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Tag: UC Santa Cruz
Perspective
Tech Entrepreneur-Turned-Environmentalist’s Commencement Speech: Truth and Justice, Money and Power
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 … Read more
Fall Issue 2018
Not Just a Pretty Face — the Banana Slug is One of the Weirdest Animals On Earth
The banana slugs: a fascinating group from an evolutionary standpoint, and a very very unusual one from a human viewpoint.
Fall Issue 2016
A Ghost Bird Visits Santa Cruz
A leucistic hummingbird spent the summer at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum.
History, Stewardship
New Paradigms for Stewardship
In 2005, the tribal elders of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band came to Tribal Chairman Valentin Lopez and reminded him that California Indians have a responsibility to steward Creation. Lopez agreed with them, but he had a big problem: no … Read more
Fall Issue 2008
Book Review: The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus (Second Edition)
The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus (Second Edition), edited by Tonya M. Haff, Martha T. Brown, and W. Breck Tyler. Bay Tree Bookstore, 2008, 361 pages, $12.95 “UC Santa Cruz may be the best campus in the … Read more
