Environment
Looking out for your neighbor isn’t just about pushing aside a dusty curtain and peering across the street to see if everything is okay. For Richmond’s North and East neighborhood patrol, community safety means going outside their neighbor’s homes, hitting the pavement and talking to people.
If you brushed your teeth, took a shower and flushed the toilet this morning, you may not have thought much about what happened after it went down the drain. But a coalition of Bay Area agencies has been working for years to find innovative methods to convert that waste into something of value.
Kaiser Permanente wants to HEAL Richmond. Not with expensive medicine or shiny surgical knives, but with good old-fashioned Healthy Eating Active Living, or HEAL Zones, the acronym chosen for a program that will help residents fight obesity through education. The program also includes a small business action plan that will encourage local businesses to promote responsible food and exercise choices. The three-year $10 million HEAL Zones’ initiative is a continuation of Kaiser Permanente’s 2006 Healthy Eating Active Living Community Health…
From the corner of Filbert Street and Chesley Avenue, the unofficial center of North Richmond, a person gets the full sensory onslaught that the community has endured for decades.
“Dog park” sort of misses the mark when describing the Point Isabel Regional Shoreline. This is no fenced off stretch of dirt. Point Isabel is the largest public off-leash dog park in the country with roughly half a million dog visits each year.
About 50 residents, Gompers High School students and local leaders gathered Thursday to mark the restoration of the Gompers Garden Mural, a massive swath of color and life that has imprinted a lush, vibrant jungle environment on a concrete wall.
South African environmental activist Desmond D’Sa also took a “toxic tour” of Richmond’s challenges after Monday’s protest.
Councilman Tom Butt and other Richmond leaders want to ban plastic bags in retail and grocery stores, with or without the support of neighboring cities.
In July the city will approve a new general plan, a huge policy document that will shape the future of the city for the next couple decades. The draft plan adds a unique element to the plan that focuses city policy on efforts to improve the health of Richmond residents, putting the city at the forefront of combining city policy and public health.