Category: Reflecting on Resilience
What makes you resilient?
When it comes to climate extremes – floods, fire, heat, smoke — what are your go-tos and how-tos? What is your signature resilience story – a time when you experienced a disaster or challenge and how did you recover? In this section, KneeDeep shares personal and community resilience stories, suggestions and practices from the Bay Area and California.
Share your reflections!
Climate Adaptation: The Basics
Resilient sweet potatoes and stilts on houses remind us how adaptable human beings can be. This graphic guide samples our earliest and most recent history of adaptation.
Royally Flooded: Dispatches from the Highest Tides
Cars entering the freeway ramp in Mill Valley whizzed through hundreds of feet of ankle-deep seawater. Next to the San Francisco International Airport runway, baywater burbled up into the road from a storm drain.
Red Meat Has Big Hoofprints
Red meat has a big carbon footprint. Yet American dietary guidelines recommend lots of it! How much do you eat? Even dialing it back a little can boost your climate resilience.
All Stories
Climate Adaptation: The Basics
Resilient sweet potatoes and stilts on houses remind us how adaptable human beings can be. This graphic guide samples our earliest and most recent history of adaptation.
Realmente Inundado: Observaciones de Las Mareas Más Altas
Los automóviles que ingresaban a la rampa de la autopista en Mill Valley zumbaban a través de cientos de metros de agua salada hasta los tobillos. Junto a la pista del Aeropuerto Internacional de San Francisco, el agua de la bahía brotaba hasta la carretera desde un desagüe pluvial.
Royally Flooded: Dispatches from the Highest Tides
Cars entering the freeway ramp in Mill Valley whizzed through hundreds of feet of ankle-deep seawater. Next to the San Francisco International Airport runway, baywater burbled up into the road from a storm drain.
Red Meat Has Big Hoofprints
Red meat has a big carbon footprint. Yet American dietary guidelines recommend lots of it! How much do you eat? Even dialing it back a little can boost your climate resilience.
Overheards
“We have to practice radical imagination. We can no longer put band aids on things, we have to throw out the band aid package.”
– Jaqui Patterson
Dream V Reality
What you thought would happen…
What actually happened? A reflection on resilience.
Vrinda Manglik Sketches Penguins with Hot Feet
Hot Feet forAntarctic Penguins? Created by Vrinda Manglik for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean...