Exploring Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former California Coastal Commissioner (from 2006-2013) Steve Blank will give the commencement speech at the UC Santa Cruz Rachel Carson College on June 15, with stories about what he calls when “truth and justice faced money and power.” An excerpt from the speech is below. This Q&A about the speech and…
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 resource. This implies that you and I both have equal access. … I had fished…
Bay Area lepidopterist Liam O’Brien spent the 2019 City Nature Challenge surveying the biodiversity of Mazatlan at the invitation of Mexican naturalists.
Rising, by Elizabeth Rush, is an elegant argument that it’s time to retreat from our shoreline.
Phragmatopoma californica breathes over its entire body, poops from near its mouth, and reproduces with other worms despite living inside a tube.
I moved to the Bay Area 20 years ago, and still feel a daily thrill at living in such a special place. Today, as I reflect on my new role as CEO of Greenbelt Alliance and the path that brought me here, I am struck by how lucky I am that I can make a…
Independent, nonprofit environmental journalism connecting people with nature in the San Francisco Bay Area.
