Berkeley Climate Equity Action
@climateequity.bsky.social
A voice for climate action that leaves no one behind. Focused on Berkeley, California.
It’s amazing to see that Palo Alto is as car brained as any other American city. They finally discovered Bicycle Boulevards 50 years after my home town in Iowa did.
But they rejected protected lanes that go where people want to go.
www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...
But they rejected protected lanes that go where people want to go.
www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...
Bike plan veers away from Palo Alto's big streets
After facing community resistance, Palo Alto is veering away from its earlier plan to focus the next round of major bike and pedestrian improvements on large arteries such as University Avenue, Middle...
www.paloaltoonline.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
It’s amazing to see that Palo Alto is as car brained as any other American city. They finally discovered Bicycle Boulevards 50 years after my home town in Iowa did.
But they rejected protected lanes that go where people want to go.
www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...
But they rejected protected lanes that go where people want to go.
www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...
Congrats to the @berkeleyca.gov Parks Department for moving ahead on the Gilman Soccer complex upgrade. Bathrooms! Pickle ball! Kiddy soccer field!
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Pickleball players rejoice: A Berkeley park is adding 6 courts
A $6.5 million project will also bring long-awaited new permanent restrooms to the Tom Bates Regional Sports Complex.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Congrats to the @berkeleyca.gov Parks Department for moving ahead on the Gilman Soccer complex upgrade. Bathrooms! Pickle ball! Kiddy soccer field!
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People like to hate on self-driving cars, but they are far more law-abiding than human drivers. They are good at following rules.
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Op-ed: Waymo May Finally Teach Americans the Speed Limit - Streetsblog San Francisco
Do Americans even understand that posted speed limits aren't advisory?
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November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
People like to hate on self-driving cars, but they are far more law-abiding than human drivers. They are good at following rules.
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I have some really good news and in keeping with vibes, will share it here, and not there:
A few months ago I noticed how New York City has been positively conquered by bicycles. It's true, and it's amazing. More work to do, but the tides have turned.
The good news: It is happening in Berkeley!!
A few months ago I noticed how New York City has been positively conquered by bicycles. It's true, and it's amazing. More work to do, but the tides have turned.
The good news: It is happening in Berkeley!!
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I have some really good news and in keeping with vibes, will share it here, and not there:
A few months ago I noticed how New York City has been positively conquered by bicycles. It's true, and it's amazing. More work to do, but the tides have turned.
The good news: It is happening in Berkeley!!
A few months ago I noticed how New York City has been positively conquered by bicycles. It's true, and it's amazing. More work to do, but the tides have turned.
The good news: It is happening in Berkeley!!
Does anybody else think the fire department is out of control? Is an unreasonable obsession with safety more important than quality of life?
Thank you @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social for pushing back.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/21/b...
Thank you @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social for pushing back.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/21/b...
Telegraph Holiday Fair will stay in longtime home as city reverses course
Berkeley officials previously said the Telegraph Holiday Fair would have to move from its longtime home near Cal.
www.berkeleyside.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Does anybody else think the fire department is out of control? Is an unreasonable obsession with safety more important than quality of life?
Thank you @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social for pushing back.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/21/b...
Thank you @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social for pushing back.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/21/b...
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Apply for the Bay Area Regional Energy Network's Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Home Program, which helps income-eligible residents make energy upgrades that improve health and home comfort!
More Info: www.bayren.org/ease-home
More Info: www.bayren.org/ease-home
November 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Apply for the Bay Area Regional Energy Network's Efficiency and Sustainable Energy Home Program, which helps income-eligible residents make energy upgrades that improve health and home comfort!
More Info: www.bayren.org/ease-home
More Info: www.bayren.org/ease-home
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Apply for @airdistrict.bsky.social's Clean Cars for All program, which provides grants up to $12,000 for income-qualified residents to replace their car with an electric vehicle or a pre-paid card to use for public transit and purchase e-bikes! 🚗 🚲 🚌 🚇
More Info: www.baaqmd.gov/en/funding-a...
More Info: www.baaqmd.gov/en/funding-a...
