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Advocates: New Senate Transportation Chair Should Be a Climate Champion

By Melanie Curry | Dec 8, 2020 | No Comments

With the new legislative session, California has opportunities for new leadership that recognizes that transportation policy can be a tool for fighting climate change.

Planners are still hoping that adding an auxiliary lane to this highway will relieve congestion. Source: Cruz511

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California Transportation Commission: S.B. 1 Projects Approved

By Melanie Curry | Dec 4, 2020 | No Comments

Concerns were raised about continuing to invest in car infrastructure, but project list was approved anyway. Also: S.B. 1 brings economic development, jobs; Active Transportation Program gets some love; Equity Advisory Roundtable is almost full.

Op-Ed: Pros and Cons of the California Public Utility Commission Decision to Deploy Automated Vehicles

By Mollie D’Agostino and Prashanth Venkataram | Dec 3, 2020 | No Comments

New regulations bring California a few steps closer to realizing the sustainable, equitable, and safe transition to an automated vehicle future, but there are caveats.

Op-Ed: It Is Time to Appoint Real Climate Leaders Who Understand Equity and Justice in California

By Amy Yockus Hartman and Nailah Pope Harden | Dec 2, 2020 | No Comments

California needs bold leadership at every level and in every agency to ensure the Governor's visionary Executive Orders become reality.

Minimum parking requirements don’t just raise rents. They’ve also resulted in some remarkably ugly buildings. Photo by Patrick Siegman

Op-Ed: Berkeley’s Outdated Parking Laws Are a Recipe for High Rents and Homelessness

By Patrick Siegman | Dec 1, 2020 | No Comments

Berkeley's City Council to consider removing minimum parking regulations and requiring unbundling of costs for certain types of homes

By Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz/Yes! Magazine, 2020. For sources see article cited

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California’s Efforts to Reduce Pollution, Greenhouse Gases Are Inextricable from Environmental Justice

By Melanie Curry | Nov 24, 2020 | No Comments

Yes! Magazine offers a short history and explainer for cap-and-trade and its EJ issues

This stretch of the Maricopa Highway in Ojai is about to get a quick-build pilot parking protected bike lane. This view is looking back towards town, along the northbound side of the 4-lane road. Image from Google Street View

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Ojai Readies a Protected Bike Lane Demonstration on a State Highway

By Melanie Curry | Nov 13, 2020 | No Comments

"Quick-build" methods, while still new, are seeing a lot of interest in California and elsewhere.

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A Quick Look at the Biden-Harris Clean Energy Plan, and its California Connections

By Melanie Curry | Nov 12, 2020 | No Comments

Policy recommendations advise replicating some of California's best programs, but time is precious.

The Greenlining Institute's ideas for a "greenlined economy" include democratic, cooperative structures that are inclusive, regenerative, and don't exploit people.

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What Does it Take to Meet State Climate and Equity Goals?

By Melanie Curry | Nov 6, 2020 | No Comments

California agencies - CARB, CTC, and HCD - come together to find a path towards meeting all kinds of state goals on climate change, environment, justice and equity, and sustainability

What to Do Today: A Walking Meditation, and Distractions

By Melanie Curry | Nov 3, 2020 | No Comments

While the best time to start a walking meditation practice may have been in 2016, the second-best time is today.

Protest in Marin, June 2020. Photo by Daniel Arauz

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California Agencies Begin to Grapple With Racial Equity and Environmental Justice

By Melanie Curry | Oct 29, 2020 | No Comments

California Air Resources Board hosts heated exchange over perceived lack of transparency on racial justice statement; other state agencies moving towards learning about dismantling their racist structures

Op-Ed: Battle over Prop 21 Shows Wall Street Landlords Put Profits Over People

By Joshua Shure | Oct 28, 2020 | No Comments

The newest rent control measure would protect small landlords while forcing more accountability on corporate landlords

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