Summer 2024 Editor’s Letter: The Costs of Conservation
"A community that champions and identifies itself with the environment deserves a full picture of how conservation and homelessness can clash," writes editor-in-chief Victoria Schlesinger.
Environmental Justice
An Indigenous Garden Takes Root
A $900,000 EPA grant funds a Cafe Ohlone x California State University collaboration.
Hiking For Who You Want to See in Nature
Nick Collins is the leader of 510 Hikers, a weekly hiking group with a mission to diversify the outdoors.
Berkeley to Buy Ohlone Shellmound Site, Then Return it to Indigenous Land Trust
The city of Berkeley plans to purchase a Fourth Street parking lot and transfer the property to the nonprofit Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, as part of a recent settlement agreement over the...
Landscapes of Change, at SFMOMA
They're secret repositories of history, and places to contest exclusion, forgetting, and destruction.
Oakland’s Urban Tree Dreams Get (Partially) Funded
The city’s draft urban forest plan has drawn more than 800 comments—many clamoring for more native trees.
A River Runs Above Us
In mid-November 2021, a great storm begins brewing in the central Pacific Ocean north of Hawai‘i. Especially warm water, heated by the sun, steams off the sea surface and funnels...
Inside the East Oakland Plant Nursery That’s Breaking the Incarceration Cycle
“Nobody's got our kind of re-entry program that mixes soil, re-entry, healing, and good pay,” says Planting Justice's operations manager, Lynn Vidal.
As Cities Heat Up, USDA Grants $42 Million for Urban Trees Around the Bay
The money is meant to fix longstanding tree-cover gaps in disadvantaged neighborhoods—but it’s a fraction of what’s needed.
Oakland Offers a Plan to Aid Its Troubled, Unequal Tree Canopy
The plan—yet to be City-approved—calls for upward of $17 million in maintenance for Oakland's neglected trees.