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Apply for @airdistrict.bsky.social's Clean Cars for All program, which provides grants up to $12,000 for income-qualified residents to replace their car with an electric vehicle or a pre-paid card to use for public transit and purchase e-bikes! 🚗 🚲 🚌 🚇
More Info: www.baaqmd.gov/en/funding-a...
More Info: www.baaqmd.gov/en/funding-a...
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The Berkeley Holidays Community Giving Guide is your one-stop destination for spreading joy and giving back this holiday season!
View Guide: berkeleyholidays.com
Hosts: @berkeleyca.gov, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, Visit Berkeley, and business districts citywide
View Guide: berkeleyholidays.com
Hosts: @berkeleyca.gov, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, Visit Berkeley, and business districts citywide
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Berkeley Holidays Community Giving Guide is your one-stop destination for spreading joy and giving back this holiday season!
View Guide: berkeleyholidays.com
Hosts: @berkeleyca.gov, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, Visit Berkeley, and business districts citywide
View Guide: berkeleyholidays.com
Hosts: @berkeleyca.gov, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, Visit Berkeley, and business districts citywide
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⚡ Where does Ava's power actually come from?
Meet SunZia, coming online in Q3 of 2026. We have a 15-year contract for 250 MW of clean, carbon-free electricity from SunZia.
Meet SunZia, coming online in Q3 of 2026. We have a 15-year contract for 250 MW of clean, carbon-free electricity from SunZia.
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
⚡ Where does Ava's power actually come from?
Meet SunZia, coming online in Q3 of 2026. We have a 15-year contract for 250 MW of clean, carbon-free electricity from SunZia.
Meet SunZia, coming online in Q3 of 2026. We have a 15-year contract for 250 MW of clean, carbon-free electricity from SunZia.
Let's hear it for the Green Bin!
But I wonder if we should be making biogas instead of compost. Seems like a higher value product, both economically and environmentally. What do you think?
But I wonder if we should be making biogas instead of compost. Seems like a higher value product, both economically and environmentally. What do you think?
Some leftovers deserve another round at the table... others deserve the green bin.
Keep food waste out of the landfill and together we can turn scraps into soil.
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Keep food waste out of the landfill and together we can turn scraps into soil.
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Sort right, reuse more to help Berkeley cut landfill waste | City of Berkeley
Compost food waste. Recycle clean items. Buy what’s reusable and try to reduce buying what’s designed to be disposed. Berkeleyans know that green and blue bins are for compost and recycling, respectively. But paying attention to the details can divert more from landfills and even impact our climate.Toss more of your pizza boxes, coffee grounds, yard trimmings, and compostable fiber foodware into your green bin – instead of your gray household trash bin. Discard into that gray bin the milk cartons, pet waste, diapers, grease, rocks, and many plastic-looking utensils labeled “compostable.”
berkeleyca.gov
November 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Let's hear it for the Green Bin!
But I wonder if we should be making biogas instead of compost. Seems like a higher value product, both economically and environmentally. What do you think?
But I wonder if we should be making biogas instead of compost. Seems like a higher value product, both economically and environmentally. What do you think?
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I coauthored an opinion in Berkeleyside today, focusing on how the 26foot street clearance the Fire Department requires is being interpreted in ways that harm the city.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/19/2...
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/19/2...
Opinion: Berkeley should rethink rule requiring 26-foot clearance for fire trucks on city streets
Selective enforcement of an optional state fire code rule has harmed street fairs and farmers markets. If applied uniformly, many streets would lose half their parking. A policy better tailored to Ber...
www.berkeleyside.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I coauthored an opinion in Berkeleyside today, focusing on how the 26foot street clearance the Fire Department requires is being interpreted in ways that harm the city.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/19/2...
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/11/19/2...
Iowa City increased parking meter fees to help make city buses free. Ridership is way up, car travel is down.
What city is next?
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
What city is next?
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Iowa City increased parking meter fees to help make city buses free. Ridership is way up, car travel is down.
What city is next?
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
What city is next?
