Urban restoration work spans creeks, trees, tech access, and renaming

Evidence

Friends of Sausal Creek (FOSC), a group of Oakland neighbors formed in 1996 to restore Sausal Creek, daylighted a section of the creek from beneath a concrete culvert and replanted native species. A UC Berkeley class collaborated with Urban Releaf to grow seventy-two coast live oak trees to donate to neighborhoods in West and East Oakland. Ospreys arrived and began building nests on a former naval site in Richmond. Chris Carlsson, local historian extraordinaire and author of the book Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-Lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today!, continued to give bike tours of the ecological and labor histories of San Francisco. Sudo Mesh, the group responsible for the Oakland mesh network, upcycled donated laptops to youth and activists who couldn’t afford them. Stanford removed the name of the Catholic priest Junípero Serra from its entrance campus buildings, citing his role in the enslavement and genocide of indigenous tribes in nineteenth-century California. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 659

Categorization

• DEFINE: These concrete cases are what Odell means by manifest dismantling — the list itself becomes the definition.
• XREF: connects to: Ecological restoration is an artistic practice requiring artistic sensibility — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1077; Sensitive historic reconstruction can revive a city without displacing residents — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and…, 297; Restoration requires thinking like the whole ecosystem, not just the target species — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1072 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ecological restoration is an artistic practice requiring artistic sensibility — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1077; Sensitive historic reconstruction can revive a city without displacing residents — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and…, 297; Restoration requires thinking like the whole ecosystem, not just the target species — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1072 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Ecological restoration is an artistic practice requiring artistic sensibility #complicates (0.72) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1077