Emmanuel Alcantar

Feds plan to lease 1 million acres in California to oil, gas developers The federal government proposes allowing oil and gas drilling in the Golden State’s Pinnacles National Park, Mount Diablo State Park, Henry W. Coe State Park and Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve.

The Trump administration is planning 1 million acres of oil and gas leasing across southern and central California: www.courthousenews.com/feds-plan-to...

🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.

A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.

To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.

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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission

Four iPhone snapshots of oaks on hillsides, with their dark crooked boughs visible behind the tender new leaves and vivid green grass below.

So much horrific news. But also yesterday, the oaks were leafing out and the grass was maximum green. The Bay Area dresses up in drag as Ireland this time every year, and happy St. Patrick's to all you anticolonialists and arborists.

I have no choice but to stan.