The Community Development Innovation Review offers strategies to address climate change risk in low- and moderate-income communities. It contains multiple perspectives on equitable community planning
Environmental Justice (EJ)
Technical Assistance
Climate change impacts do not affect all communities in the same way. California must move beyond embracing equity to making equity real. This requires centering community needs and building social
In 2016, the Legislature passed Senate Bill No. 1000 (SB 1000) requiring cities and counties that have disadvantaged communities to incorporate environmental justice (EJ) policies into their General
The Assessment: Resilient by Design (RbD) Bay Area Challenge report was commissioned by the RbD Executive Committee. Through interviews of participants, its purpose is to assess the impact and
In Connecting People to Climate Risks, the multidisciplinary design teams and Resilient by Design Challenge partners share lessons learned in activating community participation and interest in climate
The Building Resilience: Four Ways to Find Resources for Protection and Prevention graphic presentation provides strategies for raising the financial resources needed to broadly adapt to climate
To protect local neighborhoods and restore native habitats, The All Bay Collective (ABC) is rethinking the shoreline around San Leandro Bay with the creation of Estuary Commons. Through the
Collect & Connect - Resilient South City is a proposal to create more public green space and continuous public access along South San Francisco’s Colma Creek. The proposal aims to reduce the impacts
“Elevate San Rafael” is a new paradigm for responding to complex environmental change and simply what needs to be done: occupy higher elevations and raise the quality of life and social connection for
The South Bay Sponge is a design framework for adaptation: for adapting our shoreline and infrastructure and for advancing our methods of planning, design and cooperation to achieve new and resilient