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The RISE Project
by Claire Schoen
Powerful, personal storytelling of how sea level rise and extreme weather affects people living by the water.
Episodes
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Podcast 1: Swamped
"We are headed right now on a path to an ice-free planet. And once we are there this planet will look nothing like it does today, and the human infrastructure that we all depend upon will not be able to adapt to those kinds of changes." --Dr. Healy Hamilton Sea level rise is an effect of global...
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Podcast 2: Stemming the Tide
Conservation and green technologies can no longer keep climate change from impacting people. Wildlife. The lands and waters our lives and economies depend upon. Adapting to climate change is necessary. This story is about creative solutions to address sea level rise for cities at the waters’ edge.
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Podcast 3: Levees & Legacies
"ALL LEVEES FAIL. Okay? Flood control maybe the ultimate oxymoron. The moron's oxymoron." --Dr. Jeff Mount Steve Mello farms an island in the Delta, where waters of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers merge before flowing through San Francisco Bay. His long-farmed land lies below sea level....
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Podcast 4: Ill Tidings
"Areas like Foster City, which are low-lying, will be extraordinarily expensive to protect. It will be extraordinarily difficult to abandon it. It will be extraordinarily difficult to do most anything else about it." --Will Travis T. Jack Foster Jr and his father created Foster City, a community…
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Podcast 5: Saving Alviso
Chuey Cazares has lived all of his 21 years in Alviso, a tiny hamlet poking into the salt ponds at the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Alviso sits below sea level. Flooding from the creeks above and the Bay below threaten to fill up the bowl. There are plans to save Alviso, but adapting to...
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Podcast 6: Bay Splendor
"You've got saltwater coming from the sea, fresh water coming from the land, and all mixing in the Bay. It's like a giant cocktail shaker with a nice salty drink and God is the mixologist." --Paul McHugh San Francisco Bay is actually an estuary—the largest estuary on the Pacific coast of the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Powerful, personal storytelling of how sea level rise and extreme weather affects people living by the water.
HOSTED BY
Claire Schoen
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Powerful, personal storytelling of how sea level rise and extreme weather affects people living by the water.
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The RISE Project is created and hosted by Claire Schoen.
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