Category: Fight or Flight
When you know it’s coming for you — fire, flood, heat or stormy weather. Planning, designing and building for safety, efficiency and equity.
Hundreds Protest Proposed Cuts to San Francisco Environment Department
Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office has introduced sweeping budget cuts for the next fiscal year, including reduced support for climate action.
The Nuances of Tapping North Bay Sediment Supplies
How Adobe Creek and the Petaluma River can help three parcels, including a popular park, evolve into one resilient shore.
Mountain View’s Shoreline Gets Serious SLR Attention
After four breaches, imports of clean fill, and the addition of rocks, bird islands and bridges the South Bay’s Shoreline Park has more climate resilient environs.
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Plants Facilitate Transition to Higher Water
Save The Bay is restoring habitat transition zones with native plants to accommodate rising sea levels and support wildlife.
Hundreds Protest Proposed Cuts to San Francisco Environment Department
Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office has introduced sweeping budget cuts for the next fiscal year, including reduced support for climate action.
The Nuances of Tapping North Bay Sediment Supplies
How Adobe Creek and the Petaluma River can help three parcels, including a popular park, evolve into one resilient shore.
Mountain View’s Shoreline Gets Serious SLR Attention
After four breaches, imports of clean fill, and the addition of rocks, bird islands and bridges the South Bay’s Shoreline Park has more climate resilient environs.
Adaptation Atlas
Thirty places to focus on nature-based adaptation around the Bay’s 400-mile shoreline.
Building Sustainably with Mass Timber
This building method can help clear forests of smaller trees that burn easily while also reducing the carbon footprint of new homes and offices.
Hardscapes That Filter Rain
Heavy rain can overwhelm storm drains and pollute waterways, but materials like permeable pavements help filter runoff and prevent flooding.
The Gray-Green Alchemy of Baycrete
Baycrete is a nature-based hybrid of concrete, shell, and sand designed to attract oysters and create shallow water reefs in SF Bay.
Tools Tweak Beaver Dams
Humans find ways to co-exist with beavers, tweaking dams to prevent flooding and create more climate resilience.
A Rare Plant Tough Enough to Save the Future Bayshore
Sea-blite can thrive in adverse conditions, buffer shores from waves, hold sand and soil in place, and clamber up eroding cliffs.
Green Schools Network
Ideas for how to integrate climate literacy across core curricula.
Reforming Rules to Speed Adaptation
Bay Conservation and Development Commission to vote early this year on amendments designed to expedite approval of climate projects.