Beginning Earth Day, Monday, some of the state’s leading voices on matters of climate policy, climate justice and the shaping of a green economy will participate in a week of events hosted by Climate One, a program of San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club.

Is California on track for an affordable and just transition away from fossil fuels? Where do we stand on the United Nations agreement for governments to designate 30 percent of their land and oceans as protected areas by 2030? How should we address the gender gap in green industries? These are some of the issues that will be unpacked through the week.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.