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What could the future look like?
California is successfully adapting to and mitigating climate change; our water ecosystems are healthy and supporting California’s diversity of wildlife and people; all Californians have access to clean, reliable, and affordable water and have reduced flood risk; and California agriculture is thriving and stewarding natural resources to feed the state and the nation.
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Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of California’s land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people.
Upcoming Event: El Niño, Explained with Dr. Daniel Swain – August 26th 2026
We’ll kick off Sustainable Conservation’s Fall 2026 Voices from the Field webinar series on August 26 with climate scientist Daniel Swain, PhD. He’ll explain the science and climate context behind this year’s El Niño, and we’ll explore broader climate variability, long-term warming patterns, and what this all could mean for California as communities prepare for future climate extremes.
Want to dive deeper? Explore our latest El Niño blog or revisit our previous conversations with Dr. Daniel Swain on California’s changing climate and extreme weather.
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Why is El Niño so Hard to Understand?
Declaring an El Niño has formed is a bit like announcing the first domino in a massive Rube Goldberg machine has tipped over. What happens next depends on dozens of interconnected steps, each capable of amplifying, redirecting, or dampening the chain reaction before it reaches California.
Sustainable Conservation at SF Climate Week: Watch Now!
Sustainable Conservation, Pacific Institute, and friends convened to hear how food companies, farmers, water managers, and communities are adapting to a more climate-resilient future using regenerative farming, watershed-scale planning, and multi-benefit land transition.
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