What Will the Next Plan for the Northwest’s Forests Look Like?
The Northwest Forest Plan — first adopted in 1994 — guides the management of federally owned forest lands in Washington, Oregon and Northern California....
May = Bike Month Humboldt
May is Bike Month in Humboldt County and the EcoNews has all of the resources you need to zip around on two wheels. We...
Build Broadway Better
This week, Gang Green sits down with Caltrans’ Jeff Pimentel to discuss Caltrans’ work to improve Broadway for all road users (and not just motorists). Through...
How to Make Ethical Decisions in Complicated World
Trying to be an ethical person in the modern world is hard. How should we weigh the site-specific impacts from wind energy development against...
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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Questioning Local Government Transparency and Accountability
“The key piece of this whole scheme, is that you get out from under the requirement to provide fish passage over Scott dam” Tom...
EcoNews Roundup Report: Latest environmental news stories for March 2019
Today we’ll be providing brief snippets of current news that pertain to various environmental topics such as the Trinidad Rancheria Hotel project update, youth...
Victory Gardens!
Grocery store shelves got you anxious about food security? Bored at home with nothing to do? Start a Victory Garden! Guests Julia Graham-Whitt and...
The Blue-Sky Thinking Episode
Big, radical, wild ideas. On this week’s episode of the EcoNews Report, Gang Green shares their big ideas for how to save the planet....
To Save an Owl, We Kill an Owl?
The barred owl, not native to California, is quickly becoming established in the state, having flown down the West Coast. The barred owl’s presence...
Power Grid Issues Limit Future Wind Development
The transmission lines running into Humboldt County are fairly small. This has big implications for local efforts to decarbonize our local electricity supply. The...
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...
The Bird Buzz with Ken Burton
On this week’s EcoNews Report, Humboldt’s preeminent bird nerd, Ken Burton, drops by the show to discuss the bird buzz. The Christmas Bird Count...
Governor Brown Signed the Great Redwood Trail Bill!
Scott Greacen, FOER's Conservation Director and Humboldt County's 3rd District Supervisor Mike Wilson discuss SB 1029.
Formerly known as the Great Redwood Trail Act, SB...
Living Through a Firestorm, with Jon Humboldt Gates
November 2, 2019
On this week’s show, the Green Gang interviews author Jon Humboldt Gates about his new book “Firestorm,” the true life account of...
Removing the Eel River’s Scott Dam
CalTrout’s Darren Mierau and Klamath dam campaign veteran Craig Tucker join the Green Gang to talk through the nascent plan to remove Scott Dam...
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...