Environment

In 1864 a forward-thinking United States Senator from California by the name of John Conness introduced a bill to protect Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa grove of giant sequoias for all time. [...]

In a post to celebrate Earth Day today, Jamie Rappaport Clark, President and CEO of Defenders of Wildlife, points out that the United States has many “firsts in conservation:” [...]

A celebrity lives in a park above the Hollywood Hills amid a thick cover of chaparral and oak woodlands. He has helped rally the public to understand the plight of wildlife living on the urban [...]

Amid the deepening drought in California, recently I attended a convening at Sunset in Menlo Park to discuss “The Future of Water” in California and the West. Academics, water district managers, [...]

Today is International Women’s Day. March is Women’s History Month. And the year 2014 marks the 150th anniversary of Yosemite National Park and the California State Park system. I am honoring [...]

A few years ago, I led presentations featuring “wildlife ambassadors” for a diversity of public school students. While showing the kids a desert tortoise, a reptile protected by the [...]

Do you know of a leader in the nonprofit sector who is making a difference in tackling California’s water challenges? The James Irvine Foundation is accepting nominations for the 2015 Leadership [...]

I started this blog in 2007 as a way to organize my thoughts and learn about promising solutions relating to topics that interest and concern me – social innovation, social justice, public lands [...]

This week I am guest blogging on the Bay Area Open Space Council blog.

Find out how an all-volunteer nonprofit organization used the state parks budget crisis in California to knock loose some funding from the state, win a foundation grant to make critical repairs, [...]