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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We've had a few (four!) seats open up for tomorrow evening's Kidical Mass / Cycling Without Age movie screening in downtown Berkeley. Sign up now if you're interested! luma.com/c4kfnmxx
An evening with Kidical Mass and Pedal Born Pictures · Luma
A special screening with...
Join us for a screening of two short documentaries by Berkeley's own Pedal Born Pictures: a premiere of "Kidical Mass", a film…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
We've had a few (four!) seats open up for tomorrow evening's Kidical Mass / Cycling Without Age movie screening in downtown Berkeley. Sign up now if you're interested! luma.com/c4kfnmxx
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Do you live in Berkeley and can’t afford to pay for kids’ recreation programs or a High Sierras camp for your family? We have scholarships to get half or all of the fees waived.
We’ll also help you apply.
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We’ll also help you apply.
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Scholarships available for kids, families for recreation programs | City of Berkeley
Apply online or register to attend workshops on Nov. 18 and Dec 9. Get help applying for 2026 scholarships, hardship waivers covering 50-100% of program fees. Do you live in Berkeley and can’t afford to pay for kids’ recreation programs or a High Sierras camp for your family? We have scholarships to get half or all of the fees waived. We’ll also help you apply.These fee waivers, which you can get by applying online, include programs for kids such as:
berkeleyca.gov
November 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Do you live in Berkeley and can’t afford to pay for kids’ recreation programs or a High Sierras camp for your family? We have scholarships to get half or all of the fees waived.
We’ll also help you apply.
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We’ll also help you apply.
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Our latest newsletter is out:
➡️ How Ava is responding to changing federal priorities
➡️ Early insights from our e-bike rebate program
➡️ Fremont chooses 100% renewable energy
➡️ Board Chair Betsy Andersen's vision for accessible, affordable decarbonization
Read more: https://lnks.gd/2/35LZ-MM
➡️ How Ava is responding to changing federal priorities
➡️ Early insights from our e-bike rebate program
➡️ Fremont chooses 100% renewable energy
➡️ Board Chair Betsy Andersen's vision for accessible, affordable decarbonization
Read more: https://lnks.gd/2/35LZ-MM
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Our latest newsletter is out:
➡️ How Ava is responding to changing federal priorities
➡️ Early insights from our e-bike rebate program
➡️ Fremont chooses 100% renewable energy
➡️ Board Chair Betsy Andersen's vision for accessible, affordable decarbonization
Read more: https://lnks.gd/2/35LZ-MM
➡️ How Ava is responding to changing federal priorities
➡️ Early insights from our e-bike rebate program
➡️ Fremont chooses 100% renewable energy
➡️ Board Chair Betsy Andersen's vision for accessible, affordable decarbonization
Read more: https://lnks.gd/2/35LZ-MM
Waterside Workshops is exactly the kind of thing the Climate Equity Action Fund would have supported, if it had been approved by Berkeley voters in 2020.
Now you can step up with your own donations.
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Now you can step up with your own donations.
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Berkeley’s Waterside Workshops reduces staff, cuts bike shop hours as funding dips
The Aquatic Park nonprofit has lost a pair of major funders and seen drops in bike sales. It’s launching a new gardening and cooking program.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Waterside Workshops is exactly the kind of thing the Climate Equity Action Fund would have supported, if it had been approved by Berkeley voters in 2020.
Now you can step up with your own donations.
flip.it/6iGUQR
Now you can step up with your own donations.
flip.it/6iGUQR
This adorable girl is at the Berkeley shelter and needs a home. No adoption fee!
They are open 11-3 tomorrow.
And lots more to choose from at www.friendsofbacs.org/adopt-dogs
They are open 11-3 tomorrow.
And lots more to choose from at www.friendsofbacs.org/adopt-dogs
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This adorable girl is at the Berkeley shelter and needs a home. No adoption fee!
They are open 11-3 tomorrow.
And lots more to choose from at www.friendsofbacs.org/adopt-dogs
They are open 11-3 tomorrow.
