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Author Archive for: "Robin"
 Pleasures and Perils of Mushrooming in the Bay Area

Pleasures and Perils of Mushrooming in the Bay Area

May 10, 2022

Debbie Viess is dreaming of morels, delicate wild mushrooms that pop up as the cool of winter yields to the warmth of spring. Her favorite recipe for morels when they’re tiny and tender is [...]

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 From Growing Up By to Restoring the Bay

From Growing Up By to Restoring the Bay

April 20, 2022

Environmental engineer Michelle Orr’s life has been interwoven with the San Francisco Bay since childhood. “I grew up in Oakland with a view of the bay, and we went sailing and to the [...]

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 Smoothing the Way for New Pedestrian Paths

Smoothing the Way for New Pedestrian Paths

March 15, 2022

Charlie Bowen had no idea that a network of walking paths wound through the Berkeley hills until she went to her first Berkeley Path Wanderers Association meeting more than two decades ago. Steep [...]

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 Empowering Youth to Take on Climate Change

Empowering Youth to Take on Climate Change

February 7, 2022

When smoke from the Tubbs fire shrouded the Bay Area in the fall of 2017, Lil Milagro Henriquez choked on the poisoned air. “I couldn’t breathe,” recalls Henriquez, who then [...]

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 Building Environmental Justice from the Inside 

Building Environmental Justice from the Inside 

November 29, 2021

When Nahal Ghoghaie began her career in environmental justice, she advocated for vulnerable communities from the outside as a consultant. Now Ghoghaie elevates their voices from the inside, as [...]

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 Should We Use Open Space to Help Solve the Housing Crisis?

Should We Use Open Space to Help Solve the Housing Crisis?

October 25, 2021

Update: The public hearing for the future of Point Molate has been postponed from November 2021 to spring of 2022. Nearly 25 years ago, the U.S. Navy transferred more than 400 acres on Point [...]

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 Coexisting with Coho During Drought

Coexisting with Coho During Drought

August 23, 2021

When Bolinas farmer Peter Martinelli decided to help coho salmon by boosting summer water levels in Pine Gulch Creek, which runs through his land, he had no idea that the project would take two [...]

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 Bay Area Builds Regional Drought Resilience

Bay Area Builds Regional Drought Resilience

June 1, 2021

It feels like California’s 2011-2016 drought, our worst on record, had barely ended when the next one began. This is our second dry year in a row and, according to the state Department of Water [...]

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 Regional Planning for Sea-Level Rise Is Key to Environmental Justice

Regional Planning for Sea-Level Rise Is Key to Environmental Justice

April 1, 2021

As shoreline communities in the San Francisco Bay Area scramble to prepare for rising seas, they should also be mindful that protecting themselves could worsen flooding elsewhere. This is because [...]

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 New Delta Carbon Market Could Boost Bay Area Water Security

New Delta Carbon Market Could Boost Bay Area Water Security

February 1, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area get their water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, but this vital source is imperiled. Islands in the heart of the Delta have lost so much soil [...]

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