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Innovators share what helped convince them to take climate action

As part of covering climate change we've heard from a number of the doers. Here are a few of those innovators and influencers' thoughts and what motivated them to make a change in their communities.

Black Nerds Expo 2023

Black Nerds Expo is a space for attendees to explore and celebrate Black comics, books, art, video games, pop culture, content creation, science, tech, engineering, and math (STEM) alongside like-minded individuals. This event is open to everyone! The first 100 attendees to register will be entered into opportunity drawing. Go to blacknerdsexpo.com. Follow on social media: Twitter + Instagram

Gender rights activists demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Many of the bans states passed this year against gender-affirming health care for youth are in federal court and may be on their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Can states' bans on transgender care hold up in court? We break down the arguments

The 20 gender-affirming care bans states have passed are undergoing intense legal scrutiny and testing federal courts in new ways, setting up battles that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The push for prefab housing

Some say prefabricated housing may be part of the solution in decreasing housing prices and increasing supply. And, San Diego’s Sanford Stem Cell Institute has rocketed stem cells into space a third time -- hoping to learn more about how human cells age. Then, John Waters returns to San Diego for his new Christmas show.

'Love Letters' by Divergence Art Collective

Divergence is a new Art Collective, based out of San Diego county. Check out some of the top notch artists San Diego has to offer with their newest themed artworks at the very first group show, held at Distinction Gallery! Some of the artists in the collective include: ‣ Viralboa ‣ Mia Savage ‣ Megan Darrough ‣ Hoss Cruz ‣ Olga Tenyakova and more! Follow on Social Media! Instagram + Facebook

A photo of the exterior of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. © Anne Frank House / Photographer: Cris Toala Olivares

Former San Diego neo-Nazi extradited to Amsterdam after Anne Frank House incident

Robert Wilson, a 41-year-old former Chula Vista resident, is facing hate speech charges tied to an antisemitic incident in the Netherlands.

'Generational Black Pioneers' featuring Oceanside Entrepreneurs

Interactive multi-media explorations celebrating black entrepreneurs in Oceanside. These non-fictional narratives dramatize the stories of Biddy Mason, Charles and Anna Tapsico and other Oceanside residents through creative theatre pieces. Get tickets: https://oceansidetheatre.vbotickets.com/events Oceanside Theatre Company on Facebook / Instagram

Aerial photograph of flood, unidentified stretch of lower Mississippi River. 1927. Inundated farm; only buildings and a few trees and small sections of fields are visible above the water.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Fatal Flood

Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Wednesday, Aug. 30 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded from New Orleans to Illinois, leaving a million people homeless and leading to a major Black migration to the North.

The San Diego Union-Tribune building in downtown San Diego, Calif. June 19, 2021.

San Diego Union-Tribune editor announces he is leaving newspaper

Jeff Light, the editor and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune, has announced he is leaving the newspaper after 13 years.

Carlos Moreno, a Franco-Colombian urbanist, has been helping spread the idea of 15-minute cities — where people can access key things in their life within a short walk, bike ride or transit ride of their home. But the climate solution is seeing huge challenges, including conspiracy theories.

It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs

The "15-minute city" is an urban planning concept that aims to increase quality of life and reduce planet-heating pollution. But it faces obstacles, including conspiracy theories.

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