What was different about 2019 was the response to climate change. More people started clamoring for a Green New Deal, Democratic presidential candidates began talking fluently about the crisis & young climate activists took to the streets to demand action! bit.ly/2SBZdbz

“The U.S. learned nearly a century ago that "levees only" is a failed path.” The safest way forward, for people and the environment, is to give rivers room. Scientific American bit.ly/2ZrKl04

It's 2020 & its time to change the way we think about disposables! AB No. 619 is the new CA statewide law that allows food vendors to serve customers in reusable containers & lets the public bring reusable containers to restaurants for take-out. ♻️🍱

👇Up next: floodplains and coastal property

What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring? newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… via The New Yorker

“Imagine dense but livable cities veined with public transit and leafy parks… humming away to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere… species recovering and rewilding the world, the rivers silver with fish, the skies musical with flocking birds.” nyti.ms/35AXmq9

"By the year 2050...many places around the world, including in the U.S., are going to experience the historical once in a hundred year flood level once a year or more frequently...Places like Los Angeles..."

Almost none of our debate acknowledges how inevitably disruptive the climate emergency (and the need to respond to it) has become to human systems we still think of as "too big to change."

Imagine a Los Angeles that captured its own rain as a first step against floods and water scarcity. Activist Melanie Winter has a great thread here on what that could look like.

It's past time for FEMA to account for climate change in their mapping and policies. Communities deserve accurate and transparent risk information. #FloodFEMA #FixFlooding

Announcing Healthy Streets LA, a ballot measure mandating that City of Los Angeles implement its own Mobility Plan when repaving streets. Despite LA City Council passing the plan in 2015, only 3% has been implemented (in 7 years!) It's time for a paradigm shift. healthystreetsla.com (1/8)

Check out this piece in today's CalMatters about our latest climate-adaptive, nature-based work in Sepulveda Basin. #multisolving #30x30 Big thanks to Climate Reality San Fernando Valley, CA calmatters.org/commentary/202…

The Executive Summary for our soon-to-be-released "Feasibility Study for Restoration of the Los Angeles River & Tributaries in the Sepulveda Basin" (phew) is live. #EngineeringWithNature #Multisolving Check it out here: theriverproject.org/sepulveda-basi…

Every house and yard in Southern California should be outfitted with rainwater harvesting tools because of the potential water savings, says Melanie Winter, founder and director of the River Project. latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…

"We emerge from drought when we restore floodplains...to restore depleted aquifers...limit waste, update our laws...and take other steps to reorient ourselves and society to fir the new way Mother Nature sends us water." latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Join us for a conversation about the potential of the Sepulveda Basin as a model of nature-based solutions to our #water and #habitat problems! #biodiversity @CD6LACity #LARiver ncsa.la/sepulveda_basi…

“Even as the city’s Bureau of Engineering and The River Project pursue two separate visions of the Sepulveda Basin, city officials are planning for the 2028 Olympics”dailynews.com/2023/04/28/can…

Talked with Extinction Rebellion Los Angeles on KPFK yesterday about reclaiming floodplains, urban acupuncture, and how crucial a healthy Los Angeles River system is to our climate resilient future. xrlosangeles.org/xrnow/ep26