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With communities from East Palo Alto to Stockton facing significant #flooding by 2050, the @sfestuary.bsky.social Estuary Youth Council is bringing together young people to learn about #sealevelrise and take action for their future. #Delta #Estuary
📷: Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos
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📷: Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos
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November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
With communities from East Palo Alto to Stockton facing significant #flooding by 2050, the @sfestuary.bsky.social Estuary Youth Council is bringing together young people to learn about #sealevelrise and take action for their future. #Delta #Estuary
📷: Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos
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📷: Juan Pablo Pérez Burgos
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For six weeks each autumn, biologist Julie Woodruff leads a team of #citizenscientists catching, banding, and releasing northern saw-whet #owls in the #BayArea. The data they collect helps scientists understand how development and climate change are affecting these tiny raptors.
📷: Amy Moore
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📷: Amy Moore
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November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
For six weeks each autumn, biologist Julie Woodruff leads a team of #citizenscientists catching, banding, and releasing northern saw-whet #owls in the #BayArea. The data they collect helps scientists understand how development and climate change are affecting these tiny raptors.
📷: Amy Moore
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📷: Amy Moore
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Data centers powering #AI tools use 10 to 20 times more #energy than traditional servers—and could account for up to 12% of U.S. electricity by 2028. The environmental impact of the AI boom could depend on whether communities act now to regulate the industry.
📷: Afsoon Razavi
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📷: Afsoon Razavi
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November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The San Francisco Estuary's latest health checkup shows mixed results. The 2025 State of Our Estuary assessment, released this fall, reveals that #wetlandrestoration efforts are paying off and some #tidalmarsh birds are returning. @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social
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@sfestuary.bsky.social
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November 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The San Francisco Estuary's latest health checkup shows mixed results. The 2025 State of Our Estuary assessment, released this fall, reveals that #wetlandrestoration efforts are paying off and some #tidalmarsh birds are returning. @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social
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Reposted by KneeDeep Times Magazine
You can explore the assessment at the Our Estuary website, developed by @sfestuary.bsky.social and us!
www.ourestuary.org
www.ourestuary.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
You can explore the assessment at the Our Estuary website, developed by @sfestuary.bsky.social and us!
www.ourestuary.org
www.ourestuary.org
Since 2018, #Pleasanton has battled #PFAS contamination in its #groundwater, taking wells offline and switching entirely to treated water from Zone 7 Water Agency. Comic by Rain Hepting. #ForeverChemicals #BayArea #EastBay
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November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Since 2018, #Pleasanton has battled #PFAS contamination in its #groundwater, taking wells offline and switching entirely to treated water from Zone 7 Water Agency. Comic by Rain Hepting. #ForeverChemicals #BayArea #EastBay
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#Antioch’s new #desalination plant treats brackish water from the #Delta to produce six million gallons of drinking #water daily. As climate change worsens #drought, #California is planning a dozen more brackish plants by 2040 to diversify the state's water supply.
📷: Magali Gauthier
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📷: Magali Gauthier
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November 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#Antioch’s new #desalination plant treats brackish water from the #Delta to produce six million gallons of drinking #water daily. As climate change worsens #drought, #California is planning a dozen more brackish plants by 2040 to diversify the state's water supply.
📷: Magali Gauthier
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📷: Magali Gauthier
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This fall, the city of Antioch's new brackish desalination plant started treating water from the Delta. I wrote about the new facility along with the role brackish desalination is playing in the state's water supply strategy for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social.
www.kneedeeptimes.org/antioch-desa...
www.kneedeeptimes.org/antioch-desa...
Antioch Desalination Plant Provides Path to Water Conservation
The $120 million plant opened this fall and treats 8 million gallons of brackish water a day, 75% of which is drinkable.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This fall, the city of Antioch's new brackish desalination plant started treating water from the Delta. I wrote about the new facility along with the role brackish desalination is playing in the state's water supply strategy for @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social.
www.kneedeeptimes.org/antioch-desa...
www.kneedeeptimes.org/antioch-desa...
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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#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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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New research reveals that #flooding events send massive loads of sand to eroding #beaches, giving them a natural boost against rising seas. San Lorenzo River delivers enough sediment during wet years to elevate Santa Cruz's Main Beach for 3-4 years. #SeaLevelRise
📷: Peter Pearsall
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📷: Peter Pearsall
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October 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
New research reveals that #flooding events send massive loads of sand to eroding #beaches, giving them a natural boost against rising seas. San Lorenzo River delivers enough sediment during wet years to elevate Santa Cruz's Main Beach for 3-4 years. #SeaLevelRise
📷: Peter Pearsall
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📷: Peter Pearsall
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As fires and floods scare insurance companies away from high-risk areas, some communities are experimenting with innovative solutions. #Truckee, CA just scored the first US #wildfireinsurance policy that rewards communities for smart #forestmanagement. #WildfirePreparedness
📷: Steve Kuehl
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📷: Steve Kuehl
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October 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
As fires and floods scare insurance companies away from high-risk areas, some communities are experimenting with innovative solutions. #Truckee, CA just scored the first US #wildfireinsurance policy that rewards communities for smart #forestmanagement. #WildfirePreparedness
📷: Steve Kuehl
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📷: Steve Kuehl
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