Parks as sanctuaries and refuges in times of crisis.
To Close Or Not to Close? That is the Question!
March 26, 2020 •
Policy
Can California Reverse Biodiversity Decline?
March 24, 2020 •
At a time when development is paving over habitat and climate change is transforming ecosystems at an unprecedented pace, California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot says the state has a moral imperative to focus on biodiversity.
Live Biodiversity
March 24, 2020 •
There’s a certain predictable expression that frequently settles on the face of the friend or family member I’m talking to when I say the word “biodiversity.” I’d call it tolerantly bored.
Open Space Park or Hotel? The Future of the Burlingame Shoreline Could Set a Precedent for Climate Adaptation
September 3, 2019 •
For perhaps the first time in 80 years the California State Lands Commission, which negotiates and hands out leases for state-owned shoreline property, faced a decision this summer between competing ideas for the same parcel. The commission staff announced at … Read more
A New Plan for Saving the Bay’s Recently Thriving Herring
August 27, 2019 •
As recently as five years ago, it was great to be a herring in the San Francisco Bay. Populations of the small silver fish had declined up and down the West Coast but boomed in the Bay at levels not … Read more
California and the Bay Area Have More Environmental Work to Do
August 8, 2019 •
Here in the Bay Area, we pride ourselves on being environmental trailblazers. Our achievements include pioneering curbside recycling, prohibiting the use of ozone-depleting Styrofoam, and leading the effort to ban plastic bags, straws, and utensils. California, likewise, has long been … Read more
A Time of Reckoning in the Central Valley
June 23, 2019 •
Climate change is upending agriculture and land use in California’s Central Valley
A New Chapter in the Fight for Point Molate
June 23, 2019 •
Last March, Richmond officials announced that they’d chosen SunCal to develop a housing and renovation project on Point Molate, a small headland just north of the Richmond Bridge. The project has vocal opponents who, among other concerns, worry over the … Read more
How People Saved the Seabirds of the California Current
June 14, 2019 •
It wasn’t until the federal government took away several of my favorite fisheries, and access to my favorite spots, that I fully comprehended what I had previously taken for granted … The ocean is, or was once, a public trust … Read more
Climate Solutions Already Exist in Nature, a Reminder
May 28, 2019 •
California wants to go carbon negative. But even policymakers tend to overlook the best way to get there.