island’s Veterans Court, Danielle Mieler explains that if it weren’t for low tide, water might be at her feet.
From tattoo parlors to senior housing, San Pablo Avenue has it all. Now the busy thoroughfare is also a testbed for a distributed network of rain gardens.
Hop on a speeding bicycle with photographer Lonny Meyer as he travels the urban artery that is San Pablo Avenue and visits green infrastructure installations.
Take a drive from the Oakland Airport to the Coliseum, and it’s impossible not to feel the consequences of urban decay: potholes. Luckily, a trio of high school sophomores are proposing an unlikely solution: tree sap.
After years of historical injustice, community action and vision, coupled with ballpark redevelopment opportunities, are raising East Oakland’s resilience.
Shadow future Oakland influencers as they learn about their shoreline in this up close 7-minute video by journalist Kristine Wong.
Oakland residents are fighting for better, cleaner transit access to the shore, and bike routes that don’t take them on freeway overpasses and through the bad air of industrial zones. The new Power the People project…
If late fall fires start up again after the October deluge, Alameda County will already have smoke alert protocols in place. The county developed specific thresholds and delivery systems for alerts over the past two years. “Our geography…