Stop Shopping for the Holidays
Margaret Gainer and Elena Bilheimer
With November upon us, we are in the thick of the holiday season with all its joy, merriment, celebration and incessant attempts from corporations to entice us to buy the...
Creature Feature: English Ivy
Elena Bilheimer, EcoNews Journalist
Hedera helix, commonly known as English ivy, is an evergreen vine from the Araliaceae (ginseng) family. Native to Europe, Scandinavia, and parts of Russia, English ivy was introduced to North America...
Solutions Summit | May 2023
SOLAR MEADOWS
Solar power companies around the world are designing ground-based solar panel installations that support native plants, animals, and insects, protecting and enriching local ecosystems.
Connexus Energy in Ramsey, Minnesota, boasts what they call the...
Get on Board: Expecting Everything to Burn Anyway
Martha Walden
Anyone who walks in the forest knows there is a lot of dead wood out there. Rotting wood is good for the soil and wildlife habitat, but too much dead wood can be...
Farm Feature: Bayside Park Farm
Elena Bilheimer, EcoNews Journalist
Located in the City of Arcata’s Bayside Park is a three-acre fruit and vegetable farm dedicated to sustainable agriculture and creating an educational space for community members and students to connect...
Yurok Tribe Partners with Women in Fire Program
Yurok Tribe and National Park Service Press Release
Through the Yurok Tribe’s partnership with Redwood National Park, the Yurok Fire Department was selected to train four female firefighters for the National Park Service’s forward-looking Women in...
Celebrate Bike Month
Test Out Complete Streets “Pop Ups” on Broadway
Caltrans
Caltrans and partners have been working toward implementing the vision laid out in the Broadway Multimodal Corridor Plan, and soon will test out some proposed improvements. Throughout the...
Rural Counties Wood Pellet Export Scheme Raises Concerns
Gary Graham Hughes, Americas Program Coordinator, Biofuelwatch
Over the first months of 2023 Humboldt County has taken on a leadership role in a massive scheme that aims to export wood pellets from California to global...
Logging in Your Neighborhood? Here’s Some Advice.
By Elena Bilheimer, EcoNews Journalist
With Help from Tom Wheeler and Matthew Simmons from EPIC
Here at the NEC, we receive many questions from community members and local residents regarding the logging practices of private companies....
Trashlantis Rises
Janine Redwine and Dawn Thomas
“That thing came right for my Frappuccino!” Panicked local resident Pete Hagstrom described how he was knocked to the sand during his morning beach walk with Snicker, his Golden Doodle....
Community Coastal Column | May 2023
Sable Odry, NEC Coastal Programs Coordinator
Update on Humboldt Bay Living Shoreline Planning
On April 6 the Coastal Conservancy approved a grant of up to $750,000 to the County of Humboldt for the “Humboldt Bay Living...
Creativity Shouldn’t Cost the World
Maker’s Apron Press Release
Humboldt’s new Creative Reuse Center is up and running in Old Town. Maker’s Apron Creative Reuse, the spiritual successor to SCRAP Humboldt, is open weekly, accepting donations, offering drop-in crafting during...
California Native Plant Society May 2023
REMINDER
Wildflower Show & Native Plant Sale May 6 & 7. Learn more at www.northcoastcnps.org.
Evening Program
Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Living with Wildfire: Our Forests and Our Homes. Yana Valachovic, the Director and Forest Advisor at...
EPIC: Public Land Timber Sale Round Up
Matt Simmons & Abigail Lowell, EPIC staff
Having trouble keeping track of all of the gigantic logging projects currently proposed by the U.S. Forest Service on Northwest California’s public lands? EPIC is here to help...
Support Juneteenth
Black Humboldt Press Release
Black Humboldt
Black Humboldt (BH) is interested in networking, building relationships and community with the Black & Brown communities of Humboldt, Del Norte & Trinity Counties. BH is a Dream Maker project...
How “Green” is Your Cannabis?
Oden Taylor, EcoNews Intern
Generators, High-Intensity Discharge lighting, dehumidifiers, industrial fans, giant opaque plastic tarps, and single-use, non-recyclable plastic packaging; for a product that claims to put users more in touch with Mother Earth, cannabis...
Refinery Pollution Worse in Communities of Color
Oden Taylor, EcoNews Intern
While it is clear that big oil pollutes the air, how does it affect the water and the creatures that depend on it? On Jan. 26, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP)...
Take Our Waters, Take Our Lives
An Interview with Charley Reed
Interviewer: Tali Trillo, NEC Staff
Describe who you are and your relationship to local lands.
My name is Charley Reed. I’m a Hupa, Yurok, Karuk person whose core identity is immersing through...
Landback in Goukd’in: An Opportunity for Healing and Justice
Landback in Goukd'in: An Opportunity for Healing and Justice
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
Landback, which Indigenous peoples have been working for since the time of colonization, has become more mainstream in recent years. The term...
Celebrate May Day: Support Workers, Defend the Earth
Caroline Griffith, EcoNews Journalist
As we’ve often reported in EcoNews, there are many ways that workers’ rights and environmental rights intersect. In celebration of International Workers’ Day (May 1) we wanted to highlight some of...
Letters to EcoNews: Nuclear & Deep Ecology
Dear EcoNews,
I would like to thank EcoNews Journalist, Elena Bilheimer, for two articles she wrote in the March, 2023 issue of the EcoNews: “Exploring Energy: Nuclear” and “Exploring Different Environmental Ideologies.”
Both are well-researched...
News from the Center | May 2023
Larry Glass, NEC Board President
Caroline Griffith, NEC Executive Director
Green Colonialism
Many of us think of colonialism and colonization as things that happened in the past, but grabbing land to exploit its resources is still a...