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Refreshing Santa Clara County Rivers
Santa Clara’s National River Cleanup Day brought together 596 volunteers and resulted in over 25,000 pounds of trash collected. “It was one of the first times since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when we could actually organize group cleanups,” says Valley Water’s Nick Ingram
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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In California, climate change has has left a collection of wildfire hazard zone maps, published 15 years ago, out of date.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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How Rivers in the Sky Travel Across the Ocean
In California, our fate swings from drought to floods, depending largely on whether or not we get rainstorms called atmospheric rivers.
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Retreat By Any Other Name
“Retreat can conjure failure, and nobody wants to be managed,” explained the study’s lead author Amanda Stolz at the California Social Coast Forum this March. Part of the problem is the term itself. One Pacifica resident quoted in the study commented, “Managed retreat’ is a code word for give up — on our homes and the town itself.”
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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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High Schoolers Propose Green Solution to Oakland’s Road Blight
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.
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New Jersey Shells Out for Retreat
New Jersey’s Blue Acres program buys homes in flood-prone areas and converts them to open space. This not only moves frontline residents out of danger, but also protects neighbors.
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A Day On The Bayview’s Shifting Shore
I set out for Heron’s Head Park on an early March morning. To my surprise, I had never heard of, nor visited, this site on the southeastern bayshore in my 20-plus years growing up and living as a visual artist in San Francisco.
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CHATTER
The ruling comes almost a year after the Bay Area Air Quality Management District passed the most stringent regulations in the nation to limit particulate matter, which contributes to asthma and other health effects on residents living near refineries.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/cleaner-air-fewer-health-hazards-from-bay-area-refineries/
In a statement, @AirDistrict's Sharon Landers told KneeDeep, "Today’s West Virginia vs. EPA Supreme Court decision, which limits the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon emissions, comes at a time when climate change impacts are increasingly felt and obvious to all." (thread 👇)
In "Seeking Friends for the End of the World," first-time KneeDeep contributor Maylin Tu details her quest to make friends with her neighbors — and become more resilient to climate catastrophes along the way.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/seeking-friends-for-the-end-of-the-world/
#friendship #ClimateResilience #climate
#Partnerships don't only benefit regional agencies like ours! @KneeDeepTimes explores the benefits of reaching out to your local community to harness friendships for both the #climatecrisis and #fun. #partnershipinaction
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/seeking-friends-for-the-end-of-the-world/
Our June stories are out! Learn about making friends, fixing fire maps, cleaning rivers, and more. We also put out a call for suggestions of people doing great climate resilience work we should profile in future stories: https://conta.cc/3nmtVn1
#climate #resilience #california
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