by TEAM APEN | Oct 24, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Issues, Statewide, Stories
Mapping Resilience PUBLISHED JUNE 2019 There is a need to better characterize and promote the notion of community resilience as part of broader adaptation strategies toward a vision that is deeply rooted in climate justice and equity. Various sectors are...
by TEAM APEN | Oct 19, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Media, Statewide, Stories
SF Chronicle: Disaster disparity: California spreads emergency training to diverse communities By Dustin Gardiner Cliff Gooden rushes to save a rubber dummy — an elderly man for the purposes of this training demonstration — trapped under a ceiling beam that has fallen...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 3, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Media, Statewide, Stories
NPR: As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most Baltimore’s Franklin Square neighborhood is hotter than about two-thirds of the neighborhoods in the city. It’s also in one of Baltimore’s poorest areas. Ian Morton for NPR By Meg...
by TEAM APEN | Aug 23, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Statewide, Stories
APEN Senior Policy Researcher, Amee Raval hiking at Banff National Park, Alberta. This summer marks the two-year anniversary of my bike accident. I was biking to work, stopped in the bike lane at a major West Oakland intersection, waiting for the light to turn green,...
by TEAM APEN | Mar 14, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Statewide, Stories
Last year, hundreds of APEN members got together to take on the issues that matter most — rising energy costs, skyrocketing rents, and hazardous living conditions that are destabilizing our communities. Together, we created a solution that makes it possible for...
by TEAM APEN | Feb 24, 2019 | Climate Resilience, Media, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Sacramento Bee Opinion: We can’t wait for Washington’s Green New Deal. California needs just transition now. By Miya Yoshitani and Gladys Limón As the deadliest wildfire in a century raged in Butte County last year, leaving 85 people dead and thousands without homes,...
