Near Coasts, Rising Seas Could Also Push Up Long-Buried Toxic Contamination
By Laura Klivans
February 8, 2021
Marquita Price grew up spending lots of time at her grandmother’s one-story lavender house in Deep East Oakland. It’s a place she’s always considered home, and where her grandmother still lives. So Price, an urban planner, was upset to learn about a lesser-known aspect of climate change fueled by sea level rise: it could cause the groundwater beneath this formerly-industrial community to rise, and wreak slow-motion havoc in the process.
“How is that going to affect my family?” Price thought. “And my community and the assets that we worked so hard to hold?”
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Marquita Price outside her grandmother s house in East Oakland. She worries that contaminated rising groundwater threatens the health of her family and their assets. Laura Klivans/KQED
Marquita Price grew up spending lots of time at her grandmother s one-story lavender house in Deep East Oakland. It s a place she s always considered home, and where her grandmother still lives. So Price, an urban planner, was upset to learn about a lesser-known aspect of climate change fueled by sea level rise: it could cause the groundwater beneath this formerly-industrial community to rise, and wreak slow-motion havoc in the process.
UC Berkeley professor Ronald Rael wins award for border wall project
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A project known as the Teeter-Totter Wall was designed by UC Berkeley professor Ronald Rael in collaboration with Omar Rios of Colectivo Chopeke, a Mexico-based art collective, and architect Virginia San Fratello. The project was temporarily installed within the U.S.-Mexican border wall and won the 2020 Beazley Design of the Year.
To unite children from both sides of the border wall, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design professor Ronald Rael designed an art project that turned the wall into a play area, which was awarded best design of 2020.
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