Tinctures for Treatment: Homegrown Medicine from PLACE for Sustainable Living
NorCal Resilience Network is launching a crowdfunder campaign in the coming few days. Stay tuned to donate to our campaign, which will provide direct support to BIPOC-led, on-the-ground resilience projects. Read below to learn about a previous project that we have...
Breaking Ground: NorCal Resilience Lends its Support to a Vibrant Community Garden at the Dream Youth Clinic
Photographs by David Monical NorCal Resilience Network is launching a crowdfunder campaign in the coming few days. Stay tuned to donate to our campaign, which will provide direct support to BIPOC-led, on-the-ground projects. This article illustrates an inspiring...
Coronavirus Preparedness and Collective Resilience
As the threat of coronavirus increases in Northern California, so does the stress and fear we are feeling in our communities. However, it is more important than ever that we support one another both to prepare, and to stay calm, connected and resilient amidst these...
Mobilize Berkeley brings the community together to heal
An unlikely group of organizations, brought together through a UC Berkeley Chancellors Fund grant, organized a beautiful event on December 11th that reaffirmed the need for community members to come together and talk about climate grief and solutions. The NorCal...
Resilience Hubs Kickoff Party
What do an community garden, youth-led health clinic, library and community center have in common? They are all part of the Resilience Hubs Initiative, building a network of neighborhoods, libraries, community gardens and neighborhood centers that are model sites for...
Paradise Rises from the Ashes
Over 100 volunteers came out on a sunny spring weekend to support a school almost lost to one of the biggest fires in California history. Read their story below. “I think one of our greatest mistakes is seeing ourselves separate from nature and that nature is...
Oakland SOL and Leo Orleans
I caught up with farmer Leo Orleans at their 6-person collective residential and community space called Oakland SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally) in the San Antonio neighborhood of Oakland. The collective is home to Queer and Trans People of Color who run arts...
Engineers for a Sustainable World
On a beautiful April day in South Berkeley, I instantly relax as I step into the lush urban paradise of Ashby Garden. It’s a busy work party day and volunteers are peppered throughout this fecund haven with it’s emerald Spring leaves bursting from the ground and the...