And lots more to choose from at www.friendsofbacs.org/adopt-dogs
“Saturday's crash was the fourth fatal traffic collision in Berkeley involving a cyclist or pedestrian this year.”
#VisionFour
#VisionFour
BREAKING: A cyclist died Saturday after a crash on Telegraph Avenue near UC Berkeley, authorities report.
Cyclist dead after Telegraph Avenue crash in Berkeley
Berkeley police have now taped off the block for an investigation and called in the Fatal Accident Investigation Team.
www.berkeleyscanner.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
“Saturday's crash was the fourth fatal traffic collision in Berkeley involving a cyclist or pedestrian this year.”
#VisionFour
#VisionFour
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A person on a bike was killed today on Telegraph because we allow automobiles in the most dense, car free area of Berkeley. And the fire dept is tripping that we make it too hard to drive on this street.
BREAKING: A cyclist died Saturday after a crash on Telegraph Avenue near UC Berkeley, authorities report.
Cyclist dead after Telegraph Avenue crash in Berkeley
Berkeley police have now taped off the block for an investigation and called in the Fatal Accident Investigation Team.
www.berkeleyscanner.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A person on a bike was killed today on Telegraph because we allow automobiles in the most dense, car free area of Berkeley. And the fire dept is tripping that we make it too hard to drive on this street.
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This is an absolutely blistering piece about the tragedy experienced by one family who lost a brother and son to traffic violence, and the systems that make these crashes keep happening.
"On paper, policymakers make lofty commitments to public transportation and road safety, placing the utmost value on human life. In practice, human life is not as important as the convenience of drivers — a policy choice that endangers every person in California."
www.modbee.com/news/califor...
www.modbee.com/news/califor...
She says her brother was murdered. In California, the crash was an ‘accident’
4,000 Californians die in car crashes each year, usually in preventable collisions. Why?
www.modbee.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is an absolutely blistering piece about the tragedy experienced by one family who lost a brother and son to traffic violence, and the systems that make these crashes keep happening.
Oh no, bad news for @radpowerbikes.bsky.social.
Not too late to visit their shop on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley.
electrek.co/2025/11/10/r...
Not too late to visit their shop on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley.
electrek.co/2025/11/10/r...
Rad Power Bikes says it may close down by January
Rad Power Bikes, one of the most well-known electric bicycle companies in North America, appears to be headed for collapse...
electrek.co
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Oh no, bad news for @radpowerbikes.bsky.social.
Not too late to visit their shop on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley.
electrek.co/2025/11/10/r...
Not too late to visit their shop on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley.
electrek.co/2025/11/10/r...
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🏘️🏗️ Berkeley homeowners seeking to build a new backyard unit or bedroom can now apply for permits that cost less, have clearer standards, and can get reviewed faster.
Starting November 1, “Middle Housing” zoning changes encourage building more housing in Berkeley.
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Starting November 1, “Middle Housing” zoning changes encourage building more housing in Berkeley.
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New zoning changes allow faster, cheaper process to build homes | City of Berkeley
Starting November 1, “Middle Housing” zoning changes encourage building more housing units in Berkeley. Berkeley homeowners seeking to build a new backyard unit or bedroom can now apply for permits that cost less, have clearer standards, and can get reviewed faster.Applicants also have a faster process with more certain outcomes to build small apartments in areas previously limited to single-family dwellings by following a checklist of set guidelines.
berkeleyca.gov
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🏘️🏗️ Berkeley homeowners seeking to build a new backyard unit or bedroom can now apply for permits that cost less, have clearer standards, and can get reviewed faster.
Starting November 1, “Middle Housing” zoning changes encourage building more housing in Berkeley.
berkeleyca.gov/commu...
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Starting November 1, “Middle Housing” zoning changes encourage building more housing in Berkeley.
berkeleyca.gov/commu...
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Ride @bart.gov @sfmta.bsky.social @rideact.bsky.social or other Bay Area transit agencies ? You're about to save a bunch of money with Clipper 2.0! Our trip saving calculator built w/ @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social & @tsch.uy will show you how much. See for yourself > clipper2.hikingbytransit.com
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November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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