Research
Water & Working Lands
We need to reshape our relationships with land– water systems, forests, and fields. By making connections between rural and urban communities clear, we develop policies that foster solidarity between communities that are often treated as fundamentally different and disconnected. Our work in this area ranges from high roads economic development in wildfire territory to equitable responses to climate disaster.
Featured Research
Achieving Water Justice in California
California’s water rights system is rooted in land theft and racism. It facilitates unjust and unsustainable outcomes that threaten the well-being and survival of people, agriculture, …
Water & Working Lands
Seize the Future
The polycrisis is wreaking economic insecurity, mass death and genocide, climate disasters, and other kinds of instability on working people worldwide. Winning durable change requires a …
Global Systems & Policy
It’s time to usher in a new era of water management in California
Hundreds of dams dot California’s riverways. Thousands of miles of canals crisscross the state, bringing water from distant reservoirs to desert urban centers. As the climate …
Water & Working Lands
Achieving Water Justice in California (Executive Summary pre-release)
California’s water rights system is rooted in land theft and racism. It facilitates unjust and unsustainable outcomes that threaten the wellbeing, and in some cases the …
Water & Working Lands
The Reforestation Trust Fund: Building capacity for transformative Forest Service spending
In November of 2021 Congress passed the REPLANT Act to remove a 30 million dollar funding cap on the Reforestation Trust Fund (RTF), a primary funding …
Water & Working Lands
Just Disaster Response
The 2022 hurricane season exposes the trend of increasing extreme weather due to the climate crisis. Scientists cataloged six named storms, four hurricanes and two major …
Water & Working Lands
High Roads to Resilience
California wildfires are emblematic of the climate crisis and a harbinger of a dangerous future. The stakes could not be higher for communities across California, and …
Water & Working Lands
