A digital magazine covering San Francisco Bay Area resilience to climate change. Tag, follow, and read #KneeDeepTimes for free. Est. 2021, HQ SF Bay Area
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California’s Assembly Bill 285, passed last year, requires climate change to be integrated into K-12 education. How are Bay Area schools tackling climate literacy? @CalEnviroLit @TenStrands @AndraYeghoian 📷: Prospect Sierra School buff.ly/3YOccax
Biomedical engineer Cynthia Prieto-Diaz is bringing DIY air quality monitors, community cleanups, and a punk spirit to environmental activism in San Leandro. @AirDistrict @CitySanLeandro @ESAL_us 📷: Cynthia Prieto-Diaz 🧵 4/5 buff.ly/3CrWOcn
Kurt Johnson, community energy resilience director at @climatecampaign, explains how electric vehicles can double as solar batteries and help make California’s power grid more resilient. 📷: Extreme Media 🧵5/5 buff.ly/4fm2FhW
Despite San Francisco's urban setting, a new Hazards and Climate Resilience plan warns that the city's trees could pose an unexpected wildfire threat. 📷: Desiree Barrera 🧵 2/5 buff.ly/4fIt3SR
Could your daily commute be harmful to your nervous system? New research by @DayoonKwon suggests that there may be a link between traffic pollution and Parkinson's disease. 📷: Life of Pix/Pexels 🧵 3/5 buff.ly/3AuZ8yR
In this next batch of stories, unexpected fire and pollution hazards are exposed, a punk rock scientist works for environmental justice, and a clean energy expert explains how electric vehicles can double as solar batteries. 📷: Cynthia P., SF City & County, Ri Butov 🧵 1/5
This month, KneeDeep explores how Marin is grappling with the housing & climate crises, from fighting for affordable housing & flood adaptation in Marin City to discussing coastal retreat in Bolinas. 📷: Amy Osborne, Ted Barone, Steve Matson 🧵 1/4
After decades of flooding, Marin City will participate in a $13.5 million flood-reduction project led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 📷: Brandon Beach, USACE 🧵 3/4 buff.ly/3O7rnqh
As sea levels rise, a Bolinas architect is sparking a new conversation on coastal retreat. Steve Matson’s vision could relocate this Marin County village to higher ground. 📷: I-Stock 🧵 4/4 buff.ly/3O8YuKu
This past September, the Rising Tides Initiative transformed Alameda's former naval base with a climate art performance by @bandalooping and the West End Arts District. @BloombergDotOrg 📷: Brooke Anderson @movementphotog 🧵1/3
“It’s a vision of what Alameda Point may become. I think the arts can help give that sense of potential, rather than doom,” explains Tara Pilbrow, executive director of Alameda’s West End Arts District. @DestaniWolf 📷: Brooke Anderson @movementphotog 🧵2/3
Can art challenge people to think about climate change in a new way? 📷: Brooke Anderson @movementphotog 🧵3/3
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KneeDeep Times managing editor Ariel Rubissow Okamoto shares six bold ideas for “greening” San Francisco. Art by Afsoon Razavi. 🧵 1/3
“In the Portola Garden District, restore those vast historic greenhouses with real glass, not plastic, and grow more produce for San Francisco. Build affordable housing right next to it for people who will work in the greenhouses,” suggests Okamoto. 📷: Meka Boyle 🧵 2/3
Can San Francisco become the flagship deep green city of the wild west? 📷: Nick Falbo/Flickr 🧵 3/3
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In 2023, with support from @co2foundation and @pulitzercenter, KneeDeep Times published Extremes-in-3D, a five-part investigation into climate extremes in California. As climate impacts worsen across the state, these stories from the frontlines are more urgent than ever. 🧵 1/7
California's farming heartland is suffering from hotter nights, wetter storms, drought and inequity. In part five of this series, scientists study crop impacts while communities grapple with infrastructure failures and changing landscapes. 🧵 6/7
