Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Climate Change

We've been here before: The Youth Climate Strike in San Francisco in March 2019. Image: Intothewoods7 via Wikimedia

The Climate Emergency Won’t Wait for the Press to Play Catch-Up

By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope | Jul 1, 2020 | No Comments

We still don’t sense the urgency that the climate emergency demands, especially as the 2020 election approaches. Our window to prevent catastrophe is closing fast.

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New Trump Executive Order Will Pollute Black Communities

By Kea Wilson | Jun 9, 2020 | No Comments

By dismantling key environmental protections, Trump is empowering cities to build highways through black neighborhoods — a heinous form of environmental racism that has killed countless Americans.

3 Revolutions in Davis: Conference Soon

By Melanie Curry | Mar 3, 2020 | No Comments

Here's an opportunity to meet and hear from a wide range of thinkers and decision makers at the forefront of transportation policy today.

Not all transit oriented development needs to be as dense as the new housing at MacArthur BART station in Oakland, but it does need to include affordable units. These 90 units are a portion of the total project, built on a former parking lot at the station.

TransForm: California Needs More Housing, It Needs to Be Near Transit, and It Must Be Affordable

By Melanie Curry | Feb 19, 2020 | No Comments

Upzoning is necessary, but doing it without adequate anti-displacement and affordability requirements puts upward pressure on areas near transit, creating a whole cascade of unwanted effects.

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Garcetti Earns Headlines for Climate Directive, But He’s Running Out of Time to Lead

By Damien Newton | Feb 12, 2020 | No Comments

“The science could not be clearer and the stakes could not be higher.... There is literally no time to waste."

Air Quality Board Member Rides a Bike to Meeting. Why Is this Newsworthy?

By Melanie Curry | Dec 17, 2019 | No Comments

Or, put another way: why don't more public agency directors and staff, especially those working on climate and air quality issues, use - or encourage - active transportation?

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