Book Review: Introduction to California’s Beaches and Coast
Chances are you've sat on the beach and pondered where the sand goes when the waves carry it off, or maybe what the California coast looked like a million years...
Author Archives: Melanie Jones
Photographer and writer Melanie Jones lives in Oakland and enjoys coffee, books, urban gardening, and cool, foggy mornings.
Book Review: The Place that Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed
This far-reaching anthology of poems is a lovely collection that speaks to what it is to be natural in the Bay Area.
Park(ing) Day Highlights Need for Urban Green Space
Parking spaces are precious commodities in downtown San Francisco and San Jose, but this Friday dozens of groups will be using these spots not to park but as parks. Artists...
Don’t Miss the Summertime Blues!
This summer has been a great year for whale watching in Monterey Bay. The giant blues showed up early and have stuck around, making for daily sightings of these amazing...
Artist Plants Comics at UC Botanical Garden
For the The University of California Botanical Garden in the Berkeley Hills is home to one of the nation's largest collections of plant life. It houses many rare and endangered...
The Sounds of the Sea, Performed
A team of artists has collected more than 1,000 recordings of people sharing their thoughts about the oceans. Hear voices from from scientists and schoolchildren, people in the United States,...
