Pesticide Database
Pollution in our air, food, and water continues to trouble many Bay Area residents looking to keep this urban area healthy. Several organizations help people take a more active role...
Category: Stewardship
The San Francisco Bay Area is bejeweled with hundreds of parks and open space preserves as well as a rich set of laws and policies meant to ensure the survival of vulnerable species and ecosystems. Real people made this happen through a dedicated call to stewardship.
Sky Valley-Cordelia Hills Open Space Project
Solano County faces powerful development pressures, perhaps more than any other Bay Area county. The Sky Valley-Cordelia Hills Open Space Project, a unique partnership between the nonprofit Solano Land Trust...
Tiburon Audubon Center
Tiburon Audubon Center & Sanctuary, comprising 11 acres of varied terrain and 900 acres of submerged mudflat and rocky beach, serves as an engaging outdoor classroom. Located at the northern...
Yosemite National Institutes
One way to foster the development of future environmental heroes is to expose young people to the wonders of the natural world. To that end, numerous organizations around the Bay...
Book Review: Cal Alive! Exploring Biodiversity
California Institute for Biodiversity, 2002 Professional Edition (3 CD-ROMs, classroom guide, poster), $250 Lite Edition (1 CD-ROM, no classroom guide), $50 To learn about the vast variety of life in...
Book Review: Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California
by the Rare Plant Scientific Advisory Committee; David P. Tibor, Convening Editor California Native Plant Society, 2001 388 pages, $29.95 According to the California Native Plant Society (CNPS), approximately 6,300...
Book Review: The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
by Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison Island Press, 2002 260 pages, $25 Hell hath no fury like a pent-up river. Or at least that’s what residents in the city...
Bioneers Conference
Thousands of activists, artists, citizens, scientists, and writers will come together this fall at the 13th annual Bioneers Conference, held at the Marin Center in San Rafael from October 18-20....
Brower Youth Awards
One of the most inspiring leaders of our time, David Brower, mentored four generations of future environmentalists throughout his distinguished career, showing us how to take meaningful action to combat...
Clean Water Act’s 30th Anniversary
The status of San Francisco Bay is of immense importance to our health and well-being. Keeping the Bay—and all other local waterways—clean remains a constant challenge, as more people come...
