Plankton Presentation | April 25th
Join us online or in the office on April 25 from 4-6PM
Learn about the Plankton Monitoring Network (PMN), how to ID some commonly seen...
Hermosos pero venenosos | Los daños ocultos en los cultivos de bulbos de lirio
Caroline Griffith
Traducido por Denise Villalva
El 6 de agosto, en una medida muy poco habitual para la agencia, la EPA emitió una orden de emergencia...
Pretty but Poisonous | The Hidden Harms of Lily Bulb Farms
Caroline Griffiths, NEC Executive Director
On August 6, in a very rare move for the agency, the EPA issued an emergency order banning the use...
Leonard Peltier Freed!
Leonard Peltier was released from prison after 49 years of incarceration on Tuesday, February 18th. The NEC celebrates the release of the longest held...
Welcome to the NEC | Goodbye to the NEC
WELCOME TO THE NEC
Alice Bundy (she/her) | New EcoNews Layout Coordinator
Alice is a former Cal Poly Humboldt geology student. Disenchanted by the industry's inherent...
Zero Waste Craft | 3-D Animal Portrait
You’ll need: Cardboard,Egg carton, Glue, Scissors, Markers/Paint
Step 1: Cut out a circle or oval shape in your cardboard, and draw your desired background.
Step 2: Cut...
News From The Center
NEC Co-directors
Combing through EcoNews archives for this month's Flashback on the Northwest Forest Plan, Time and Sid's legacies tell us the story of the first...
Hands On: Smith River Alliance Invites Cal Poly Humboldt Natural Resources Club for Restoration...
Emma Wilson, EcoNews Intern
Throughout the weekend of April 20-21, 2024, the Natural Resources (NR) club of Cal Poly Humboldt was invited to Rock Creek...
New Report by Farm Forward: “Corruption and Consumer Fraud at Alexandre Family Farm”
EcoNews Staff
On April 11, 2024, Farm Forward, a research and advocacy non-profit focused on environmental and animal rights abuses of factory farming, released a...
Factory Farm Ban Qualifies for Ballot in Sonoma County
First-ever U.S. county ballot measure to ban Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) could have national implications
Press Release, The Coalition to End Factory Farming
March 27,...
Indigenous Double Film Screening Recap: Culture As Land & Life
Tali Trillo, NEC Staff
On April 13, 2024, spring showers poured as elk stew and popcorn could be smelled from Arcata Playhouse. Over 150 community...
Get on Board for the Climate | Oct. 2024
Sacred Emissions
Martha Walden, Guest Contributor
Oil and gas have a deservedly bad rap for how much methane they emit just from drilling and delivery. California’s...
California Native Plant Society | Oct. 2024
Evening Program
Tall tales—Insights from two Decades of Coast Redwood Canopy Research: Wednesday, October 9, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Marie Antoine is a tree-climbing botanist and research associate...
From the Center – October 2024
Larry Glass, NEC Board President
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
As many astute readers know, our recycling system has long been broken, corrupted by a plastics...
Plankton Presentation May 2024
What is that?
Join us May 24, 4-6pm, at the NEC office at 415 I st, Arcata
Learn about the Plankton Monitoring Network, how to ID...
Trash Craft Night May 2024
Trash Craft Night!
Come zhuzh up your bike for the kinetic grand championship!
When: May 21, 6-8pm
Where: NEC Office 415 I St, Arcata
What: Turn trash into...
Comment Letters
Recent Comment Letters submitted by the Northcoast Environmental Center:
California Ocean Protection Council Statewide Plastics Monitoring Strategy and Plan
NEC Comments on NCIP
EcoNews Staff
We wholeheartedly agree with Abigail on the importance of engaging in this process. When the Bureau of Land Management was formed it was...
Op-Ed: Biden Admin Responding to Global Crisis by Updating NCIP
Abigail Black, Guest Contributor
President Biden is on the verge of protecting more land than any other modern first-term President in American history: he’s already...
News from the Center | March 2024
Larry Glass, NEC Board President
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
Oregon gray wolves
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the killing of three gray wolves...
Community Submission: Visions for the Future
Jeff Hedin, Piercy Fire Protection District Board & Institute for Sustainable Forestry Board
Guest Contributor
I want to see a healthy forest with a healthy human...
Community Submissions: Eco-Poetry
Old Growth Coast Redwood
Shooting straight up into the sky,
the tallest trees in the world
see everything.
They see their kind diminishing
from drought, mega-fires,
real estate development, vineyards.
Between...
Get on Board for the Climate | February 2024
Martha Walden
The Last Days of Fossil Fuels
“The transition to clean energy is happening worldwide and it’s unstoppable. It’s not a question of ‘if’, it’s...
Restaurador de Plantaser: Frutos Rojos Brillantes.
Carol Mone, Restoration Gardener
Traducido por Denise Villalva
¡Oh!, cuando tenía 20 años menos, vivía en la arrogancia de la mediana juventud, pensé que la Restauración...