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As the warming world shrinks California's water supply, every drop spoiled, spent, or saved counts. This month's stories dive into #AI's water crisis, a new #desalination plant for the #Delta, #PFAS contamination in the #TriValley area, and more. buff.ly/WIFcyqj
#CaliforniaWater #DataCenters
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#CaliforniaWater #DataCenters
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November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
As the warming world shrinks California's water supply, every drop spoiled, spent, or saved counts. This month's stories dive into #AI's water crisis, a new #desalination plant for the #Delta, #PFAS contamination in the #TriValley area, and more. buff.ly/WIFcyqj
#CaliforniaWater #DataCenters
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#CaliforniaWater #DataCenters
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“I think people like to make it black and white, separate what is human space and what is natural space,” says Griffith. “I like to find items that confuse and challenge that separation.” #BayAreaArtist
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November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“I think people like to make it black and white, separate what is human space and what is natural space,” says Griffith. “I like to find items that confuse and challenge that separation.” #BayAreaArtist
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#Oakland artist Courtney Griffith walks local #beaches collecting discarded plastics, burnt wood, and tangled ropes—then turns them into installations that spark reflection on our impact on local ecosystems. #EcoArt #RecycledArt
📷: Courtney Griffith
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📷: Courtney Griffith
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November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
#Oakland artist Courtney Griffith walks local #beaches collecting discarded plastics, burnt wood, and tangled ropes—then turns them into installations that spark reflection on our impact on local ecosystems. #EcoArt #RecycledArt
📷: Courtney Griffith
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📷: Courtney Griffith
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At a recent community meeting, #TuolumneCounty District 4 Supervisor Steve Griefer described the situation as “a fork in the road” for residents, as county crews hurry to address the risk of erosion before winter rains arrive.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
At a recent community meeting, #TuolumneCounty District 4 Supervisor Steve Griefer described the situation as “a fork in the road” for residents, as county crews hurry to address the risk of erosion before winter rains arrive.
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This September, lightning sparked a #wildfire in #ChineseCamp. Photographer Tristan Moore documented the aftermath in this historic #GoldRush town, where residents lost nearly everything but are finding ways forward. #PhotoEssay
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November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This September, lightning sparked a #wildfire in #ChineseCamp. Photographer Tristan Moore documented the aftermath in this historic #GoldRush town, where residents lost nearly everything but are finding ways forward. #PhotoEssay
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Jimena Santos, one of the youth advisors, wants to persuade lawmakers and local officials to “create a safer environment for kids growing up in these neighborhoods.” #ClimateJustice #NextGen #ClimateYouth
🗺️: California Healthy Places Index, Public Health Alliance of Southern California.
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🗺️: California Healthy Places Index, Public Health Alliance of Southern California.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Jimena Santos, one of the youth advisors, wants to persuade lawmakers and local officials to “create a safer environment for kids growing up in these neighborhoods.” #ClimateJustice #NextGen #ClimateYouth
🗺️: California Healthy Places Index, Public Health Alliance of Southern California.
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🗺️: California Healthy Places Index, Public Health Alliance of Southern California.
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In southwest #SantaRosa, Latinx youth are measuring #extremeheat disparities in their own neighborhoods. Organized by Greenbelt Alliance and Latino Service Providers, this new youth advisory team is documenting how the area’s sparse tree canopy creates #urbanheatislands.
📷: Amy Moore
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📷: Amy Moore
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November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
In southwest #SantaRosa, Latinx youth are measuring #extremeheat disparities in their own neighborhoods. Organized by Greenbelt Alliance and Latino Service Providers, this new youth advisory team is documenting how the area’s sparse tree canopy creates #urbanheatislands.
📷: Amy Moore
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📷: Amy Moore
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Some LA residents have built makeshift shelters, only to have the city deem them illegal. “Why is this thing so basic and elemental actually really hard to find in LA and actively punished?” asks Bloch. #Shade #ClimateJustice
📷: Maylin Tu
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📷: Maylin Tu
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November 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Some LA residents have built makeshift shelters, only to have the city deem them illegal. “Why is this thing so basic and elemental actually really hard to find in LA and actively punished?” asks Bloch. #Shade #ClimateJustice
📷: Maylin Tu
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📷: Maylin Tu
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In #LosAngeles, shade is a rare luxury. Three-quarters of bus stops have no shelter, leaving vulnerable residents exposed to #extremeheat. Journalist Sam Bloch’s new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource digs deeper into shade inequity. @samkbloch.bsky.social
📷: Sam Bloch
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📷: Sam Bloch
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November 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
In #LosAngeles, shade is a rare luxury. Three-quarters of bus stops have no shelter, leaving vulnerable residents exposed to #extremeheat. Journalist Sam Bloch’s new book Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource digs deeper into shade inequity. @samkbloch.bsky.social
📷: Sam Bloch
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📷: Sam Bloch
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This Saturday, join Everyday Climate Champions & Trellis for an afternoon of hope, connection, and climate action in #SanFrancisco. Enjoy live music & happy hour. Free childcare & activities for kids. Tickets: $5-$25 sliding scale.
