Northern California’s Environmental Magazine
Winter 2009
Table of Contents
Neighborhood Watch for Birds
Spotting scopes and remote cameras aid threatened Western snowy plovers.
A Faustian Bargain
California is considering licensing for agriculture a chemical that a group of highly regarded chemists says they use only with “great precautions to avoid exposure”—even under laboratory conditions.
In The Field
Buying out the back door.
Rethinking the Dream
Can we ever rid ourselves of the suburbs? Or should they be repurposed as something else? A conversation with Allison Arieff.
Back to School
Green jobs training is booming—but jobs can be hard to find.
Prioritizing Green Thumbs Over Collars
In the not-so-distant past, the phrase “green collar jobs” didn’t conjure up images of workers measuring the sun’s angle for the best year-round solar array placement.
Public Transportation Feels the Pinch
State budget crisis trickles down to AC Transit riders.
Home Is Where the Food Grows
As the recession lingers, more people convert lawns to mini-farms.
From Grass to Greens
Sustainable landscape designer Joshua Thayer of Berkeley’s Native Sun Gardens
explains how to lose your lawn.
Cutting Off the North Coast
Economic downturn makes remote wild areas harder to protect.
Coyotes ’round the Town
Wily Coyote comes close—sometimes too close for comfort.
Keeping Coyotes Wild
Camilla Fox of Project Coyote recommends the following steps to prevent coyotes from being attracted to your home:
Ask the Eco Team
Creative gifting
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 knowledge of California […]
Window on the Ecology Center
Modeling the Future
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