TransForm published the report Pricing Roads, Advancing Equity earlier this year. Image courtesy TransForm. In many parts of the Bay Area driving is more like plodding, with heavy feet on the brakes because of record-level gridlock on roads and streets …
Disposing food waste separately from other garbage is an important step in fighting climate change. Photo by Alec MacDonald. For many Bay Area residents, an opportunity to fight climate change comes at least three times a day, as they choose what to ea …
Operated by Waste Management, the Altamont Landfill in Livermore is one of the largest in Northern California. These photos of its active face were taken in January 2019 as part of a periodic inspection conducted by Alameda County. Photo courtesy CalRe …
Regional policymakers see “missing middle” types of housing as vital to addressing the Bay Area’s housing crisis. Photo courtesy of Opticos Design. In July of 2017, the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the Metropolitan Transportation Comm …
Novato Creek (the thin line of water snaking out from the bottom left side of the above photo) in eastern Marin County is one of three Bay Area creek systems to have gone through a visioning process for establishing a more natural interface with tidal …
The Coastal Conservancy’s new call for proposals continues the agency’s efforts to fund equitable recreational access to the coast, like the Community Shuttle program that brought these kids to Baker Beach in 2014. Photo by Alison Taggart-Barone, Golde …
PurpleAir online mapping of the East Bay at the end of January shows real-time air quality data from sensors around the region. Image captured on 1/26/19 from PurpleAir.com. “If we can’t see or smell fine particulate matter in our air, it’s hard to be …
The construction team that has been working on the Santa Clara Valley Water District’s retrofit of the Rinconada Water Treatment Plant demonstrated its progress on the project by providing the agency with this photo, which was taken with a drone. Photo …
More charging stations are needed for California to accommodate the increase in electric vehicle use. Photo by Alec MacDonald. The state is driving toward a future in which five million zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) will navigate California roads by 20 …
The Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative’s newest plot is in Redwood Regional Park. Photo by Alec MacDonald. In late October, a small group of researchers descended on a rectangular plot in Redwood Regional Park, a popular hiking spot in the East Bay …