November 8, 1 - 4 pm, 981 Mission St.
Register: buff.ly/aE7CAZL
November 8, 1 - 4 pm, 981 Mission St.
Register: buff.ly/aE7CAZL
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This Saturday, join Everyday Climate Champions & Trellis for an afternoon of hope, connection, and climate action in #SanFrancisco. Enjoy live music & happy hour. Free childcare & activities for kids. Tickets: $5-$25 sliding scale.
November 8, 1 - 4 pm, 981 Mission St.
Register: buff.ly/aE7CAZL
November 8, 1 - 4 pm, 981 Mission St.
Register: buff.ly/aE7CAZL
Climate resilience is happening in our own neighborhoods every day—but these stories rarely get told. KneeDeep Times is building a #communityreporting network to amplify these stories. Read the first dispatches from our new Community Reporting Fellows: buff.ly/GFnelDo
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October 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Climate resilience is happening in our own neighborhoods every day—but these stories rarely get told. KneeDeep Times is building a #communityreporting network to amplify these stories. Read the first dispatches from our new Community Reporting Fellows: buff.ly/GFnelDo
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“Innovation is worth it on the shoreline. It takes partnership, it takes creativity, it takes dedication — but the eventual benefits are so much more lasting,” says Heidi Nutters, senior program manager with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership. @sfestuary.bsky.social
📷: Zoon Engineering
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📷: Zoon Engineering
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October 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“Innovation is worth it on the shoreline. It takes partnership, it takes creativity, it takes dedication — but the eventual benefits are so much more lasting,” says Heidi Nutters, senior program manager with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership. @sfestuary.bsky.social
📷: Zoon Engineering
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📷: Zoon Engineering
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The second installment of KneeDeep’s quarterly column “The Practice” spotlights innovative #environmentaldesign projects in progress from #PaloAlto to Ashland, including a #levee that filters wastewater and a commercial lot transformed into a #communitypark. #IndiaBasin
📷: Aaron Ackerman
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📷: Aaron Ackerman
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October 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The second installment of KneeDeep’s quarterly column “The Practice” spotlights innovative #environmentaldesign projects in progress from #PaloAlto to Ashland, including a #levee that filters wastewater and a commercial lot transformed into a #communitypark. #IndiaBasin
📷: Aaron Ackerman
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📷: Aaron Ackerman
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“In the Bay Area, for example, we’re seeing a lot of new housing developments getting proposed in low-lying areas that are vulnerable to flood risk, because that’s where the space is,” says UC Davis’ Mark Lubell. @envpolicycenter.bsky.social
📷: Greenbelt Alliance
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📷: Greenbelt Alliance
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October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“In the Bay Area, for example, we’re seeing a lot of new housing developments getting proposed in low-lying areas that are vulnerable to flood risk, because that’s where the space is,” says UC Davis’ Mark Lubell. @envpolicycenter.bsky.social
📷: Greenbelt Alliance
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📷: Greenbelt Alliance
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New California legislation exempts many housing projects from #CEQA review to fast-track development. Environmental advocates warn the rushed process could enable unsafe housing in #flood and #fire zones and allow industrial facilities to be built near neighborhoods.
Map: MTC/ABAG
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Map: MTC/ABAG
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October 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"There's a scenario where it's really a question of whether it would make any sense to operate anymore, and this would be completely devastating to the region's climate goals," warns Rebecca Long, director of legislation and public affairs for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"There's a scenario where it's really a question of whether it would make any sense to operate anymore, and this would be completely devastating to the region's climate goals," warns Rebecca Long, director of legislation and public affairs for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
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Thousands more cars on the road. Entire rail lines shut down. No free #transit for youth, low-income families, and seniors. That's the reality heading to the #BayArea in 2027 unless voters pass a ballot measure in November 2026 to fund #publictransit. #SB63 @bart.gov
📷: Joey Kotfica, MTC
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📷: Joey Kotfica, MTC
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October 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thousands more cars on the road. Entire rail lines shut down. No free #transit for youth, low-income families, and seniors. That's the reality heading to the #BayArea in 2027 unless voters pass a ballot measure in November 2026 to fund #publictransit. #SB63 @bart.gov
📷: Joey Kotfica, MTC
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📷: Joey Kotfica, MTC
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“We’re not just driven by how much we can harvest. The goal is to eliminate wastage,” says Vidula Aiyer, leader of the backyard #fruitharvesting program in #Cupertino. “We want people to become a little bit more aware of what is happening in their yards.”
