Another Caltrans Travesty
by Elaine Weinreb
Westhaven has always been a quiet rural place with no downtown, no stores - at least in recent years - and no...
The Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Your Cheeseburger
By Margaret Castro
Climate change tends to evoke images of smokestacks, traffic jams, dry lake beds, melting polar ice caps, and numerous woebegone thoughts. These...
Honored Zero Heroes Personify Zero Waste Values
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Zero Waste Humboldt announced the 2021 Zero Heroes and hosted a virtual event to honor six businesses and one individual...
CNPS Happenings — Oct. 2021
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Evening Program
October 13, Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. "Marvelous Mycoheterotrophs: The Beauty and Science of Floral-Fungal Freeloaders." If you've ever...
Celebrating Another Successful Bay Tour Season
By Jasmin Segura, Humboldt Baykeeper Bay Tours Coordinator
As Bay Tours Coordinator, I have the privilege, through a grant from the California Coastal Conservancy, to...
Forest Defense: A North Coast Tradition
by Ellen E. Taylor
Twenty-five years ago, Darryl Cherney remarked that he expected tree-sitting to become a national pastime. From his high perch in a...
Klamath Salmon in Peril: State Water Board Poised to Curtail Irrigation in the...
By Felice Pace
The Shasta and Scott Watersheds once produced the largest number of salmon in the entire Klamath River Basin. The Shasta was particularly fine...
CAL FIRE Shirks Responsibilities by Delaying Surveys
By Matt Simmons, EPIC Legal Fellow
EPIC has noticed a disturbing trend in California’s private timber regulatory scheme. CAL FIRE has been approving timber harvest...
The End of the Line: A Spur Track to Nowhere
By Caroline Griffith
Here we go again. A Sept. 2 article in Lost Coast Outpost left many north coast residents wondering if they had been...
Letter to EcoNews: Police Reform and the Environment
Police Reform and the Environment
I recently read an interesting opinion piece in EcoNews from Matt Simmons, (Redwood Coalition for Climate and Environmental Responsibility), titled...
Letter to EcoNews: Difficult Decisions
Greetings Editor,
As someone working in the grocery industry for over 25 years, ranging from working at tiny independent natural food stores and cooperatives to...
OpEd: Distributed Solar Deserves a Closer Look
by Ken Miller
Amidst the largely uncritical celebration of offshore wind (EcoNews, 9/21), Widespread Distributed Solar Photovoltaics (WDS) deserves an accurate representation.
WDS produces electricity from...
News From the Center
by Larry Glass and Carrie Tully
The staff here at the NEC couldn’t be happier about the way Coastal Cleanup Month went! With transitioning from...
Coastal Cleanup Month Week 1 Prize Basket
Welcome to Coastal Cleanup Month! Our first cleanup is this Saturday at 11am at the Eureka Public Marina! Sign up at www.yournec.org/coastalcleanupmonth.
All volunteers...
Work Study: Office & Event Support
Work Schedule:
Flexible, must be available during some weekday hours for regularly scheduled meetings, and completing office-related tasks.
Hours per Month:
20 hours per month
Wage/Salary:
$13.00
Wage/Salary Type:
Hourly
Employment Start...
Poem: Invitation to Interstellar Circus Lovers
Invitation to Interstellar Circus Lovers
by Ellen E. Taylor
The purple swamphen charts the flow
Of Taurus mountain’s melted snow
Deaf to din of Shock and Awe
Atop her...
Participate in the Regional Transportation Plan Update and Help Move Transportation Priorities Forward
press release
The way we choose to move ourselves through the community can have major impacts on the local economy, public health and our environment....
Solutions Summit
Michael D. Pulliam
MAINE TAXES PLASTIC PRODUCERS
In July 2021, Maine became the first U.S. state to officially hold corporations fiscally responsible for their own plastic...
Sequestration Is Where It’s At
by Martha Walden for 11th Hour
We live with awesome forces of nature here in Humboldt County. Ocean, wind, and forest are wild, but they...
Join Friends of the Dunes for Dune Ecosystem Restoration Team (DERT) Summer Nights
Friends of the Dunes
Relax and restore with the Dune Ecosystem Restoration Team (DERT) at the new DERT Summer Nights program, happening on the first...
Eye on Washington: September 2021
by Dan Sealy, Legislative Analyst
Recess is Over
Congress took most of August and the first week of September off to return to their districts, meet...
An NEC Remembrance…
by Tom Leskiw
Summer 1978 found me working as a hydrologic technician in Hayfork for the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. My primary duty was to walk...
Public Demands Logging Moratorium in Jackson State Forest
Youth Lead March to CalFire Meeting Ft. Bragg -- Elders Disrupt, Shut It Down
press release from Redwood Nation Earth First! and Mama Tree Network
Ft....
The Link Between The Environment and Police Reform
by Matt Simmons, Redwood Coalition for Climate and Environmental Responsibility
The Redwood Coalition for Climate and Environmental Responsibility (RCCER) calls for the establishment of a...
How Can We Fix Our Recycling System? The Recycling Commission Has Some Suggestions
by Caroline Griffith
California has some of the most ambitious recycling and waste-reduction goals in the country, and by and large, Californians support these goals...