Jessica Sanchez and her son Dominic work on a lawn conversion with the Resilient Neighborhoods program. Photo courtesy Sustainable Solano. Resiliency has become a buzzword in recent years, and with good reason — it’s a useful term to describe the abili …
Retrofitted gantry cranes are the first step toward a zero-emission future at the Port of Oakland. Photo courtesy the Port of Oakland. In 2018, the Port of Oakland handled over 2.5 million cargo containers, making it the eighth-busiest port in the U.S. …
In addition to 32 individual and varied housing units, Pleasant Hill Cohousing includes a shared Common House (the large white building) with a kitchen, dining room, sitting room, laundry, kids room, teens room, crafts room, guest rooms, and bathrooms. …
Postdoctoral researcher Stephanie Spahr uses test columns at Stanford University to evaluate how biochar and other amendments perform as filters for removing contaminants from urban runoff. Photo by Richard Luthy. Last winter was so wet for so long tha …
Planners were feeling ambitious in 1989, setting their sites on creating two massive Bay Area trails — one to ring the shoreline and another to loop around hill and mountain ridgelines. Today, after three decades, lots of fundraising, and plenty of har …
General Motors used old Chevrolet Volt batteries to help supply power to its administrative offices in Milford, Michigan. Photo by John F. Martin. Already plentiful in electronic devices, batteries also power an increasing array of products formerly op …
Stakeholders in regional transportation operations such as the grassroots group Seamless Bay Area are calling for transit fare policy reform. Photo courtesy Seamless Bay Area. What if it were possible to travel by bus, train, electric bike, or rideshar …
A group of otters on the shore of Rodeo Lagoon in the Marin Headlands. Photo by Karen James. On an overcast May morning, Karen James crouched on the edge of Rodeo Lagoon in the Marin Headlands. The sun was barely up, and the only sounds were birdsong a …
Meadows (such as this one in the Sierra Nevada, seen largely in its natural state) provide critical ecosystem and water supply functions. Image courtesy UC Davis Sierra Meadows Data Clearinghouse. This winter’s storms piled so much snow on the Sierra N …
California’s export of recyclable material has already been slowing in recent years, and is expected to drop off sharply as foreign countries impose new restrictions on what they are willing to import. Source: CalRecycle. In a March 17 cover story deta …