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Bay Area Bountiful: OSA Mapping

There’s a MAP for that! Cartographer Anna McGarrigle uses the latest Geographic Information System technology (GIS )to make up-to-date maps for the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority. F or more i...

Bay Area Bountiful: Science To The Rescue

On this edition of Bay Area Bountiful, we look at some of the many contributions science and scientists make to our society. We visit San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences where vital researc...

Climate Action in the Time of COVID

Youth leaders in Sunrise Movement Sonoma County are fighting for a climate-safe future for all people, and for policy that will create millions of good, green jobs. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the...

Bay Area Bountiful: Hazy Daze - Bay Area Air Quality

More wildfires and higher temperatures combine to produce more days with poor air quality throughout our region. Bay Area Bountiful visits the Bay area Air Quality Management District to learn about t...

Bay Area Bountiful: Life Underground – Bay Area Soil Health

In this edition of Bay Area Bountiful, we dig below Earth’s surface to get the dirt on what it takes to make healthy soils. We learn about the impacts of soil salinity, why composting and carbon seque...

Bay Area Bountiful: Flyway Trail

Snowy plovers say thanks! In Menlo Park, former industrial salt ponds have been restored back to natural wetlands where endangered species can thrive. We visit the Flyway Trail at the Ravenswood Unit...

Bay Area Bountiful: Fisher Creek Women

When a group of female environmentalists from Point Blue Conservation Science and Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority get together to plant native flora along a creek bank in Coyote Valley, the co...

Bay Area Bountiful: The Worm Lady

Master Composter Alane O’Rielly Weber is an evangelist for healthier plants and sustainable soil. She is an indomitable force in support of natural soil health, and has shared her enthusiasm with many...

Minute with Matt: Sticky Monkey-Flower & Dusty-Footed Woodrat

That orange flower by the trail has a lot to offer, and that pile of sticks is not just a pile of sticks! Naturalist Matt Dolkas runs face-first into the lesser known details of sticky monkeyflower an...

Minute with Matt: Wetlands

Get your feet wet and explore some wetlands! Along with providing habitat for fascinating local wildlife, these areas perform a crucial job that helps moderate climate change, called carbon sequestrat...

Minute with Matt: Monarch Butterflies

It’s amazing what you can see if you look—Matt shares a newly emerged western monarch butterfly he has found, and whispers in reverence as it gathers strength. Areas that are preserved for wildlife li...

Minute with Matt: Bay Laurel

California Bay Laurel smells so good! Just crush the leaf and it releases a signature scent. Small mammals and birds line their nests with Bay Laurel leaves to help repel parasites. For more informati...

Bay Area Bountiful: Canopy

When is the best time to plant a tree? Find out from Palo Alto nonprofit Canopy, which is committed to growing urban tree canopy in Midpeninsula communities. Their Teen Urban Forester program enlists...

Bay Area Bountiful: Horses at Wunderlich

Long before the rise of high tech, the San Francisco Peninsula was home to successful entrepreneurs…and their horses! In Woodside, San Mateo County Parks’ Wunderlich Park is the perfect place to explo...

Climate Action Short Story

The Good of the Hive

This segment from Bay Area Bountiful: A Home for Honeybees is about saving the world through art and playfulness. It shows a glimpse into the work of Matthew Willey, who is painting 50,000 honeybees i...

Recycled Water: A Piece of the Water Conservation Puzzle

Recycled water is a very important part of overall water management and water conservation, especially when climate change can result in extreme heat, drought, and wildfires. When recycled water is us...

Biodiversity and Social Diversity: A Resilient Food System

When we talk about resilience in agriculture, we often talk about biodiversity -- how growing many different types of plants and crops together makes a farming operation stronger. The same could be sa...

Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley

The Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley rescues and rehabilitates wildlife, as well as educates the public about how to coexist with our wild neighbors. Produced by Isabel Fischer Audio Engineer and Rec...

From Wool to Wearer

California is a wealth of wool and natural fiber production. With such a bounty of material to create yarn, textiles, and clothing products, where does this fit in with the global fashion industry? In...

Sonoma County Bounty: Farm to Pantry and Food Justice

Farm to Pantry is a volunteer-based organization in Sonoma County that is dedicated to providing the community with free fresh food that might otherwise go to waste. Volunteers glean fruit, vegetables...

Capturing Flavor

Taste. Along with smell, it’s one of the first sensations experienced when eating a cheese. In this story, cheese enthusiast Michael O’Brien helps us discover how different cheeses get their unique fl...

Bay Area Bountiful Celebrates Black Owned Businesses

For February, Bay Area Bountiful celebrates Black History Month with local leaders who are making history. From volunteers at the Sonoma County Black Forum feeding families with food insecurity to Bla...

Farmer Panel - After the Fire (Gravenstein Apple Fair 2018)

Clark Wolfe from Bee-Well Farms leads a group discussion with Let's Go Farm, HALTER, and Fire Chief Tony Gossner about how farms in the North Bay are adapting to life after the 2017 North Bay Wildfire...

Judgment in Paris: Federal Climate Change Legislation

Representative Mike Thompson discussed the history of climate change legislation, specifically on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 and the events leading from then to the historic ag...

Bioneers 2015: Malik Yakini (introduced by Greg Watson)

Malik Yakini, Founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, talks about urban agriculture and the positive effect it can have on community health and empowerment...

Bioneers 2015: Andy Lipkis - Navigating Adaptation and Resilience

As founder and President of L.A.’s legendary TreePeople, Andy Lipkis has brought visionary solutions to the once-poster child of municipal environmental dysfunction. Inventing the citizen forestry mov...

Bioneers 2015: Reclaiming Our Indigeneity and Our Place in Modern Society

Eriel Deranger, a tireless, passionate activist for the rights of Indigenous people, Communications Coordinator of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), a community of 1,200 people living downs...

Bioneers 2015: Crowdsourcing the Feminine Intelligence of the Planet

Growing up in rural Wisconsin, Jensine Larsen scoured news publications for the voices of women teachers. When she couldn’t find them, at 19 she took off for the Amazon, where she gathered stories and...

Bioneers 2015: Junior Walk - Youth Leadership

Junior Walk, a Brower Youth Award Winner, discusses his involvement with the Appalachian resistance to the coal mining industry and mountain-top removal. This speech was given at the 2015 Bioneers Ann...

Bioneers 2015: Building Green Blocs and Justice Bioneers

As one of the nation’s greatest change-makers, former California State Senator Tom Hayden will describe the political evolution of California’s pace-setting clean energy economy as a model for a Green...

Kristina Hill, Ph.D., "Sea Level Rise and Adaptation in Marin" Environmental Forum of Marin 2016 Lecture Series

February 10, 2016. KRISTINA HILL, (Associate Professor of UC Berkeley Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Urban Design) is a theorist, designer and planner who specializes in the app...

CALIFORNIA'S WATER RIVERS, OCEANS, AND OUR FUTURE

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bettina Boxall joins Felicia Marcus, Chair of California’s State Water Resources Control Board, Abby Taylor-Silva, Vice President of Policy and Communications at the...

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