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‘We are taxing this legacy grid more and more.’ How to fix our power system
Pacific Gas & Electric’s 5.5 million electricity and 4.5 million gas customers have come to expect not much good from the company. First it was deadly, neighborhood-leveling gas explosions (opens in new tab); then deadly, town-leveling fires (opens in new tab); then year after year of hefty rate hikes (opens in new tab). The series of lengthy power outages that hit San Francisco neighborhoods beginning Dec. 20 has only intensified local outrage.
AI will force us to be more ambitious, more human storytellers
AI will force us to be more ambitious, more human storytellers “The human hands behind news will need to be more obvious.” -will-force-us-to-be-more-ambitious-more-human-sto If you too have access to a Chartbeat, Parse.ly, or other dashboard tracking metrics across a media site this year, you have my condolences and solidarity. The data is grim.
‘Beyond disappointing’: State won't fund loan for Bay Area transit
Let Friday's BART meltdown be a warning of transit — and traffic — to come. Lawmakers received word Saturday from the Governor's Department of Finance that it would not be finalizing the $750 million bridge loan that many hoped would prop up cash-strapped Bay Area transit agencies. The loan had been a part of the June budget, and would have been paid back over time by BART, Muni, CalTrain, AC Transit and other regional agencies.
Grainy photos of their roofs cost them their insurance. Now homeowners are fighting back.
The 1915 three-bedroom craftsman bungalow on Alameda's west end was showing its age when Evan Phillippe and his wife bought it in late 2008 for less than the asking price. It was just weeks after the housing bubble had burst spectacularly. "We rolled the dice and got damn lucky," said Phillippe. "And I've stayed here ever since." The yard was overgrown; the carpets were untacked and pulled back. But the roof was still in fighting shape.
The Bay's recent run of wildfire luck won't last
Lunder pulled the view closer to the southern end of the historic fire perimeter, revealing dense blocks of multi-story homes set on steep terrain. "And then what we see now, like with Palisades, is that when this burns, it's the houses that are burning house to house," he said. "It's not the brush. It's not a wildland fire." From 2017 to 2021, California experienced six of the 10 most destructive wildfires in its history.
LA's catastrophic fires could supercharge California's insurance crisis
As gale-force winds picked up this week around his home in Brentwood, the quiet neighborhood in the Westside of Los Angeles, Karl Susman had a bad feeling. Now, as fires torch swaths of the city's hillsides, Susman, the owner of an insurance agency, has evacuated to a relative's house, where he's been on the phone nonstop with clients steeling themselves to the possibility of untold loss. "There's so much that has been burned away ...
In California, Climate Chaos Looms Over Prisons - and Thousands of Prisoners - in a Lakebed
Ajamu spoke with TMP on the condition that his nickname, "Ajamu," be used to identify him because he feared retribution for speaking out. Precipitation and snowpack data from the California Department of Water Resources. National analysis based on data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Census Bureau. Floods and Droughts in the Tulare Lake Basin, by John T. Austin; Department of Water Resources.
In California, climate chaos looms over prisons - and thousands of prisoners - in a lake bed
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters here. Additional reporting by Geoff Hing. Illustrations and reporting by Susie Cagle. Cagle is a 2023 Alicia Patterson Foundation journalism fellow. Ajamu spoke with TMP on the condition that his nickname, “Ajamu,” be used to identify him because he feared retribution for speaking out.
Where Did Electronic Music Start? [Hackaday]
A culture in which it’s fair to say the community which Hackaday serves is steeped in, is electronic music. Within these pages you’ll find plenty of synthesisers, chiptune players, and …read more View Article on Hackaday A culture in which it’s fair to say the community which Hackaday serves is steeped in, is electronic music. Within these pages you’ll find plenty of synthesisers, chiptune players, and other projects devoted to synthetic sound.
Cruise denies its self-driving taxis hindered ambulance response in fatal pedestrian accident [TechSpot]
A San Francisco Fire Department report (via The New York Times) states that on August 14, two Cruise driverless vehicles stopped in the right two lanes of a four-lane, one-way street in the SoMa neighborhood, where the victim was found.
