Electric Avenue: One Oakland Block’s Improbable Journey to Ditch Gas
Roughly a quarter of California’s carbon emissions come from our buildings and the energy that powers them. We need to cut those emissions down to next to nothing to avoid the scary effects of climate change. Making a home green is pretty easy if you start from scratch. But it gets a whole lot harder when it comes to converting the millions of homes in California that already exist. The ones where most of us live. Climate reporter Laura Klivans takes us to East Oakland, where one city block is taking a revolutionary approach to reducing their emissions: by electrifying together, all at once. This story comes to us from KQED’s podcast Sold Out: Rethinking Housing In America.
‘Culture Cures’: Accordion Classes for Half Moon Bay Farmworkers Offer Healing Through Music
It’s been just over a year since mass shooting at two mushroom farms in Half Moon Bay killed seven farmworkers, immigrants from China and Mexico. One nonprofit has been providing survivors and the farmworker community with mental health support including a music therapy class that teaches people to play the accordion. KQED’s Blanca Torres brings us this story.