(she/her) Climate change adaptation researcher + Resilience Analyst at the CPUC, Sacramento. Opinions are my own. 🏳️‍🌈 http://pacificadaptation.blogspot.com https://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3ma2su42p4k2vAttention homeowners planning to go fully electric! On Oct 13 I turned off my last gas appliance. I was then charged $45 for gas use in November. I didn't realize I would still be charged for gas even if I didn't use it. I had to call both PG&E & Vista, the gas procurer, to cancel gas service.15 Dec 2025 23:45 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma2su42p4k2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3m4qu4axqak2uA little belatedly sharing a post I wrote in October for my climate adaptation research blog "The Past Is Not An Option" about the oddity of clean fuels proponents supporting measures to keep California's oil refineries open. Strange bedfellows indeed! tinyurl.com/3r2kx74y http://pacificadaptation.blogspot.com/2025/10/strange-bedfellows.html03 Nov 2025 20:25 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qu4axqak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3m3nsx5yn5c2mToday the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and UC Berkeley Human Rights Center co-published a white paper on how the Sonoma County Agricultural Access Verification Card Program (“Ag Pass”) program affects farmworkers’ well-being and economic security during wildfires tinyurl.com/ycx5u5y3 https://tinyurl.com/ycx5u5y320 Oct 2025 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3nsx5yn5c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lwurwtcvps2mI updated my adaptation research blog with information about how to plant the right tree in the right place in California! Things can go wrong if you don't plan ahead. https://pacificadaptation.blogspot.com/2025/08/right-tree-right-place.html21 Aug 2025 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwurwtcvps2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lwshv7pd4c2sI think this is the first instance of the state setting up a protection plan for a plentiful species that faces extinction under future climate conditions LA Times article on the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act - from Aug 16, 2025, reprinted w/o paywall https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/california-approves-unprecedented-plan-protect-100000344.html20 Aug 2025 03:21 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwshv7pd4c2shttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lthrpbevos2xSomething I'm telling myself today, maybe someone else needs to hear: despair is a LUXURY Those on the front lines of structural racism & climate impacts don't have a choice, they have to cope w/ what's happening, they don't get to check out Rest. Then return to building a safer & more just world.08 Jul 2025 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lthrpbevos2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lsmkevrprs24The March 19 EO "Achieving Efficiency Through State and Local Preparedness" required a National Resilience Strategy within 90 days (June 17). Did anything get published? I mean after Biden's National Resilience Strategy (20 p.) or National Adaptation & Resilience Strategy (898 p.) published in Jan.27 Jun 2025 21:08 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsmkevrprs24https://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lsmhrd3ru224I was recently voted on to the City of Davis' Climate & Environmental Justice Commission & before I'm sworn in I have to do some onboarding trainings. I'm watching the conflict of interest training- it has a slide that just says "Do Not Take Bribes" - with a photo of ex-SF Public Works Dir. M. Nuru27 Jun 2025 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsmhrd3ru224https://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lr6qhv2p5k2uJust a reminder as you get your signs ready for next Saturday please put a message on both sides of your sign The people standing behind you also want to know what you have to say09 Jun 2025 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr6qhv2p5k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lp65ou2c7s2dMy entry point into adaptation work was a 2008 talk by journalist Isabel Hilton on the dire implications of the loss of the Himalayan glaciers. After, there was a stunned silence. A voice asked "what can we do?" She said "work on climate adaptation." I wrote down the word "adaptation." [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2025 23:28 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp65ou2c7s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lp2yx54i4s2kThis sucks. “What seems so strange to me,” said Jason Vogel, deputy director of the Climate Impacts Group and co-director of the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative, “is that what initially appeared to be an attack on climate science [...] is becoming an attack on vulnerable communities.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2025 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2yx54i4s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lofgljkha22uWent to the Ruth Asawa retrospective at the SF MOMA today, looking at her work honoring those sent to detention under EO 9066 and the Alien Enemies Act & wondering when the monuments to the "Alien Enemies" removed to El Salvador and elsewhere w/o due process will be built05 May 2025 03:31 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lofgljkha22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lnxkiu77oc2yThe Guardian on the resurrection of FEMA's Future Climate Risk Index (now Future Risk Index), "the first free, localized resource showing how much climate change impacts will cost American communities." [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2025 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxkiu77oc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3llwyqhwk6c2jThe Columbia River Treaty, important for #flood control and #irrigation in the U.S. northwest, due for renewal, is on pause - parties are supposed to give 10-year advance notice if they plan to exit but I expect the current U.S. administration will try to just walk away, claim the terms are illegal [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Apr 2025 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3llwyqhwk6c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lktf5n2rrs2xAttention NorCal climate peeps! This looks like a great opportunity in Davis - full time Climate Action and Resilience Program Manager, deadline for applications April 11, focuses on both GHGs and natural resource protection https://greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/jobs/climate-action-and-resilience-program-manager/20 Mar 2025 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lktf5n2rrs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lkpm47q2nc2aTo read later I'm case you didn't see it @pennifer.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Mar 2025 06:56 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkpm47q2nc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lkh6tueot22iAt the Mahmoud Khalil rally at the DHS building in Sacramento today with my new sign "Dissent is Patriotic" - the other side of my sign says "Without Free Speech Democracy Dies"15 Mar 2025 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkh6tueot22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3ljq3r3hls22zI casually thought hm have we created a national #adaptation strategy yet? YES, it's 898 pages and it was launched by DOS... Jan. 10, 2025. So, yay? Talk about turning in your term paper at the last minute. At least it lives on the UNFCCC website so it won't disappear. https://2021-2025.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/u-s-national-adaptation-and-resilience-planning-strategy06 Mar 2025 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljq3r3hls22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3ljo5yter7c2gIs the National Climate Assessment dead? Is the USGCRP on the bone pile? The website is still up, but so is the NPS Climate Change Response Program's website. Not sure what to make of it.05 Mar 2025 23:45 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljo5yter7c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3ljiri7gi2c2iOn behalf of my gay male friends and anti-Putin Russian gay male friends in particular I would appreciate fewer homophobic Trump/Putin memes03 Mar 2025 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljiri7gi2c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lj7h4w367s2v"In the history of the universe"-! I love Judge Alsup, famous for having a very low tolerance for bullsh*t in his oversight of the PG&E bankruptcy proceeding [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Feb 2025 03:19 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj7h4w367s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lipsed3jbc2tAttn Sacramentans who use transit! Respond to the city's online survey by March 5 to share how storms, heat, or other extreme weather have impacted how you get around #Sacramento! This will help the city plan for climate change. I'll link the survey here & the city web page about it in the comments. https://www.surveyhero.com/c/sf9kbwf7?utm_medium=website&utm_source=city&utm_campaign=survey_121 Feb 2025 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lipsed3jbc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/stripeygirlcat.bsky.social/post/3lihzakml222nI think there might be a parallel organization emerging to do the work of #NATO minus the U.S. This article from last summer makes me think it might already exist in some form. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-germany-norway-nato-submarines-1.724056918 Feb 2025 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:klb3suc47rss4ddbpyexs2mm/app.bsky.feed.post/3lihzakml222n