Any self-respecting environmentalist reeling off solutions to the climate crisis would include driving cleaner cars, planting more trees, eating less meat.

But how do our housing choices factor into this?

Welcome to Climate One, changing the conversation about energy, economy, and the environment.

Climate One conversations are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton.

I'm Claire Shone.

Music audience and hosted by Greg Dalton. I'm Claire Shone. If we can walk to the subway, we can drive our cars less.

So where we build housing and how close it is to mass transit has a big impact on our carbon footprint.

People are living in places where they have to drive everywhere, where they have to drive to work,

they have to drive to the store, where there's no other options for anyone,

whether you're poor, whether you're middle class, there's no option to get around other than driving.

And what we've done is we have just spiked carbon emissions as a result of our land use patterns.

That's Scott Weiner, California State Senator representing San Francisco Daily City and Colma.

Before going to Sacramento, he served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and several regional

transportation agencies.

Scott Weiner talked to our host, Greg Dalton, at a recent Climate One event.

According to Weiner, plans to green our cities should include new urban housing that's convenient to transportation.

But this runs the risk of boosting the real estate market and gentrifying the neighborhood out of the reach of all but the wealthy.

When we got the light rail, there was a lot of concerns around the speculation that was happening with land.

And what that would mean for a predominantly tenant community of immigrants, low income,

that didn't have high land ownership.

That's Issa LaGrasian.

She's president of the East L.A. Community Corporation,

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