Tonight's event features @markos as our moderator, with @CoolClimateNw director Chris Jones, @TransForm_Alert Board Member Barnali Ghosh, Sen @NancySkinnerCA, and Asm @BuffyWicks. #NowSaveTheWorld

. @CoolClimateNw has a carbon calculator- at http://www.coolclimate.org  - that considers both direct & indirect emissions.

Those emissions vary spatially - professors in the hills drive & buy much more than students in downtown. This plays out across the metro scale. #NowSaveTheWorld

At https://coolclimate.org/scenarios , you can see the different modeled scenarios, and associated emission reduction potential from the impacts of local policies.

In Sacramento, housing electrification is #1 opportunity for emission reduction. In Berkeley? Urban infill. #NowSaveTheWorld

Now hearing from Barnali Ghosh on her work as a transit, cyclist, & pedestrian advocate on the board of @TransForm_Alert, @WalkBikeBerk, and a member of the Berkeley Transportation Commission.

"Why are our streets unsafe? If you read the @Berkeleyside comments section, you might think it's those pesky pedestrians - distracted, jaywalking, stepping off the curb, looking at their phones…"

"In fact, 72% of pedestrians who were struck by a driver in Berkeley were actually walking in a marked crosswalk.

Knowing it's pedestrians in crosswalks that are getting hit & killed, it's…" not the pedestrian's fault, let's put it that way. #NowSaveTheWorld

"Designing streets to minimize collisions, educating drivers… and prioritizing investments in traditionally underserved areas.

In Berkeley, on average, 2 people die and 21 people sustain severe injuries on our streets. These are our neighbors, our friends, our kids."

"Berkeley's developing an action plan for safe streets - Vision Zero. The goal is zero traffic deaths by 2028.

Traffic deaths are preventable, not inevitable. Humans are fallible, and drivers make predictable mistakes. Saving lives is not expensive, compared to the alternative.

"For decades, streets were designed to move cars as quickly as possible, but continuing in this way has a human cost. At 20mph, 9/10 pedestrians survive. But at 30mph, it's a 50/50 chance, and at 40mph, only 1 in 10 survive…"

Speed kills.

Fast, efficient, and high-quality transit, biking, and walking gets cars off the road, reducing risk & saving lives (not to mention reducing GHGs)

All of this takes political will - which means grassroots organizing. @TransForm_Alert and @WalkBikeBerk are leaders in this area.