As San Jose mobilizes its resources to prepare for possible El Niño-driven winter flooding, a recent report is...
Golas: Community responsibility doesn’t stop at city limits
Thirty volunteers in bright blue vests cleared 4,000 pounds of dumping from a treasured creek in San Jose. Those numbers tell the story of Urban Compassion Project’s first cleanup in San Jose, but they don’t capture what made the experience so meaningful toward bringing UCP’s community-driven movement beyond Oakland and across the entire Bay Area. What stood out to me was the welcoming spirit of Mayor Matt Mahan, the Coyote Mudlarks and the San Jose Conservation Corps, and the willingness of our volunteers to show up for a city they didn’t call home. We rigged ropes down a steep and...
