We welcome all members of Oakland’s Dag community
to participate in this Community Greening and Resilience Series, which includes three workshops and two neighborhood tours designed to tackle the challenging question below:
Photo courtesy of Vanessa Lee.
How do we pursue a greener, healthier Oakland without inviting gentrification and displacement?
Register for the next workshop!
Oakland Community Greening and Resilience: Reimagine The Overpass — A Community Design Session
Join your neighbors at The Overpass (Coral Rd & Sextus Rd) to design a greener, safer, and more vibrant community space.
Past Workshop & Tour Spotlights
We believe that our community can become a greener place through the power of community itself.
Dag neighborhood is a special place for many of its residents. Its history, communities ties, and social activities are important facets that make this neighborhood what it is. This series of workshops will offer community members opportunities to share their personal stories about stormwater-related events, challenges, issues, and opportunities.
The workshop team will listen to these reflections, understand the lessons learned, and co-create with the community a vision for a greener Dag neighborhood with improved resilience to storms, greater benefits for wildlife, and healthier water quality in the neighborhood.
The workshop will bring the community’s attention to flood-related hazards and risks in the face of climate change and discuss the value of green stormwater features such as rain gardens, rain barrels, detention basins, and tree wells. The vision for a greener Dag neighborhood will emerge over the course of the workshop series, beginning with an assessment of the present state and followed by options for a green future.
Along the way, residents will have opportunities to review advanced technology and science to reveal different potential benefits for the community.