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Jocelyn Gama Puts the Hyphy in Multi-Hyphenate
Jocelyn Gama is a college student, activist, educator, athlete, model, and fashion designer. “I’m focused on helping my community heal,” she says.
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Behind the Scenes in Game Design
KneeDeep interviewed Marcy Brown, master of “Death by a Thousand Breaths,” about what went into her thinking in designing a 90-minute, live action role-playing Dungeons and Dragons game called Cerulean Port City.
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Polar Bears, Black Boys, and Orchids Center Stage
Durham’s play Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids is a story of not only wildlife conservation and low-flow toilets, but of police brutality, grief, and our relationship with the living creatures around us.
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Chasing the Fireline
In California, climate change has has left a collection of wildfire hazard zone maps, published 15 years ago, out of date.
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National Toolkit Offers Steps & Metrics
The Resilience Metrics website is like a food-for-thought buffet for project planners. This toolkit offers a set of questions designed to get a project on track and to help participants measure performance.
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Pricing Climate Risk
To get the basics of pricing the risks of climate change, you could do worse than to talk to Dag Lohmann. He knows just how much creeping climate change is changing insurance arithmetic.
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In-Depth
30 East Bay Partners Gel on Adaptation Path
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.
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Burning for Action
The ironies pressed in on me: Here I am on a plane, helping to destroy the planet for a vacation, while reading Naomi Klein’s latest climate crisis book ON FIRE.
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Seeking Friends for the End of the World
Could making friends with your neighbors be the secret to climate resilience? “All my homies are locally-sourced, non-GMO and gluten-free,” writes Maylin Tu of Los Angeles.
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Cruising the San Pablo Spine — A Green Streets Test Lab
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.
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Overhauling Insurance for the New Normal
In the era of global warming, an invisible force, as primal as atmospheric chemistry, is coming to bear on human pocketbooks. Even if you don’t believe in climate change, insurance companies do.
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Coast Leaders Talk Graceful Withdrawal
In two brief audio interviews, KneeDeep Times asks the Coastal Conservancy’s Amy Hutzel and the Coastal Commission’s Mary Matella for their perspective on planned withdrawal from sea level rise and the crumbling coast.
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KneeDeep recently profiled Jocelyn Gama, an #Oakland college student, activist, educator, athlete, model, and fashion designer.
Read about her philosophy of community change in "Jocelyn Gama Puts the Hyphy in Multi-Hyphenate," by Justin Lai.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/jocelyn-gama-puts-the-hyphy-in-multi-hyphenate
Last year, @noka_oi reported that this 21-mile waterfront road is among the Bay Area’s most vulnerable to sea level rise, and is already inundated during wet winters. The issues with highway 37 are now coming to a head. Read more:
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/dodging-a-bullet-on-the-highway-37-redesign/
#Highway37
Talks on Highway 37’s future underway as sea-level threat looms https://bayareane.ws/3QdrGz6
The irony of reading about the climate crisis while flying across the country was not lost on @chrsdcook. In his essay for our July issue, Burning for Action, Cook reflects on the "searing urgency and clarity" of #ClimateAction, and how it might look.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/burning-for-action
"Storytelling and gaming, specifically role-playing, have the power to inspire action and build community," says Marcy Brown, the game's creator and master. "Storytelling is how we first made sense of the world around us, and understand our place in it."
Tomorrow (July 30), @MyceliumYouth and the @exploratorium will host a #dungeonsanddragons game all about environmental problem-solving. Learn about more about it in our exclusive interview with Marcy Brown, the game's creator.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/behind-the-scenes-in-game-design/
#dnd #EnvironmentalJustice https://twitter.com/exploratorium/status/1549438856990056448
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