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How Can I Get Clean, Green, Climate-Forward Job Training in the Bay Area?

Looking for a hands-on job working outdoors that actually pays? Here’s a list of training programs.

Santa Rosa Residents Rethink Trees

The heat-burdened Roseland neighborhood is learning how to monitor temperatures and developing an action plan focused on tree shade.

How to Make Conservation a Career 

California nonprofits are developing paid apprenticeships to prepare workers for the growing ecological restoration economy.

Raft of Resilience Initiatives Keeps Tahoe Blue

Beach robots, boat inspections, forest thinning, and wetland restoration are among the projects helping the lake confront environmental threats.

Weathering the Present While Training for the Future

A stewardship immersion experience from the School for Inclement Weather and Weaving Earth combines ecological knowledge and spiritual connection.

Feds Meddling With Protections For California Coast

NOAA is reviewing California’s Coastal Management Program in a renewed push for offshore oil and gas drilling.

New Study Shows Rain Gardens Filter Chemicals Out of Stormwater

Scientists found rain gardens dramatically reduce toxic chemicals in stormwater while providing biodiversity and cooling.

The Tricky Art of Growing Oysters in the Lab So They Can Survive in the Field

The Nature Conservancy, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, and others are growing oysters in the lab and planting them in the wild in estuaries around San Francisco Bay.

Printing Without Plastic: The Vintage Machine Winning Over Eco-Conscious Artists

This comic guide to risograph printing explains how the 1980s Japanese machine cuts energy use and avoids plastic toner.

East Bay Kids Fight Extreme Heat in their Schoolyards

Many California schools are ill-equipped to tackle heat, with many campuses lacking sufficient tree coverage. These students are fighting to change that.

How a North Bay Regional Park Helped Me Reconnect With Nature — and Myself

A young Fairfield resident reflects on how hiking during the pandemic became a refuge from digital overload and the growing realities of climate change.

Wild Pigs Rough Up Bay Area Greens

They tear up landscapes in search of food, prey on native wildlife, and damage streams, and warming could bring them closer to urban areas.

Residents Chose Different Ways to Respond to Contra Costa Flood Challenges

Graduates of a shoreline leadership program in Contra Costa County recently pitched their ideas for sea level rise education and adaptation.

Strong Leader, Light Touch: Caitlin Sweeney 

Ahead of her retirement earlier this month, the Estuary Partnership director sat down with KneeDeep to discuss her achievements and the future of the Bay.

Unmasking Regionalism

Regional leaders say the Bay Area has built ambitious climate resilience plans. Now comes the harder task: funding and implementing them.

Pacheco Pass Is Getting a Second Wind

In Pacheco Pass, a decades-old wind farm is getting an upgrade that will double CleanPowerSF’s wind energy.

Climate Change, A Scorpion’s POV

From the Sierra Nevada to the Mojave Desert, the state’s native scorpions are losing habitat as heat, wildfires, and development reshape ecosystems.

12 Creek Types: Which One Is In Your Backyard? 

Geomorphologist Gregory Pasternack and his team documented 12 types of Bay Area creeks to help residents protect themselves from flood threats.

Could Avocados Be A Transformational Fruit for the Bay Region?

Local growers and activists are planting avocado trees to build climate resilience, local food systems, and alternatives to imported fruit.

Radar Gap Filled on Marin Mountaintop

A new weather radar installation will help the region’s northern counties read incoming storm clouds, hours before they drop their rain.