
Premier night (Thursday) at the SF Green Film Festival is a film about the people who saved Marin’s coastline from development. (Interview)

Time for Wednesday’s Bay Area nature news digest.

Preservation Ranch is the biggest conservation deal in Sonoma County history, and it’s part of an even bigger deal. The key to the model? Carbon credits.

A plan for tree removal in the East Bay hills is open for public comment until June 17. We talk to a biologist, historian, gardener, land manager, and critic.

Many local beach goers in Sonoma County are reacting strongly against a proposal to make them pay to play in the sun.

Ever heard of California’s “Low Carbon Fuel Standard”? UC Berkeley prof Dan Kammen co-wrote it. What about the terms “cap and trade” and “carbon offsets”? Kammen helped popularize these concepts for the American public and transform the way we view energy consumption. As director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at the University of…