Environment

Museums are undergoing reinvention to become participatory, family-friendly and more open to a diversity of people and perspectives. The Oakland Museum of California reopens its Gallery of [...]

In the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley next to the UC Berkeley campus, an international environmental and human rights organization headquartered here recently won the prestigious [...]

Park advocates have worked tirelessly for the past year – mobilizing volunteers and inspiring philanthropy for parks.

Park advocates have now patched together short-term funding and operating solutions to help keep 69 parks open, at least for now.

As California careens toward closing state parks for the first time in the state’s history on July 1, the issue is receiving nationwide attention.

Over 300 individuals, corporations and foundations contributed funds to keep the mile-high park in Southern California open for another year.

"Protecting the redwoods today is different and more challenging than at any point in the long history of state parks."

We are close to witnessing the closure of state parks for the first time in our state’s history due to a $22 million budget shortfall on July 1, 2012. How many parks have been saved? How many [...]

Since the parks inception, nonprofits and citizen action groups have worked to help fix the park and offer experiences for youth.

"The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond our reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the only home we shall ever know; the only paradise we ever [...]