Ryan Sabalow always has a new angle to analyze things. 👍
SB 79 (Wiener) transit-oriented housing
SB 254 (Becker) energy

"Venugopal started researching microplastics in orthodontics after seeing a paper that found patients with micro- and nanoplastics embedded in their artery plaques were more likely to have a heart attack or stroke."
Need more articles like this & shared repeatedly
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"empathy is the greatest form of resistance, because it’s much harder to abandon someone if you can imagine yourself in their pain. This is especially true in the final stages of authoritarian consolidation of power, when the people capitulate in the hope that it will keep them safe."
Dem power too.

"Last week, the report was accepted by Orange County Supervisors without much discussion."

“food bank leaders said the need for food will only rise in the new year without legislative efforts to reverse the cuts to the federal food assistance program.”
There’s only so much money, yet for so many needs. Improving government efficiency would really help stretch our tax dollars.

"The newspaper industry has lost more than three-quarters of its jobs nationally, an evisceration mimicked in California. That’s not a good trend, given that democracy functions best when it’s fueled by accurate, actionable information."

Informative interview with the athletes! Tom Brady's diet is 80% plant-based.
Despite a list of reasons why pro soccer players dislike plastic grass, SoFi Stadium temporarily installed a natural grass field for FIFA, plastic grass is trending.
And, single-use plastic bottle water at sports events...

“Among recipients of federal food assistance through this state’s CalFresh program, 39% don’t have food security and 45% don’t have nutrition security.”

“In fact there’s been a quite systematic campaign that’s been sophisticated and extremely well funded.”
Grassroots climate campaigns may never be "extremely well funded," but what strategies can help make them more "sophisticated"?

"After three days of muscle-aching work — not even full days — I learned the skill that goes into harvesting fruit we take for granted in grocery stores, the sacrifices families make and the lengths people go to so they can work in an industry in which some Americans don’t last beyond a week."

"Nearly one-third of Orange County’s 3.1 million residents rely on CalFresh food stamps."
Appreciate Hosam Elattar's continued coverage on food insecurity and social injustice 🙏

So disappointed you still haven't got green bins
@raineytime.bsky.social wrote in 2022:
"Burbank, South Pasadena and Glendale are among the cities in Los Angeles County that have curbside food scrap pickup already in place. So do Newport Beach, San Clemente and. . ."
www.latimes.com/environment/...

Good job, @paulthornton.bsky.social. A lot to think about, unfortunately. Installing EV chargers in office parking lots seems to work well. Staff are more willing to come in when they can charge conveniently. HR tells it as a recruiting perk. And more staff switch to EVs in such a culture.

“'Some of our distributions are seeing twice as many people as they normally do and signing up three times as many new families as they had this time last year,' Second Harvest Food Bank of OC CEO Claudia Bonilla Keller warned Orange County Supervisors."
Tks for Hosam Elattar's continued coverage!

"The largest spenders outside of the major campaigns this time are billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer, who reported more than $12.8 million in expenditures and the California Republican Party, which poured more than $10.2 million into ads and messaging opposing the measure."
@jeremiak.com digs data 👍

"It calls for deep, systemic change in how societies value nature, design economies, consume resources and define progress [and power].” I had to add a couple of words...

Indeed, “the luck of the gene.” Thanks so much for writing & sharing it! Need more housing-equity stories to spark a moral awakening among those with power
“An issue dividing some [Sierra Club] California members has been housing…long seen by many as anti-development”
www.latimes.com/environment/...

I’m curious about this social justice aspect of the housing issue around here.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Second day in business, you're already #33 Bestsellers in Climate & Environment. Guess the algorithm likes your logo too!
substack.com/leaderboard/...