How an East Bay Water Agency is Experimenting with Mushrooms to Improve Water Quality
A pioneering experiment in the East Bay shows how mushrooms can reduce toxins or harmful microbes in the water supply
Category: Pollution
Berkeley Delays Plan to Exterminate Ground Squirrels
Water officials said they were concerned that ground squirrel tunnels were sending toxins into the San Francisco Bay.
The Man Who Sees the Trash
Richard James, who keeps the beaches of Point Reyes as litter-free as he can, has an obsessive eye for the discordant note of trash. His life as a park volunteer comes with a lesson: You learn strange things when you pick up after the world.
Point Molate Beach Park Opens After Long Closure
Point Molate Beach Park reopened at sunrise Monday morning after being closed for more than a decade due to budget woes.
San Jose considers banning styrofoam
San Jose is considering a ban on styrofoam that if successful would make it the largest city in the nation to nix the use of the non-biodegradable foamy plastic.
What, exactly, is in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
From the journal of Brian Kallen, who describes his journey through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Home for wayward plastic bottles
Are you a beach trash-collector? Meet Richard James, who's taken the chore to a whole new level and has a request to make of you.
“Global Frackdown” Rally in SF Focuses on Oil and Gas in California
The state is considering new regs on fracking, which could create a new oil boom in California, in a swathe stretching form the Bay Area to Los Angeles.
“Washed Ashore” Exhibit Turns Ocean Plastic into Monumental Sculptures
The 16 giant plastic sea creature sculptures on display at the Marine Mammal Center arose from artist Angela Pozzi's desire to find solace in the ocean: "I went to the ocean to look for healing, but I found that the ocean needed healing before it could heal me." Her new exhibit, Washed Ashore, is on display through October 15, 2011.
Restoring Aramburu Island
Aramburu Island sounds like it might be in the South Pacific, and until recently, it was about as noticed locally as some distant atoll. But then in 2007, in the wake of an oil spill, folks from Tiburon Audubon discovered that this humble island in Richardson Bay was a major refuge for injured birds. Now, they’re hoping to make it good habitat for healthy birds and other wildlife too.
