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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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Mapping Those Most At Risk
With NOAA’s recent update to their Billion Dollar Disaster Map, urban planners and citizens can see for themselves how disaster risk and vulnerability vary at the much finer “census tract” scale.
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Muggy Days, Sleepless Nights
Climate modeling has shown that the extreme heat events in the state’s future will be accompanied by more humidity, making it hard for coastal residents, unaccustomed to heat, to chill.
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Napa Bets on Bikes for Students
What’s flat, covered in pavement, and unsafe for cyclists? Most Bay Area cities. But a Napa coalition recently published “Safe Routes to School” reports for 31 schools in the county. The routes also offer a healthier alternative to back seat commutes to class.
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Roaming Sacramento During the Hottest Week Ever
My sister and I joke that any temperature above 75 is too hot to leave the house. But I decided to venture outside during the heat wave after Labor Day to see how the people of Sacramento were faring.
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Oakland Tailors Resilience Hubs to Neighborhood Needs
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.”
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Suisun City Pumps Up Resiliency
Suisun City has been exploring ways to increase its resiliency to sea level rise and storm surges, including updating infrastructure, building an ecotone levee, and holding a resiliency workshop.
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Valley Cities Beat Back the Heat
In the capital region and Silicon Valley, two cities have been experimenting with cooler roofs, walls and leafy canopies. Turns out cooling measures in one spot help those downwind.
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Why Napa Planners Nixed a New Gas Station
In April, a developer proposed a new gas station near a busy intersection in the City of Napa. But thanks to footwork of high schoolers, citizens and elected leaders Napa County and a growing number of North Bay cities have set zero-emissions goals for 2030, and declared a climate emergency. As a result, the new gas station was a no-go.
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You're more likely to be hit by a car in #Oakland than a bullet or cancer. For Warren Logan, it's one among many reasons to demand better streets for people and cyclists in the city. Check out our quick read profile of Logan 👇
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/warren-logan-fight-for-safer-streets
#urbanplanning #safestreets
Cannabis can be an energy and carbon intensive crop when grown indoors. A marijuana farmer in the Pajaro Valley made the leap to regenerative farming — and is now encouraging other growers to swap out their greenhouses for the outdoors.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/growing-weed-indoors-or-out/
#CannabisNews
It's not just lightening strikes and gender reveal parties gone wrong that spark #wildfires. Sometimes, it's dead birds.
More in quick read article Feathered Flames.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/feathered-flames/
@SuisunCity became the first West Coast city to participate in a series of hundreds of nationwide community resilience workshops. It's one of many steps the low-lying Solano County town is taking to confront climate risks, along with #GreenInfrastructure.
https://www.kneedeeptimes.org/suisun-city-pumps-up-resiliency
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