Drawdown’s Neighborhood, presented by Project Drawdown, is a series of short documentaries featuring the stories of climate solutions heroes, city by city across America. For its sixth edition, the series heads to the West Coast in Drawdown’s Neighborhood: San Francisco Bay Area.
The first episode launches today, with each of the remaining six episodes dropping every weekday from now until Friday, August 30. Be sure to to subscribe to our YouTube channel here to be alerted when each episode drops.
The San Francisco Bay Area – home to nine counties, more than 100 cities and towns, and over 7 million people – exemplifies climate leadership, environmental justice, and innovative renewable technologies. It is a model for how cities, residents, organizations, and businesses can work together to respond to the intensifying regional impacts of climate change, from heat waves and wildfires to flooding and rising sea levels. As a global hub of diversity, culture, and technology, the Bay Area has enormous economic, social, and political power to address climate change in ways that ripple across sectors and the world. The land known as the Bay Area is the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Native homelands of the Muwekma Ohlone, Chochenyo, Karkin, Ramaytush, Yokuts, Miwok, Southern Pomo, Kashaya, Patwin, and Mishewal Wappo.
Drawdown's Neighborhood: San Francisco Bay Area features the stories of seven change-makers representing some of the communities most immediately affected by climate change, including Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color, who are too often excluded from dialogues about solutions. Each climate hero is building momentum in the Bay Area and beyond to stop climate change and create a healthier, more just future for all.
Voices of the San Francisco Bay Area
Join host and Project Drawdown director of storytelling and engagement Matt Scott on a journey to "pass the mic" to climate heroes whose stories often go unheard and elevate climate action:
Share These Stories
Help us amplify the work of these San Francisco Bay Area climate heroes by sharing their stories with others in your network and across social media. Please feel free to copy and paste the posts below:
Sample post 1:
Let’s hear it for climate heroes! Check out #DrawdownsNeighborhood: #SanFranciscoBayArea, presented by @ProjectDrawdown – a short doc series that tells the stories of 7 changemakers bringing climate solutions to their communities and beyond. www.drawdown.org/neighborhood
Sample post 2:
Join @ProjectDrawdown on a journey to #PassTheMic to climate heroes whose stories too often go unheard. We’re taking you to the #SanFranciscoBayArea to show you how 7 local changemakers are creating a healthier, more livable future for all. www.drawdown.org/neighborhood
Sample post 3:
Need inspiration for #climateaction in your own community? #DrawdownsNeighborhood: #SanFranciscoBayArea features 7 stories from unsung heroes who are using climate solutions to usher in a better, greener future. www.drawdown.org/neighborhood
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