Saving Land, From Hilltops to the Bay
For over 30 years, Lennie Roberts has been one of the Bay Area's leading voices for open space protection and against sprawl. Roberts has played a key role in many...
Conservation
LEJ’s SF EcoCenter Wins EPA Environmental Justice Award
Nestled deep in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood among a tallow rendering plant, a wastewater treatment facility, a concrete plant, and one of the state's largest Superfund sites, the EcoCenter...
Rebecca Solnit on Marin’s Mount Burdell
Mount Burdell Open Space Preserve in Novato. Trail: 3.4 mi, 610 ft elevation gain, loop
The Crazy Broom Lady of the Oakland Hills
Longtime television anchorwoman Wendy Tokuda now spends many days in the East Bay hills, finding endangered manzanitas and communing with pileated woodpeckers. All because of her obsession with an invasive...
Surrounded by Nature in San Francisco
Ever since an epiphany with pickleweed in Oakland as a kid, Asha Setty has wanted to learn as much as possible about native plants. She started working for the Golden...
San Jose a Trailblazer on Banning Single-Use Bags
Two weeks ago, Los Angeles supervisors voted to ban retailers from distributing single-use plastic bags in unincorporated parts of the county. Then on November 29, the governor argued for a...
West Oakland Group Wins Major Grant for New Urban Farm and Park
Last year, City Slicker Farms grew and distributed almost 7,000 pounds of pay-what-you-can produce in West Oakland. That number may double in coming years, thanks to a $4 million grant...
Getting Local Food at Your Local Park
People travel from around the world to visit the America's National Parks. They come for scenery, wildlife, human history. But rarely do they come for the food. Instead they usually...
“Wetlands Need All the Help They Can Get!”
In 1992, Amy Hutzel started as an intern at the nature center in Alviso, in the South Bay. Since then, she's been involved in the biggest wetlands restorations on the...
Book Review: A California Bestiary
A short, compelling series of essays and paintings of a dozen species of California wildlife from Rebecca Solnit and Mona Caron.