シェルター・イン・プレイス 山火事から「逃げない」 防災施策が注目される理由
The quest to build wildfire-resistant homes 米国カリフォルニア州やオーストラリアでは大規模な森林火災によってしばしば大きな被害が出ている。手頃な価格の住宅を求めて、住宅建設地はリスクの高い地域にも広がっている今、新しい防災へのアプローチが求められている。 by Susie Cagle2023.07.13 0 2008年11月13日、カリフォルニア州サンタバーバラ北方のモンテシトの丘で最初に上がった火の手は、最大時速137キロメートルの猛烈な突風によって煽られ、丘を下り人口密度の高い峡谷部へと燃え広がった。モンテシトにあるウェストモント大学で当時、組織強靱化担当理事を務めていたトロイ・ハリスは、急いで町の反対側にある大学のキャンパスへ向かった。キャンパスは、低木の茂みとユーカリが密生する山麓の丘にあった。ティー・ファイヤー（Tea...
De huir a defenderse: nuevas estrategias ante incendios forestales
Las primeras chispas que prendieron en las colinas de Montecito, sobre Santa Bárbara (California), el 13 de noviembre de 2008 fueron avivadas por los feroces vientos del atardecer, que soplaban a 85 millas por hora, empujando las llamas hacia el poblado cañón. Troy Harris, entonces director de Resiliencia Institucional del Westmont College de Montecito, corrió desde el otro extremo de la ciudad hasta el campus, que está enclavado en unas estribaciones densas de chaparral y eucaliptos.
Early spring, along the Kings river, during and before the flood
When I arrive at Terranova Ranch in early April 2023, Don Cameron’s dog Lily greets me at the front door of the ranch office barking. When I see Cameron I can understand why Lily is so protective. His shoulders are slumped, his brow hung lower than usual, his face slightly sunburnt. “Hi,” he sighs.
Who owns the flood (yes someone owns the flood)
Almost exactly a year ago, I was wrapping my first draft of my WIRED feature about capturing flood water in California. There’d been a brief spate of rain in December, and it almost looked like maybe there would be water to recharge with. My editor was momentarily gleeful – “maybe there will be a flood!” – that would really have made the story, no longer 8,000 words of future hypothesis but real live water on the ground here and now.
Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief
Loaded on published in Prison Legal News November, 2022, page 30 Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email by Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li, and Susie Cagle President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on police, prisons and the courts. (This article originally appeared on themarshallproject.org on September 7, 2022. It is reprinted here with permission.
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You probably didn't come here to read about babies, but hear me out. The last in-person interview I did before the pandemic was January 31, 2020 at the end of a week in the Central Valley reporting on groundwater and state regulations. We weren't in a drought then, but I spoke to people across Fresno and Tulare counties whose wells were running dry all the same. That week I began having an early miscarriage. I kept reporting through the blood and the pain, alone.
How one Missouri city spent COVID relief on sniper rifles, tactical helmets and police bonuses
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provides federal funding to local governments in amounts not seen in decades, giving them wide latitude to spend on police, corrections and courts. In Independence, those spending decisions proved controversial, with the debate among local officials reaching a boiling point at the city council meeting on October 4, 2021. Council members could not agree on amendments to the $20.3 million spending plan proposed by the city manager.
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How Independence, Missouri, Spends Its COVID-Relief Money on Police
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. The American Rescue Plan Act provides federal funding to local governments in amounts not seen in decades, giving them wide latitude to spend on police, corrections and courts.
How A Suburb Spent COVID Relief Funds on Sniper Rifles, Tactical Helmets and Police Bonuses
By Anastasia Valeeva and Susie Cagle The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provides federal funding to local governments in amounts not seen in decades, giving them wide latitude to spend on police, corrections and courts. In Independence, Missouri, a city of 117,000 just outside of Kansas City, those spending decisions proved controversial, with the debate among local officials reaching a boiling point at the city council meeting on October 4, 2021.
Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief
After signing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) last spring, President Joe Biden touted what the economic stimulus bill would deliver: food assistance to millions of people in need, lower healthcare premiums for millions of Americans, and $350 billion for state and local governments to spend on COVID-19 recovery. Economists say it was the largest infusion of federal funding in local governments in almost 40 years.
A Farmer’s Quest to Beat California’s Waves of Drought and Deluge
A Farmer’s Quest to Beat California’s Waves of Drought and Deluge by Susie Cagle | Apr 12, 2022 | News | Don Cameron went all in on a trickle-down survival tactic. It could help save America’s agricultural heartland—even if he doesn’t survive the new water war. Source link
A Farmer’s Quest to Beat California’s Waves of Drought and Deluge
In the fields at Terranova Ranch, it was as if a disaster had arrived. Don Cameron, clad in dark green waders, sloshed through the pond that had formed in his orchards and vineyards. More of his crops were underwater than at any time since he began farming in California’s San Joaquin Valley—a quarter of the almonds, a third of the grapes, half the pistachios, and all of the walnuts and olives.
