Community Coastal Column: 2021 Roundup
2021 by the Numbers
In 2021 Northcoast Environmental Center volunteers collected 13,814 pieces of trash across Humboldt County. That included 2,996 fireworks, 2,337 cigarette butts,...
Solutions Summit | February 2022
CLEANING UP TRASH ISLANDS
In October 2021, 27-year-old inventor-entrepreneur Boyan Slat and his team at The Ocean Cleanup collected 9,000 kilograms (roughly 20,000 pounds) of...
Get on Board for the Climate: A Heretical Proposal
Civilization's only hope, so far, for getting out from under the deadly greenhouse gas emissions of fossil fuels is to build many wind and...
DIY ZERO: Biochar: Good for the Garden, Good for the Earth
You’ve probably heard of biochar, and thought it sounded like a good thing. But you may not have realized how easy it is to...
Eye On Washington: Looking Back at 2021 with Hope
By many, if not most, measures of conservation progress, 2021 was a welcome change. After the last few years of an administration that took...
The High (Energy) Cost of Farmed Fish
Nordic Aquafarms California, LLC is proposing to construct a land-based finfish recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility on the Samoa Peninsula. The facility, which would...
No Coal Humboldt: Waiting & Watching
In early January the City of Eureka passed an ordinance prohibiting the storage and handling of coal on city-owned properties. Shortly before that, Senator...
Sea Level Rise in Action: What Will Become of the 101 Corridor?
Humboldt is experiencing one of the fastest rates of sea level rise on the West Coast. This has major impacts for the Eureka-Arcata corridor...
In Memoriam: Edward Osborne (E.O.) Wilson, 1929 – 2021
Studying nature since the age of nine and becoming the curator of entomology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology might be accomplishment enough...
Where Does Your Water Come From?
Where does your drinking water come from? If you live in Eureka, Arcata, McKinleyville, or Blue Lake, it comes from the sand beds underneath...
Elwha: A River Reborn and a Vision of What’s Possible
“And, always, there is the river,” begins author Lynda V. Mapes, staff reporter for the Seattle Times newspaper, in the 2013 publication of Elwha:...
NEC Library Unveiling
Those of you who have known the NEC for decades probably have a mental association between the NEC and the written word. Besides publishing...
Now for Some Positive Developments
Colin Fiske, Executive Director
As an environmentalist “development” has long seemed like a dirty word to me. I spent a lot of my childhood in...
California Native Plant Society | February 2022
Evening Programs
February 9, Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. “Silvery Phacelia, Rare Coastal Dune Beauty of Del Norte County.” Silvery Phacelia exists only in the dunes of...
Urgent Call to Enforce Existing Plastic Laws
Maggie Gainer, Zero Waste Humboldt
Zero Waste Humboldt joined a growing coalition of organizations and businesses urging California Governor Newsom and State Attorney General Rob...
Post-Fire Logging and the Hazard Tree Loophole
Felice Pace, North Group Water Chair
I have sometimes wondered if the U.S. Forest Service has an evil genie locked in a windowless office in...
The North Coast Holds Together Through Redistricting
Tom Wheeler, EPIC Executive Director
Redistricting is complete. For more than six months, EPIC has asked for your help in testifying before the California Citizens...
King Tides Photos Help Envision the Future
Jen Kalt, Humboldt Baykeeper Director
The Humboldt Bay King Tides Photo Initiative began in 2011 as a community science project to document the highest tides...
Radical Refuge: Earthseed Laboratories
On 40 acres up Highway 299, HSU associate professor of English Renée Byrd is working to create a radical space of healing that is...
Pueblos Indígenas Desaparecides y Asesinades
Chelsea Miraflor Trillo (Mindanaoan/Visayan)
traducido por Carlrey Arroyo
Los Pueblos Indígenas son parte integral de la Tierra porque somos de Ella. Es por eso que los...
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples
Chelsea Miraflor Trillo (Mindanaoan/Visayan)
Indigenous Peoples are integral to Earth because we are of Her. That is why Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) is...
Letters to EcoNews: The Past Hasn’t Passed
Thank you EcoNews for featuring Samantha Gaiera's insightful and blistering critique of our nation's century-old compulsory schooling experiment. Its legacy of historic increases in...
Caroline Griffith: New Kid In Town
Elena Bilheimer, EcoNews Journalist
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
The following is an interview with the Northcoast Environmental Center's new Executive Director, Caroline Griffith.
How did you...
News from the Center | February 2022
Larry Glass, NEC Board President
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
Nordic Aquafarms
The long-awaited draft EIR for the proposed fish farm on the Samoa Peninsula has finally...