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Dear Reader

A note from Ecology Center Executive Director Martin Bourque.

By Staff Reporter

Spring 2010 | No Comments »

Essential Reads

By Lisa Owens Viani and Gina Covina

By Staff Reporter

Spring 2010 | No Comments »

Essential Reads

The Contributions of Ruby and Arthur Van Deventer With an essay by David Rains Wallace Edited by Rick Bennett and Susan Calla Heyday Books (2009), $35. When California’s leading botanist Willis Linn Jepson met Ruby Van Deventer in 1936, the wild and practically roadless northwest corner of the state presented the most conspicuous gap in [...]

By Staff Reporter

Winter 2009 | No Comments »

Ask the Eco Team

Mulch the right way; living near power lines

By Staff Reporter

Fall 2009 | No Comments »

Essential Reads

New books on birding, eco-entrepreneurship, and the future of sustainabilty

By Staff Reporter

Fall 2009 | No Comments »

Window on the Ecology Center

Farm Fresh Choice Youth head back east.

By Staff Reporter

Fall 2009 | No Comments »

Letters to the Editor

Regarding: Sea-Combers, Summer 2009

By Staff Reporter

Summer 2009 | No Comments »

Letters to the Editor

Regarding: The Long Thirst, Spring 2009

By Staff Reporter

Spring 2009 | No Comments »

Letters to the Editor

Regarding: Cutting the Grassroots, Fall/Winter 2008

By Staff Reporter

Fall/Winter 2008 | No Comments »

Shell Seeks Vallejo Foothold For Overseas Gas

A proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Mare Island in San Pablo Bay would pose major health and safety threats while increasing California’s vulnerability to the natural gas market, say energy consultants.

By Staff Reporter

Winter 2002 | No Comments »

Stockton’s Water “Not for Auction”

Residents of Stockton, California, have demanded the right to vote on a multimillion-dollar proposal to contract out operation of the city’s water system in what would be the largest water privatization on the West Coast.

By Staff Reporter

Winter 2002 | No Comments »

Hope for Renewables

A groundbreaking California law requires all investor-owned utilities to increase their renewable energy use by 1% per year, eventually to 20%.

By Staff Reporter

Winter 2002 | No Comments »

Medicine Lake

The US Department of the Interior is set to decide by November 1 whether to reverse a Clinton-era denial of geothermal development in the Medicine Lake Highlands, a caldera sacred to the Modoc, Shasta, Pit River and other Native American tribes.

By Staff Reporter

Winter 2002 | No Comments »

Urban Ag Showdown

Student activists say they are ready to apply “political pressure,” including civil disobedience, to stop the University of California Berkeley from paving over Albany’s Gill Tract, the largest piece of undeveloped agricultural land in the urban San Francisco Bay Area.

By Staff Reporter

Winter 2002 | No Comments »

Big-Picture Choices

Is an ice cube tray with round holes more energy efficient than one with rectangular holes?

By Staff Reporter

Winter 2002 | No Comments »

Winter on the Farm

In winter, our farmers take a breath, pick and sell in the rain, organize boxes, prune, weed, fix the plows — and plan and plant for spring, summer, and sometimes years ahead.

By Staff Reporter

Winter 2002 | No Comments »

The Dirt on Biodiesel; Informative, Rousing

The Dirt on Biodiesel Daniel Duart’s article [“Liquid Solar,” Summer 2002] on the use of biodiesel crops raises a question about fuel cycles, or chains. Because soil loss has been a major problem in North America for over 100 years, the real prospects for practical large-scale bio-fuels cycles will be limited. Take, for example, the [...]

By Staff Reporter

Fall 2002 | No Comments »

Only Who Can Prevent Forest Fires?

If you believe what the US Forest Service interrogators first said, Terry Lynn Barton started this summer’s big fire in Colorado’s Pike National Forest by burning a letter from her estranged husband.

By Staff Reporter

Fall 2002 | No Comments »

County May Pay $20 Million for Timberland

The Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC), owned by the Fisher family that owns the Gap clothing chain, has obtained little-known development rights that boost the price of over 3,000 acres of timberland sought by Sonoma County for open space, Terrain has learned.

By Staff Reporter

Fall 2002 | No Comments »

Plan to Bag Gualala, Albion Rivers Could Exploit Free Trade Laws

Luxembourg-based World Water SA has become the first multinational to seek water rights to northern California rivers, setting up a key test of local sovereignty in the face of international trade agreements, say public interest advocates.

By Staff Reporter

Fall 2002 | No Comments »

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