Cities need to get dense to survive, says Alex Steffen
Published Oct 23, 2012 As cities become more attractive places for middle- and upper-class Americans to move and housing prices continue to climb, the poorer among us are forced into the suburbs — away from public transportation and toward car-dependence. Cities are growing in every way, except in terms of their social good and attainability. Alex Steffen, responding to a quote in a piece by Grist’s Claire Thompson, slaps down the anti-urbanist myth that density makes this problem worse.
Infocomic: New report shows big gains for cycling and transit, if not city infrastructure
Published Oct 26, 2012 A new report from the National Conference of State Legislatures is full to the brim with findings on American urbanism and transportation alternatives. They even mention environmental preservation 25 times! Transportation, energy and environmental policies are inextricably linked.
Zappos founder digs for community in the seedy streets of Vegas
Published Oct 22, 2012 This weekend’s New York Times Magazine profiles a particular kind of urban renewal happening amidst Las Vegas’ bright lights and big real estate downturn. The Downtown Project, headed up by Zappos chief exec Tony Hsieh, aims to build “the most community-focused large city in the world” with its $350 million — a reflection of Zappos’ own corporate focus on keeping customers deliriously happy.
Organic food may be best for kids, pediatricians say
Organic, babies! The American Academy of Pediatrics is weighing in for the first time on the conventional vs. organic debate. Its verdict? An “extensive analysis of scientific evidence,” it says, suggests that kids who eat organic produce, dairy, and meat “have lower pesticide levels, which may be significant for children.” Grist relies on the support of generous readers like you to keep our climate news free. All donations matched for a limited time.
Solar power saves school music program
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Published Oct 23, 2012 Some good news from California’s Central Valley: A small rural school district that made the switch to a $5 million solar power system is saving enough green to reinstate the music program it had to cut back in 2009. From the Fresno Beehive blog: How did Firebaugh-Las Deltas, a 2,300-student district, swing a deal like this? The district got help from a consulting firm to figure out if its payments on the loan would be less than the cost of its utility bills.
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New urban migration patterns shaped by the youngs
Published Oct 25, 2012 It may not feel like it, but the economy is slowly recovering, and with it Americans are once again on the move. smugglerskissYou can tell D.C.’s getting younger because all the photos of it are getting Instagramy. We already knew the suburbs were getting grayer as the olds stick around instead of packing up for retirement homes.
Future looks bright for dark skies movement
Published Oct 25, 2012 Bright lights, big nature? Urban studies have consistently shown that good street lighting can significantly reduce crime. But those lights and their inefficient plastic domes also stand to drastically reduce our awesome skyward views. Enter the growing “dark skies” movement, spreading from Europe to Texas to Africa to try to preserve our ability to just see the dang stars at night.
Post-Sandy, bike generators bring joy to NYC in the form of charged gadgets
Published Oct 31, 2012 Post-superstorm, cell charges are waning and urban dwellers are getting cranky. Or are they? It seems there’s some good neighborly cheer happening amidst the flood waters, as drawn here by Kate Beaton. Elsewhere in New York City, the direct-action group Time’s Up has also been providing bike-generated charges on the streets, to the surprise and delight of locals.
Sandy spooks East Coast Halloween
Published Oct 31, 2012 More Frankenstorm fallout, this time on the sweetest, creepiest, oddly sexiest night of the year. Will Sandy ruin Halloween? From the Huffington Post: Some children may be feeling fearful of trick-or-treating, even if mom and dad aren’t. Heading into the spookiest of holidays on the heels of a threatening natural disaster may take a toll on a young person’s psyche. Another thing that might take a toll: being denied an annual sugar-laden ritual. Yesterday New Jersey Gov.
How the USDA plans to plant around climate change
By Susie Cagle on Feb 28, 2013 Get weekly climate politics updates from Grist Subscribe to The First 100 A few weeks ago, the Department of Agriculture released a pretty devastating report on just how bad climate change is going to suck for things we plant in the ground in America. Short version: T minus 25ish years until we hit Armageddon-like scenarios for agriculture and forests. That might sound hopeless, but Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is not discouraged.
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How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System
Corporate consolidation has left the US with a health care system built for profit, not people.
How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System
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What good is a single-use plastics ban if it doesn't include water bottles?
On Wednesday, the Canadian government announced the list of single-use plastic products it plans to ban. Shockingly, the list does not include plastic water bottles. This is a serious oversight that must be remedied. The plastics crisis is destroying our lakes, rivers and oceans. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature reports that “at least eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year," negatively affecting all marine species.
