Environment

In this winter edition of "news and notes" I feature the launch of my new website, a profile of San Francisco Botanical Garden Society and the latest from Women's Environmental Network, including [...]

As I look back on the highlights for 2016, books and their authors catalyzed many of my most memorable experiences. I am an avid reader of books about wildlife, conservation and the environment. [...]

Last week I gave a talk for the Women’s Environmental Network at the San Francisco Department of the Environment on what we gain from living lives of adventure and pushing our comfort zones in [...]

On the first weekend of autumn, I said goodbye to the long days of summer with a backcountry hike in Yosemite National Park, where nighttime temperatures dropped to below freezing, days were [...]

“If anything can save the world, I’d put my money on beauty.” Doug Tompkins, the late conservationist and philanthropist, once said those words.  I discovered the quote this morning (in [...]

In today’s world there is an urgent need for new ideas and fresh perspectives to spur positive social change and to protect the planet.

This past spring and summer I was immersed in learning and writing about the benefits of nature and wilderness for youth, for science, for parks and for everyone. I attended a summit at UC [...]

How can we solve tough environmental and social problems if women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors? How can we change this [...]

On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, will you join me and thousands more on #GivingTuesday and throughout the holidays to give back to your favorite nonprofits and causes? There is so much more to be done.

What happens to California’s San Joaquin River after it flows from its high altitude headwaters in the Sierra Nevada toward the San Francisco Bay? In June a CNN journalist, who had never [...]