Welcome to the Team: Summer Interns
Karina Ramos Villalobos is a community activist, journalist, and artist. She has been a guest on Wiyot land since 2019 when she began attending...
Solutions Summit | July 2022
HUMBOLDT LAUNCHES MILESTONE MICROGRID
A coalition of energy-conscious companies and government bodies has developed California's first 100% renewable multi-customer microgrid, a resilient alternative to getting...
Get on Board for the Climate: Is California Losing Faith?
Martha Walden, 350 Humboldt
First there was AB 32: fifteen percent greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction below 1990 levels by 2020. Flushed with early success in...
DIY ZERO: The Role of Recycling
Susan Nolan
It’s become clear that recycling is not going to solve our solid waste problems, and zero waste should be our goal. Still, recycling...
Eye on Washington | July 2022
Dan Sealy, NEC Legislative Analyst
Plastics
Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, has ordered the National Park Service to phase out plastics, both single-use containers and...
Working Towards Land Return in Goukdi’n: A History of Genocide and a Future of...
Editor's Note: This project received 2nd place in the graduate level Humanities, Arts, and Letters category in the CSU Student-Led Research Competition.
Carrie Tully, Save...
Farm Feature: Abbey of the Redwoods’ Sea Goat Farm
Elena Bilheimer, EcoNews Journalist
Sea Goat Farm, currently in the midst of its second season, offers locally grown produce to the community at its farmstand...
Ascending to New Heights in the Trinity Alps
Sophia Sady, Ascend Wilderness Experience Public Relations Manager
Ascend Wilderness Experience (Ascend) is a Trinity County based non-profit that has been quietly taking youth on...
Heart of Dryness Book Review
Ali Ong Lee
In this third year of a sustained California drought – in anticipation of more wildfires and amidst climate change crises – we...
The Sea is Rising. Will Humboldt Rise to the Occasion?
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
The first mention of Sea Level Rise (SLR) in EcoNews was the February 1981 issue, so readers of this publication...
EPIC: Jackson Demonstration State Forest Update
Matt Simmons, Staff Attorney for EPIC
There have been a lot of developments in the fight to Save Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF). We thought...
California Native Plant Society | July 2022
Field Trips
July 3, Sunday. 1-5 p.m. Salmon Pass Trail in Headwaters Forest Reserve. Docent Susan Halpin will tell us history and natural history as...
ZWH: Festival Season
Krista Miller, Zero Waste Humboldt
Now that we are back to social gatherings it’s time to take a look at Zero Waste drinking. No, we...
Kin to the Earth: Maggie Gainer
Maureen Hart, Sustainability Consultant
Before she had learned the term “recycling,” Margaret (Maggie) Gainer’s parents raised her with the Appalachian cultural value of “making do.”...
What’s Happening With That Climate Action Plan?
Elena Bilheimer, EcoNews Journalist
The recent public release of the draft regional Humboldt Climate Action Plan (CAP) offers the community an important opportunity to contribute...
Dabawouwulh ta’luwouyit! (Let’s throw the dam away!)
Michelle Vassel
There we were, standing in the middle of where the Eel River has always been, on a bed of rock, covered in...
Les Jóvenes Están Bien
por Matt Simmons, EPIC
traducción por Carlrey Arroyo
Brown c. Junta de Educación, Loving v. Virginia, Obergefell v. Hodges, estos son los nombres de algunos de...
The Youths Are Alright
Matt Simmons, EPIC
Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia, Obergefell v. Hodges, these are the names of some of the most famous and...
Letters to EcoNews
Editor's Note: In the April 2022 EcoNews issue Farzad Forouhar wrote the article "Smokey Bear: A Savior or An Agent?". In the June 2022...
Dear EcoNews: Wounded Wildlife
Dear EcoNews,
During a recent conversation with a friend, she recounted an experience she had in which she and her partner came across a sea...
Rachel Carson Wielded a Mighty and Eloquent Pen
Dan Sealy, NEC Board
Before 1962, scenes of children enjoying lunch at picnic tables in parks while being sprayed with clouds of pesticides were common....
News from the Center | July 2022
Larry Glass, NEC Board President
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
Let’s Start With the Good News!
In a turn of events that thrilled environmental activists on the...