The Shutdown Is Great for Lenders
As 800,000 furloughed workers suffer a second missed paycheck, credit unions, banks, and finance companies are reaping the rewards. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was produced with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Correction: a previous version of this story incorrectly stated the department that issues food stamps. It is the US Department of Agriculture, not the Food and Drug Administration. Ad Policy
Why Is Bank of America Asking Clients About Their Citizenship?
Lenders discriminate against immigrants—and often, it’s perfectly legal. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Bookmark (Image by Susie Cagle) Ready to fight back? Sign up for Take Action Now and get three actions in your inbox every week. You will receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You can read our Privacy Policy here. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue.
The incredible leaning flip of West Oakland
"Modern, open floor plan with charming colors," theZillow listing ad claims. "A lot of the work was done with permits." Another listing: "New dining room, new living room, new kitchen, new bedrooms, new bathrooms. New windows, new roof." But in one of the hottest real estate markets in the country, in a neighborhood where homes sell for more than 10 percent above list on average—and fast—2523 has sat empty on the market for months.
Uber, Lyft, and Revel Curfew Closures Leave Commuters Stranded
On Tuesday, New York City’s mayor Bill De Blasio announced that the city’s 8pm — 5am curfew would remain in place at least through the week. The next day, Revel, which had recently expanded its fleet of shared electric mopeds in order to service more essential workers during the coronavirus crisis, and Lyft-owned CitiBike announced that they would be shutting down their services at 6pm — two hours before city-mandated curfew orders went into effect.
'Fees are murder': delivery apps profit as restaurants forced to close doors
Photograph: John G Mabanglo/EPA California restaurants were some of the first in the US to close in order to stem the spread of the coronavirus. And in the food service industry’s crisis, third-party delivery platforms have found great opportunity. As businesses have been forced to close their dining rooms amid shelter-in-place orders, many have attempted a quick pivot to takeout and delivery.
Thousands of wells in rural California may run dry
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration When Carolina Garcia’s well began pumping sand and air instead of water in 2016, she didn’t know where to turn. The Garcias had been living in Tombstone Territory, a quiet four-street community in California’s San Joaquin Valley, for 10 years.
Thirsty crops and vulnerable families vie for California’s precious water
Farmers are pumping until residential wells run dry in the Central Valley. Susie Cagle March 4, 2020 Like Tweet Email Print Subscribe Donate Now Much of the water that is left for residential use is poisoned by farm runoff and by natural toxins in the soil. This story was originally published by the The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of theClimate Deskcollaboration. When Carolina Garcia’s well began pumping sand and air instead of water in 2016, she didn’t know where to turn.
Where do the 2020 Democratic candidates stand on the climate crisis?
With the California Democratic primary taking place on Super Tuesday this presidential season, the most populous, delegate-rich state in the US will have more influence than ever over choosing the party’s nominee. That influence will reflect the particular priorities of California Democratic primary voters, who in a December poll named the climate crisis as their highest priority for the next president.
'Lost communities': thousands of wells in rural California may run dry
Added by Debra Tash on February 28, 2020. Saved under News, State Tags: private wells, rural California, Susie Cagle, The Guardian, wells by Susie Cagle When Carolina Garcia’s well began pumping sand and air instead of water in 2016, she didn’t know where to turn. The Garcias had been living in Tombstone Territory, a quiet four-street community in California’s San Joaquin Valley, for 10 years.
'Lost communities': thousands of wells in rural California may run dry
When Carolina Garcia’s well began pumping sand and air instead of water in 2016, she didn’t know where to turn. The Garcias had been living in Tombstone Territory, a quiet four-street community in California’s San Joaquin Valley, for 10 years. In the middle of the state’s historic drought, many of the farms surrounding Tombstone Territory had installed new wells and deepened existing ones. Despite being just two miles from the Kings river, Tombstone was drying up.
Everything you need to know about California's historic water law
California began regulating surface water in rivers and streams in 1914, but it took the state another 100 years to look underground. In 2014, for the first time in its history, California passed a law regulating the use of groundwater – the resource on which 85% of its population and much of its $50bn agriculture industry rely.
California drier than its been in 150 years
This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration San Francisco and Sacramento have not seen a drop of rain this February, and climate scientists are expecting that disturbing dry trend to hold, in what is typically one of the wettest months of the year for California. “This hasn’t happened in 150 years or more,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Dry February sends California back to drought: 'This hasn't happened in 150 years'
San Francisco and Sacramento have not seen a drop of rain this February, and climate scientists are expecting that disturbing dry trend to hold, in what is typically one of the wettest months of the year for California. “This hasn’t happened in 150 years or more,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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