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...
Coastal Cleanup
Listen to NEC staff Caroline Griffith and Sable Odry discuss the various cleanups happening this month and beyond with EcoNews Report host Tom Wheeler.
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An Ode to the Humble (and Humboldt) Oyster
David George Gordon, author of the new book, Heaven of the Half Shell, joins the show to discuss all things oysters. From indigenous cultivation...
Sonoma Proposal for Eel River Dams, and Why Humboldt Should Be Wary
On this week’s episode of the EcoNews Report our host Tom Wheeler is joined by Alicia Hamann and Craig Tucker from Friends of the...
What’s a Walkable Community?
Walkability expert Dan Burden took Humboldt by storm last week, leading walk audits in Blue Lake, McKinleyville, Arcata, and Eureka. Dan joins the show...
NIMBY Initiative on the Ballot?
Rob Arkley is back at it again! This time with a new ballot initiative that would block new affordable housing in downtown Eureka and...
What’s In Store for Offshore Port Development?
Offshore wind energy can be thought of as three distinct projects: the construction of offshore wind turbines, the actual operation and generation of electricity,...
Flow Enhancement Projects on the South Fork Eel
How do you improve the flow of a river? Just ask our friends at Salmonid Restoration Federation. On this week’s episode of the EcoNews...
Sea Otters: More Than Just Obnoxiously Cute!
Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) once swam along the North Coast of California, but 18th- and 19th-century fur trappers nearly caused the species to go...
What’s That Fence In the River?
This week on the EcoNews Report hosts Alicia Hamann from Friends of the Eel River and Tom Wheeler from EPIC discuss an experimental installation...
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...
A Trip Back in Time to the Ghost Forest, With Author and Redwood Summer...
It would seem unbelievable if it wasn’t true. EarthFirst!, bombs, crooked cops, racists. This is the story of the redwoods, or rather, the fight...
Community Benefits from Offshore Wind?
For offshore wind to be successful, there will need to be considerable investment in Humboldt County—from big infrastructure, like new transmission lines and substations,...
Protecting 30% of California by 2030
California has set a bold conservation goal to protect 30% of its lands and coastal waters by 2030. This “30x30” goal aligns with a...
How to Run a Rural Transit Agency
Running a transit agency in a rural area is hard work. Just ask Greg Pratt, General Manager of the Humboldt Transit Authority. Less dense...
New Fish, Who Dis?
Nordic Aquafarms recently announced that it was making a switch: yellowtail kingfish, a fish native to the warm waters of the Pacific, instead of...
Enviros are Pro-Development (at Least Sometimes!)
Local environmental groups have gotten very good at saying “no” to developments, whether it is a liquid natural gas export facility on Humboldt Bay...
Suing the Feds for Klamath Water
Despite the wildly wet year, the Bureau of Reclamation has threatened to reduce flows in the Klamath River below the mandatory minimum for salmon....
Bird Nerds Rejoice: Godwit Days are Here Again!
On this week's EcoNews Report, Ken Burton, local bird nerd, joins the show to discuss this year's Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival and other...
Scott Dam and its Shaky Seismic Stability
Tune into the EcoNews Report for big news about Eel River dam removal – PG&E is finally taking dam safety seriously! On March 16...
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...
Tribal Marine Stewards Network
Today’s guests, Jaytuk Steinruck of Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation and Megan Rocha of Resighini Rancheria, join the show to talk about the Tribal Marine Stewards...
Save Money While Saving the Planet
So you have decided to do your part to fight climate change (or maybe you just don’t want a gas stove to slowly kill...
Jared Huffman, Man and Congressman, Returns to the Show to Spill all the DC...
We don’t know why he continues to join the show — doesn’t he realize he’s palling around with a bunch of treehugger dirt worshipers?...
Big Government Isn’t Coming to Steal Your Gas Stove (But Maybe It Should)
For a weird, brief moment, prominent conservatives pitched a collective freak out over the false notion that the Biden Administration was coming to steal...