📷: Ariel Okamoto
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📷: Ariel Okamoto
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October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
“We’re not just driven by how much we can harvest. The goal is to eliminate wastage,” says Vidula Aiyer, leader of the backyard #fruitharvesting program in #Cupertino. “We want people to become a little bit more aware of what is happening in their yards.”
📷: Ariel Okamoto
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📷: Ariel Okamoto
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In #SantaClara backyards, fruit is rotting—releasing #methane and adding to the county's 677,167 tons of annual organic waste. Now, #Cupertino's backyard harvesting program is rescuing that bounty and donating it to families experiencing #foodinsecurity. #FoodWaste
📷: Stephanie Lam
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📷: Stephanie Lam
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October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In #SantaClara backyards, fruit is rotting—releasing #methane and adding to the county's 677,167 tons of annual organic waste. Now, #Cupertino's backyard harvesting program is rescuing that bounty and donating it to families experiencing #foodinsecurity. #FoodWaste
📷: Stephanie Lam
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📷: Stephanie Lam
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“It wasn’t just the water, but the damage and fear they brought. This project is more than infrastructure; it’s an important step toward peace of mind, safety, and confidence for our community,” says Valley Water board director Richard Santos, an Alviso native.
📷: KSwinicki/Getty Images
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📷: KSwinicki/Getty Images
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October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“It wasn’t just the water, but the damage and fear they brought. This project is more than infrastructure; it’s an important step toward peace of mind, safety, and confidence for our community,” says Valley Water board director Richard Santos, an Alviso native.
📷: KSwinicki/Getty Images
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📷: KSwinicki/Getty Images
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On October 25, as part of the @litquake.org festival’s #LitCrawl event, four KneeDeep writers will present literary pieces on the theme of journeys back to our own terrain at Grand Coffee Too in #SanFrancisco. Register for free: buff.ly/lRWElN1
#LiteraryFestival #MissionDistrict #NatureWriting
#LiteraryFestival #MissionDistrict #NatureWriting
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
On October 25, as part of the @litquake.org festival’s #LitCrawl event, four KneeDeep writers will present literary pieces on the theme of journeys back to our own terrain at Grand Coffee Too in #SanFrancisco. Register for free: buff.ly/lRWElN1
#LiteraryFestival #MissionDistrict #NatureWriting
#LiteraryFestival #MissionDistrict #NatureWriting
Last month, hundreds of climate activists, planners, and scientists descended on the #Exploratorium in #SanFrancisco for the Bay Adapt Summit. New to the Bay Area, KneeDeep Assistant Editor Duncan Agnew asked the experts for a crash course on #sealevelrise.
📷: Ida Høyrup/Exploratorium
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📷: Ida Høyrup/Exploratorium
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October 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Last month, hundreds of climate activists, planners, and scientists descended on the #Exploratorium in #SanFrancisco for the Bay Adapt Summit. New to the Bay Area, KneeDeep Assistant Editor Duncan Agnew asked the experts for a crash course on #sealevelrise.
📷: Ida Høyrup/Exploratorium
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📷: Ida Høyrup/Exploratorium
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This month's stories explore the Bay Area's struggle to balance affordability, efficiency, and #climateresilience. New #housing and #transit policies spark debate, while #grassroots activists find inspiration in their own backyards. buff.ly/6ky3MpQ
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October 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This month's stories explore the Bay Area's struggle to balance affordability, efficiency, and #climateresilience. New #housing and #transit policies spark debate, while #grassroots activists find inspiration in their own backyards. buff.ly/6ky3MpQ
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“We know that letting nature do the work for us is always going to be the cheapest option,” says Scott Dusterhoff, senior #scientist at @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social. “Those are the types of processes that we are trying to reestablish in many areas around the region right now.”
📷: SFEI
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📷: SFEI
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October 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“We know that letting nature do the work for us is always going to be the cheapest option,” says Scott Dusterhoff, senior #scientist at @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social. “Those are the types of processes that we are trying to reestablish in many areas around the region right now.”
📷: SFEI
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📷: SFEI
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