Category: Resiliency

Sponsor the Fillmore Holiday Night Market – December 20, 2024

Fillmore Holiday Night Market – Friday December 20, 2024 In the 1950s hundreds of black-owned businesses made the Historic Fillmore a vibrant, multicultural community with one of the most prominent jazz scenes on the West Coast. Urban redevelopment in the ’70s pushed many businesses out, but today community entrepreneurs, neighbors and activists are hard at…

Restaurant Owner Inspires Recovery in the Bayview: Meet April Spears

“Grilled oysters and Louisiana gumbo, that’s what everyone’s been asking for,” explained April Spears as she served yet another order of her famed dish at the reopening of Cafe Envy in the Bayview on June 13. “I saw that our restaurants around here already serve a lot of heavier soul food and fried food, so…

Loma Prieta: The Earthquake That Started a Transportation Revolution

At 5:04 pm on October 17, 1989, deep under the Santa Cruz Mountains, a 25-mile section San Andreas fault ruptured. Powerful shockwaves rippled…

Creating Resilience: How Block Parties Can Prepare Us for Disaster

A growing body of research suggests that blowing bubbles and having a potluck with your neighbors might be the most effective way to survive a disaster.

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