California community activism news
The sidewalk on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights, San Francisco looking north from Bush Street. July 2005. Attribution: Christopher Beland
Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across California.
2025
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Strengthening The Connective Tissue Of Democracy, noemamag.com (Feb 27, 2025) - Green Microgrids Are Powering a More Resilient Future, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jan 17, 2025)
- The ‘convoy of incredible people’ saving animals from California’s infernal fires, theguardian.com (Jan 14, 2025)
2024
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- The California Doughnut finds that California is overshooting planetary boundaries on 89% of ecological indicators, and falling short of delivering basic needs for all people on all social indicators, caldec.org (Dec 31, 2024) — The average ecological overshoot is 283%, whilst the average social shortfall is 34%
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- US approves first-ever tribal marine sanctuary: ‘Our community’s hard work has come to fruition’, theguardian.com (Oct 19, 2024)
- The Californians Rescuing Surplus Produce to Fight Hunger, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 01, 2024)
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- “Attorney General Bonta is leading the way to corporate accountability and a cleaner and healthier world", news.mongabay.com (Sep 24, 2024) — "This lawsuit will set an invaluable precedent for others to follow,” Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics
- ‘Transformational’: how a California city launched America’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2024)
- Millions of Californians live near oil and gas wells that are in the path of wildfires, latimes.com (Jul 21, 2024)
- California Communities Celebrate ‘Massive’ Victory as Oil Industry Drops Unpopular Referendum, insideclimatenews.org (Jul 01, 2024)
- The Towns Outsmarting Airbnb, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 02, 2024)
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- California proposes fracking phaseout, making good on Newsom’s pledge, thehill.com (Feb 19, 2024)
- To save its coastal rail line, California will need to move it away from the ocean, Editorial, latimes.com (Feb 09, 2024)
- California's first ever U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area declared, Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Jan 29, 2024)
- Groundwater Levels Around the World Are Dropping Quickly, Often at Accelerating Rates, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 24, 2024)
- It’s 2024. Time to start acting like climate change actually matters, Sammy Roth, latimes.com (Jan 04, 2024)
2023
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- California children sue EPA over ‘intentional’ role in climate crisis, theguardian.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- ‘There’s still beauty’: a national park bounces back after California’s biggest single fire, theguardian.com (Oct 23, 2023)
- Climate: California governor signs law requiring big businesses to disclose emissions, lemonde.fr/en (Oct 08, 2023)
- Flock of California Condors Spotted In Contra Costa County for the First Time in 100 Years., sfist.com (Sep 25, 2023)
- Thinking Long-Term: Why We Should Bring Back Redwood Forests, e360.yale.edu (Sep 25, 2023)
- Three California Tribal Nations Declare First U.S. Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area, nativenewsonline.net (Sep 21, 2023)
- California sues oil companies claiming they downplayed the risk of fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2023)
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- Defuelling California’s wildfires with sheep, chinadialogue.net (Aug 10, 2023) — If rotated wisely, sheep and cattle can graze away the fuel of deadly wildfires in the American West
- How California’s Wiyot Tribe turned to community land trusts to fight for justice, thenews.coop (Aug 03, 2023) — 'Access to the land and going back to their ancestral lands is part of the healing process for a lot of Indigenous groups'
- Microplastics found in the soil on farms used to grow crops, newscientist.com (Jul 12, 2023)
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- The Indigenous forest collective restoring a corner of California, Positive News (Jun 20, 2023)
- News collaboratives, youth media outlets, and a newsletter bee (“La Abeja”) buzzing around Latin communities. A better media, in California Central Valley, The Daily Alternative (Jun 17, 2023)
- Surviving the smoke-pocalypse 101: Californians offer advice to New Yorkers, theguardian.com (Jun 09, 2023)
- ‘Six times the size of Yosemite’: the new tribal sanctuary off the super-rich California coast, earthisland.org (May 18, 2023)
- How We Lit Our California Homestead on Fire, medium.com (May 03, 2023)
- In times of scarcity, California’s best new source of water? Reuse., andthewest.stanford.edu (Feb 08, 2023)
2022
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- First solar canal project is a win for water, energy, air and climate in California, The Conversation (Dec 22, 2022)
- US approves largest dam removal in history to save endangered salmon, The Guardian (Nov 17, 2022) — Four dams on California-Oregon border to be decommissioned on Klamath River, which fish use to reach spawning grounds
- The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance now has 10 core members (Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Greenland, Ireland, Portugal, Quebec, Sweden, Wales, and Washington State), two associate members (California and New Zealand), and five "friends of BOGA" (Chile, Fiji, Finland, Italy, and Luxembourg)., beyondoilandgasalliance.org (Nov 16, 2022) — BOGA is an international alliance of governments and stakeholders working together to facilitate the managed phase-out of oil and gas production, led by the governments of Denmark and Costa Rica
- Drought-stricken US warned of looming 'dead pool', BBC News (Jun 03, 2022)
- The return of California's butterflies, BBC News (May 08, 2022)
- E-bike package delivery is coming to L.A., Fast Company (Jan 28, 2022)
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