Risky Business: Underinsured Against Climate Disaster

September 30, 2022

Home and property insurance is complicated and typically boring – until a disaster happens to you. In recent years, hundreds of thousands of...

Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home

December 23, 2021

When it comes to rising seas and other climate threats, how do we figure out when to stay and when to go?  The concept of managed retreat –...

Preparing for Disasters We Don’t Want to Think About

September 24, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses and inequities that existed long before 2020. Like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate disruption...

Building a Resilient Tomorrow

February 14, 2020

How do we build communities that are more resilient than the ones we were raised in? 
Climate-fueled floods, fires and droughts have devastated...

Law and Disorder: Climate Change in the Courts

October 18, 2019

Climate change is affecting every aspect of our lives - our environment, our health, our economy and our future. And now, it’s even creeping...

REWIND: Climate Winners and Losers

July 5, 2019

Do you live somewhere that might actually benefit from climate change? Rising temperatures and seas will produce losers and winners. Some parts of...

National Security and Climate Change

August 17, 2018

What’s the connection between climate change and national security? “Military commanders don't operate on the basis of fiction,” says Leon...

Climate Winners and Losers

June 17, 2018

The new climate reality means that even those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, and those living in the North will be...

Can the Internet of Things be Green and Safe?

July 20, 2016

Today’s smart homes can be managed from your phone; banking can be done with the swipe of an app. But how vulnerable are we to hackers and...

Liccardo, Schaaf and Ting vs. Global Warming

April 21, 2016

The global effects of climate disruption will have local impacts on the Bay Area. The political leaders of this region are already planning for a...