{"id":282833,"date":"2026-04-23T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:38:08","slug":"how-are-you-doing-your-part-for-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282833\/","title":{"rendered":"How are you doing your part for the planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KPBS is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/environment\/2026\/04\/22\/south-county-pediatrician-reflects-on-7-years-as-dr-plastic-picker\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">exploring the small and large ways<\/a> residents, local governments, nonprofits and anyone else in San Diego and Imperial counties are working on solutions for protecting our communities from climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Solutions can look like anything from residents turning a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/environment\/2026\/03\/17\/how-paradise-hills-residents-turned-a-former-landfill-into-a-native-garden\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">landfill into a blooming native garden<\/a> to the Port of San Diego helping increase biodiversity in Chula Vista with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/environment\/2025\/11\/04\/can-the-ports-oyster-castles-protect-against-erosion-and-boost-biodiversity\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hundreds of oyster castles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How are you \u201cfighting for the community you love?\u201d Do you pick up trash? Take public transit? Tell us about how you are doing your part for the planet. You can also nominate someone.<\/p>\n<p>Enter your answers below or give us a call at (619) 452-0228 and leave a message. Leave your contact information if you\u2019re open to participating in a story about climate solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KPBS is exploring the small and large ways residents, local governments, nonprofits and anyone else in San Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-282833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-san-diego","9":"tag-san-diego-headlines","10":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}