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For years, California, Florida, Oregon, Washington, and other states have relied on incarcerated men and women to fight wildfires.

For years California, Florida, Oregon, Washington, and other states have relied on prisoners to fight wildfires. These men and women are trained to perform grueling work while earning just a few dollars, sometimes as little as $2 a day.

Hyfi, the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, and Coral Vita share in the spoils of prize aimed at scaling solutions to reduce risks posed to communities from climate impacts

Tree-Plenish mentors students through a step-by-step process leading up to their own tree-planting event, including how to calculate their schools’ paper usage. To reach their goal of planting 295 saplings, students at O’Dowd and Tech are reaching out to residents to order the saplings and allow volunteers to plant the saplings in the residents’ yards on March 26. | By Ava Stern and Mary Lee Two local schools are taking up a cause that will help make Oakland greener. In partnership with Tree-Plenish, over 450 schools, including Bishop O’Dowd and Oakland Tech, began work last month to h...

At GreenBiz 22, innovators who are (literally) on the front lines of the fight against climate change received recognition and funding.