The River Project

The River Project is a non-profit organization working to protect and restore the ecosystem of the Los Angeles River Watershed for a climate-resilient future.

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

We can’t prevent natural disasters. But if we prepare now, we can control how they impact our lives. By capturing rainwater, managing runoff, making room for our rivers, and restoring ecological function throughout our watersheds, we can get on the path to a sustainable future.

[Melanie Winter @wuddaworld]

Talked with @XRebellionLA on @KPFK yesterday about reclaiming floodplains, urban acupuncture, and how crucial a healthy Los Angeles River system is to our climate resilient future. https://t.co/ZdyKCCTlAC

[Melanie Winter @wuddaworld]

“Even as the city’s Bureau of Engineering and The River Project pursue two separate visions of the Sepulveda Basin, city officials are planning for the 2028 Olympics”https://t.co/Y8GW8eHmjL

[LANCSA @LA_NCSA]

Join us for a conversation about the potential of the Sepulveda Basin as a model of nature-based solutions to our #water and #habitat problems! #biodiversity @CD6LACity #LARiver https://t.co/BcsNFxC1wc

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

"We emerge from drought when we restore floodplains...to restore depleted aquifers...limit waste, update our laws...and take other steps to reorient ourselves and society to fir the new way Mother Nature sends us water." https://t.co/bgGS2B9GTA

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Every house and yard in Southern California should be outfitted with rainwater harvesting tools because of the potential water savings, says Melanie Winter, founder and director of the River Project. https://t.co/JKFSlRKVqU

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

*the* future, obv. Sigh.

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

Here's a different roadmap for there future of the Los Angeles River. https://t.co/tmAvZu0C09

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

The Executive Summary for our soon-to-be-released "Feasibility Study for Restoration of the Los Angeles River & Tributaries in the Sepulveda Basin" (phew) is live. #EngineeringWithNature #Multisolving
Check it out here: https://t.co/tmAvZu0C09

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

Check out this piece in today's @CalMatters about our latest climate-adaptive, nature-based work in Sepulveda Basin. #multisolving #30x30
Big thanks to @SFValleyClimate https://t.co/ms4Mmx1y3b

[Streets For All @streetsforall]

Announcing Healthy Streets LA, a ballot measure mandating that @LACity implement its own Mobility Plan when repaving streets. Despite @LACityCouncil passing the plan in 2015, only 3% has been implemented (in 7 years!) It's time for a paradigm shift. https://t.co/B5tE6jYKmn

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[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

It's past time for FEMA to account for climate change in their mapping and policies. Communities deserve accurate and transparent risk information. #FloodFEMA #FixFlooding

[Erica Gies / SlowWater.World @egies]

Imagine a Los Angeles that captured its own rain as a first step against floods and water scarcity. Activist @wuddaworld has a great thread here on what that could look like.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Almost none of our debate acknowledges how inevitably disruptive the climate emergency (and the need to respond to it) has become to human systems we still think of as "too big to change."

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

"By the year 2050...many places around the world, including in the U.S., are going to experience the historical once in a hundred year flood level once a year or more frequently...Places like Los Angeles..."

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“Places like Los Angeles, San Diego, Key West, Miami, Jacksonville, Savannah, Honolulu” are all at risk of severe floods as a result of climate change, says geosciences professor Michael Oppenheimer. https://t.co/LHpWp6PRg1

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

“Imagine dense but livable cities veined with public transit and leafy parks… humming away to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere… species recovering and rewilding the world, the rivers silver with fish, the skies musical with flocking birds.” https://t.co/6jZA2ug17S

[Robert D. Bullard @DrBobBullard]

What Will Another Decade of Climate Crisis Bring? https://t.co/mw9aRI1tWW via @NewYorker

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

👇Up next: floodplains and coastal property

[Glen Dake @GlenDake]

California homebuyers are backing out of deals or cutting offers as prices of insurance policies jump. “We’re just going to get a bunch of houses sitting on the market that won’t sell,” one agent says. https://t.co/Em7vSLQ2ym

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

It's 2020 & its time to change the way we think about disposables! AB No. 619 is the new CA statewide law that allows food vendors to serve customers in reusable containers & lets the public bring reusable containers to restaurants for take-out. ♻️🍱

[American Rivers @americanrivers]

“The U.S. learned nearly a century ago that "levees only" is a failed path.”

The safest way forward, for people and the environment, is to give rivers room. @sciam https://t.co/tT1VMKCDVn

[The River Project @RiverProjectLA]

What was different about 2019 was the response to climate change. More people started clamoring for a Green New Deal, Democratic presidential candidates began talking fluently about the crisis & young climate activists took to the streets to demand action! https://t.co/DlBM5nNhlH