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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

Stay Updated: www.northcoastcnps.org  https://www.facebook.com/NorthCoastCNPS/ CNPS welcomes everyone.  No expertise required. ................................................................. Evening Program   October 13, Wednesday. 7:30 p.m.  "Marvelous Mycoheterotrophs: The Beauty and Science of Floral-Fungal Freeloaders."  If you've ever...

contact@zerowastehumboldt.org         www.facebook.com/ZeroWasteHumboldt   Zero Waste Humboldt announced the 2021 Zero Heroes and hosted a virtual event to honor six businesses and one individual...

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...

by Elaine Weinreb    Westhaven has always been a quiet rural place with no downtown, no stores - at least in recent years - and no...

By Chad Roberts, NEC Life Member   Conservation was a central focus of the countercultural upwelling in the North Coast in the late 1960s, more so...

by Ally Gran and Ted Humphrey Dave Van de Mark is a living legend at Redwood National & State Parks. He arrived in Northern California...

The Monster Project has been supporting collaborations between artists for over 6 years. The outcome of these collaborations have been the creation of large-scale...

Dan Sealy, NEC Legislative Analyst Biden Nominates Indigenous Tribal Member to Lead the National Park Service The last administration found it increasingly difficult and embarrassing to...

By Caroline Griffith As anyone who has followed the decades-long efforts to take down Klamath Dams knows, dam removal is a complex process. Oftentimes far...

by Martha Walden    One of the biggest climate-changing threats facing civilization flies under the radar for most people: refrigerants. Emissions from these man-made chemicals are...

by Michael D. Pulliam REWILDING CANADIAN FARMS Topsy Farms on Amherst Island, Ontario, Canada, has rededicated an acre of their sheep pasture to the wild plants...

Of course coal is unacceptable and it is pleasing to watch the Supervisors, Huffman, McGuire and Wood beat the drum against opening up the...