Can Silicon Valley save the Bay Area?

2015-11-17T19:09:00-05:00

The subject of a thousand think pieces and endless dinner table conversations, the considerable changes unleashed on the Bay Area by the tech industry over the past few decades are pretty undeniable. An influx of money – and its attendant culture – has remade San Francisco and the valley to its south largely in its own image, and has touched just about every other city in the Bay in some way.

But even bigger changes for the Bay Area are on the horizon, as is made clear in a new "interactive documentary" entitled The Water at Bay. Comprising a map, videos, and text, the website highlights the risks posed to region by rising sea levels, and waCs created in part by a coalition of Silicon Valley business leaders.

Can the same forces blamed for ruining the Bay Area now come to its rescue?

In order to educate local people about the dangers and challenges posed by rising sea levels, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group teamed up with the Bay Area Council and Save the Bay under the banner Our B...

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Can Silicon Valley save the Bay Area?