Quick Reads
Am I A Climate Refugee?
We moved to Washington to be free of the smoke, but apparently we can’t escape climate change.
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Post-Election Review of Climate Results
The 2022 midterm election saw the passage of various measures throughout the Bay Area to advance California’s climate goals.
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Teaching to Weather the Storms Within
Between gasping sobs, a boy in a viral video explains that he’s upset because of climate change. San Mateo county’s education office is trying to help.
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Is Weed Greener Indoors or Out?
Although cannabis has a reputation as an environmentally-friendly plant, indoor cannabis cultivation demands significant energy to maintain precise light and temperature requirements. Last year, Colorado State researchers published the first study on the topic.
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Warren Logan’s Fight for Safer Streets
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.
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Feathered Flames
Among the more well-known causes of wildfire — lightning, volcanic activity, neglected cigarettes, gender reveal parties gone awry — there remains a less notorious culprit: electrocuted birds.
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In-Depth
San Mateo County Pieces Falling Into Place
A plan to protect SFO could become a critical link in a chain of resilience projects along the San Mateo County bayshore. But projects that cross jurisdictional borders, get complicated.
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North Fair Oaks Residents Create Clean Air Refuges
When he purchased a house, Ever Rodriguez noticed how North Fair Oaks differed from surrounding areas. “We don’t have the same infrastructure or services as in Menlo Park.”
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California Reeling: When Mudslides Follow Wildfires
Curtis Skene experienced loss and adaptation first hand after the deadly Montecito mudslide in 2018. The slide was triggered by a cascade of extreme events and climate change heightens the risk they will converge again.
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Sonoma Taps Undeveloped Land in Climate Fight
This fall, Sonoma County officially enlisted its abundance of undeveloped lands in the fight to adapt to climate change. Last month, the county approved a “Climate Resilient Lands” strategy.
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Could Textured Tiles Bring SF Seawall to Life?
Buried in the blueprints for a refurbished San Francisco seawall is a cutting-edge experiment in texturing pieces of this buttress against sea level rise so they attract native species.
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Flipping the Switch on All-Electric Housing
An East Palo Alto affordable housing project is at the forefront of a trend cities across California are trying to encourage: switching from natural gas appliances to electric ones. But the transition isn’t without headaches.
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CHATTER
We awarded three honorable mentions for our first ever ClimateCraft student reporting contest. Check them out:
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/excerpts-from-climatecraft-student-reporting-contest
Grimes and Belvedere are both poised to get tens of millions from FEMA for flood protection. We visited the two small Northern California towns — a "severely disadvantaged community" and one of the richest places in the US — to learn about their plans.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/two-towns-shortlisted-for-fema-millions/
Excited to finally get to share this piece on the North Fair Oaks Community Alliance and wildlife smoke resilience for unincorporated communities with @KneeDeepTimes https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/north-fair-oaks-residents-create-clean-air-refuges/
In case you're getting back to work this morning and looking for some hope...I asked some folks who work on the climate crisis what keeps them going: https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2022-11-24/climate-future-dont-give-up-hope-boiling-point
"Focused regional approaches to climate adaptation along the shoreline make sense," says the initiative's CEO. "Because if a project crosses borders, things get super complicated.”
Reporting by @cariadt.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/san-mateo-county-pieces-falling-into-place/
#sfo #sealevelrise #Adaptation #climate #SFbay
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