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Resilience Hub
Special Series: Extremes in 3D
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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Among the more well-known causes of wildfire β lightning, volcanic activity, neglected cigarettes, gender reveal parties gone awry β there remains a less notorious culprit: electrocuted birds.
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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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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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Warren Logan is confident that if we fight for safer streets, we can have them. βIn Oakland you are more likely to be hit by a car than cancer or a stray bullet,β he says.
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