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Printing Without Plastic: The Vintage Machine Winning Over Eco-Conscious Artists
This comic guide to risograph printing explains how the 1980s Japanese machine cuts energy use and avoids plastic toner.
How a North Bay Regional Park Helped Me Reconnect With Nature — and Myself
A young Fairfield resident reflects on how hiking during the pandemic became a refuge from digital overload and the growing realities of climate change.
Wild Pigs Rough Up Bay Area Greens
They tear up landscapes in search of food, prey on native wildlife, and damage streams, and warming could bring them closer to urban areas.
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New Study Shows Rain Gardens Filter Chemicals Out of Stormwater
Scientists found rain gardens dramatically reduce toxic chemicals in stormwater while providing biodiversity and cooling.
Printing Without Plastic: The Vintage Machine Winning Over Eco-Conscious Artists
This comic guide to risograph printing explains how the 1980s Japanese machine cuts energy use and avoids plastic toner.
How a North Bay Regional Park Helped Me Reconnect With Nature — and Myself
A young Fairfield resident reflects on how hiking during the pandemic became a refuge from digital overload and the growing realities of climate change.
Wild Pigs Rough Up Bay Area Greens
They tear up landscapes in search of food, prey on native wildlife, and damage streams, and warming could bring them closer to urban areas.
Residents Chose Different Ways to Respond to Contra Costa Flood Challenges
Graduates of a shoreline leadership program in Contra Costa County recently pitched their ideas for sea level rise education and adaptation.
Pacheco Pass Is Getting a Second Wind
In Pacheco Pass, a decades-old wind farm is getting an upgrade that will double CleanPowerSF’s wind energy.
Climate Change, A Scorpion’s POV
From the Sierra Nevada to the Mojave Desert, the state’s native scorpions are losing habitat as heat, wildfires, and development reshape ecosystems.
12 Creek Types: Which One Is In Your Backyard?
Geomorphologist Gregory Pasternack and his team documented 12 types of Bay Area creeks to help residents protect themselves from flood threats.
The Climate Questions Facing Bay Area Voters This Spring
Important details about votes on transit funding, open space preservation, wildfire prevention, and earthquake prep this Election Day.
Alviso Stays Strong, With Help from NGO
Annexed by San José in 1968, the bayside community has long felt the effects of flooding and neglect, but one community organization is finding hope.
Finding the Sweet Spot for Local Economies
The theory of Doughnut Economics proposes a society that balances environmental sustainability with social well-being.
A New Tax to Maintain Green Spaces Around Santa Clara?
If passed, Measure D would would raise $17 million annually for the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority.