How will Humboldt Reach 100% Clean, Renewable Energy?
In 2019, the Redwood Coast Energy Authority adopted a goal to deliver 100% clean, renewable electricity to all customers by 2025 and for 100%...
Enviros Challenge County Over Cannabis
Local environmental groups — Northcoast Environmental Center, Citizens for a Sustainable Humboldt and the Redwood Region Audubon Society — have filed their second lawsuit...
How Will the IRA Impact Humboldt?
The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest single action taken by the United States against the climate crisis ever. Roughly $370 million will go...
Confused by the Cones on Broadway?
Let’s face it: Broadway sucks. Especially for pedestrians and non-car users. Thankfully, Caltrans recognizes the deep suckiness of Broadway and is committed to making...
Klamath River Update
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EcoNews Report Roundup December 2018
Environmental stories in 30 minutes – that’s the EcoNews Roundup!
For December’s EcoNews Report Roundup Larry Glass, NEC’s Executive Director, and Bella Waters, NEC’s Admin...
How Can We Make the Outdoors an Inclusive Space?
January 25, 2020
On this week’s episode, Luis Villa, Director of Latino Outdoors, joins the Green Gang to talk about how to make nature a...
ROUND-UP SHOW! Billboards, Birdwatching and the Trump Administration’s Attack on Federal Environmental Laws
This week's show is a lightning round on various environmental developments around the region and the world: New developments on Eel River dam removal,...
Salmon’s Struggle in the Shasta
The Shasta River should be chock full of salmon. (It was, after all, the largest salmon producing tributary to the Klamath prior to Euro-American...
Housing is an Environmental Issue
Ask anyone who has tried to look for rental housing lately and they’ll tell you that housing in Humboldt is expensive. Humboldt, like California...
Election Wrapup
The “Red Wave” turned out to be more like a ripple, with Democrats holding onto the Senate and Republicans taking only a slim majority...
Celebrate Latino Heritage Month With Latino Outdoors
On this week’s episode, Luis Villa, Director of Latino Outdoors, joins the show to talk about how to make nature a safe, welcoming and...
Local Author Sharon Levy Discusses the Arcata Marsh
George Zaminsky, Friends of the Arcata Marsh, interviews local science author Sharon Levy on her newly released book "The Marsh Builders: The Fight for...
Humboldt Bay Symposium 2019: Rising to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change
My guests are Joe Tyburczy and Aldaron Laird, coordinators of the Humboldt Bay Symposium, which will be held on April 11 and 12 at...
Local Hugo-Award Winning Author Becky Chambers Talks About Her Worlds and This One
February 22, 2020 - Becky Chambers, local resident and Hugo Award-winning science fiction author, talks with the Green Gang about her work and her...
Are Toxic Tires Killing Salmon?
Researchers in the Journal Science report that a chemical in car tires, 6PPD-quinone (pronounced “kwih-known”), is a likely coho salmon killer. The chemical, used...
It’s Coastal Cleanup Time!
Folks, it’s that time of year again! Time for Coastal Cleanup Month! This week, Northcoast Environmental Center Coastal Programs Coordinator, Ivy Munnerlyn, and Co-Director,...
California’s Climate Plan Misses the Mark?
On this week’s EcoNews Report, Gang Green talks with Professor Dan Kammen of UC Berkeley and Gary Hughes of Biofuelwatch to investigate how the...
Solving The Climate Crisis Requires More Than Just Electrifying Your Pick-up Truck
This week, Colin Fiske of Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities and Matt Simmons of EPIC join the show to talk about why the race...
Barred Owls Impact More than Spotted Owls
On this week’s EcoNews Report, spotted owl experts Dave Wiens and Peter Carlson join bird nerds Ken Burton and Tom Wheeler to discuss barred...
EcoNews Report: Return of the East-West Railroad
EPIC's Tom Wheeler interviews Lost Coast Outpost Reporter Ryan Burns and Northcoast Environmental Center's Larry Glass as they discuss the return of the zombie...
Is Your Pot Killing Northern Spotted Owls?
November 9, 2019
On this week’s episode, the Green Gang talks with Jackee Riccio of the CROP Project about trespass cannabis grows —those rascals growing...
Why Spring- and Summer-Run Salmonids are So Damn Interesting and Weird
A discussion of spring-run Chinook and summer-run steelhead. With Bill Tripp of the Karuk Tribe, consultant Craig Tucker and fish researcher Sam Kannry.
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Food Waste Fuels Climate Change
Before you throw away that half-eaten sandwich, you’ll want to listen to this week’s EcoNews Report. Every year, Humboldt County sends thousands of pounds...
Meet RCCER — Enviros Organize for Political Power
The Redwood Coalition for Climate and Environmental Responsibility — RCCER, pronounced “rocker” — is aiming to give a larger voice to environmental voters by...