Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson
Riverside is helping families stay cooler and lower their energy bills while preparing for a changing climate. A $31.2 million grant through California’s Transformative Climate Communities Program is helping transform the Eastside neighborhood, where residents have planted more than 1,000 trees with partner TreePeople and GRID Alternatives Inland Empire is installing rooftop solar on 100 homes. More than $1 million in federal funding is also paying for a GIS inventory of the city’s urban forest that will identify urban heat islands.