ON TUESDAY, San Francisco District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder will introduce a resolution urging city leaders to explore funding opportunities for a Green Bank — a public, nonprofit financial institution designed to accelerate investment in clean energy and affordable housing. 

Unlike grant programs, green banks are public banks that use financing, meaning capital is expected to be repaid, allowing each dollar to be deployed repeatedly, according to the nonprofit Coalition for Green Capital, which focuses on accelerating the clean energy transition.

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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.