While we must stop adding greenhouse gases to the global atmosphere, conservation and green technologies can no longer completely halt the impact of climate change on people, wildlife, and the lands and waters we depend on. Adapting to climate change is also necessary. This story is about creative solutions to deal with sea level rise for cities at the waters’ edge. This story is part of a media series called RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities by Claire Schoen Media. To see videos of all the stories in the RISE series, please visit: www.searise.org/webstories. 

Michele Anderson is an East Coast transplant (Yale, BA, English) who has lived in the Bay Area since, roughly, Gov. Jerry Brown’s first stint as California’s governor. She is a happily retired lawyer (UC Berkeley, JD) and an inveterate news hack (spent many years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she migrated from Food to News). She has been with the San Francisco Public Press as the Partnerships guru since 2011.