KneeDeep Times is a digital magazine featuring stories from the frontlines of climate resilience. We aim to give our readers the inside scoop on local climate adaptation efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We examine what’s working, what’s not, and how communities of all sizes are responding as the impacts of climate change intensify. We report on the meaning and impacts of policies, projects and investments and on the lived experiences of real people and real places. In all our work, we center both professional journalism and training for emerging reporters learning to tell climate change stories.
KneeDeep Times publishes once, occasionally twice, a month.
Funding
KneeDeep Times launched in September 2021 with funding from the Bay Area Regional Collaborative. In 2022, the magazine received its first grant for a special investigative series from the CO2 Foundation via the magazine’s non-profit fiscal agent Urban Ecology Inc. In 2023-2024, additional grants came from the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority, the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, and the California Environmental Equity Initiative program of Resources Legacy Fund. In 2025, the magazine also received a grant from the SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
Editorial Policy
KneeDeep Times is an independent magazine and does not represent the views and opinions of its funders, or its advisory committees.
Regional Planning Advisors
- Josh Bradt, Program Coordinator, Bay Area Regional Collaborative
- Caitlin Sweeney, Director, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
- Michael McCormick, Leadership Team, Bay Area Climate Adaptation Network
- Dana Brechwald, Adapting to Rising Tides Program Manager, SF Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Science Advisors
To inform KneeDeep‘s ongoing coverage of science topics related to climate extremes and adaptation solutions the magazine works with five science advisors representing a range of academic, government and research institutions. MORE
- Alexander Gurshunov, Scripps
- Emily Corwin, SF Estuary Institute
- Richelle Tanner, Chapman University
- Patrick Barnard, UC Santa Cruz
- Terry Young, Retired Water Quality Board
Organizational Resilience
This committee assists KneeDeep with activites related to building organizational capacity and sustainability. It also advises on grant management, supports relationships with funders, and serves as a liaison between KneeDeep and it’s non-profit fiscal agent Urban Ecology.
- Richard Alden Feldon, Philanthropic Advisor
- Suzanne Easton, Former Grants Program Manager
- Josh Bradt, Program Coordinator, Bay Area Regional Collaborative