Dear Member,
   The year 2012 is an important milestone in the recent history of our Northern California community.  Our landscapes and viewscapes have been preserved and protected by hosts of hardworking land savers over the past century.  This year marks important anniversaries  of a number of true landmarks created by those far seeing individuals.  KRCB is happy to help celebrate their accomplishments.
   Our friends at Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD), have been preserving watershed for an incredible 100 years. The Golden Gate Bridge turns 75 and we’ll be interested to see what sort of celebration is planned this time ’round. Marin County Parks turns 40. The precious Point Reyes National Seashore was dedicated 50 years ago and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 40 years ago. The creation of both these national parks will be explored in Moments in Time (working title), a documentary by Kelly-Yamamoto Productions in partnership with KRCB. If the last part of the production funding can be raised quickly, we will look forward to Point Reyes making the documentary a part of their celebration this fall.
   We stand, as Huey Johnson says, on the shoulders of these visionaries.  KRCB’s Natural Heroes encourages us to look around today and re-dedicate ourselves to this important public work.

Dear Member,
   Once again, KRCB has been selected as one of a very small pool of stations to take part in a national project.
   NPR has selected 13 stations from across the country to participate in a pilot project on planned giving and gift annuities over the next year. Planned giving is emerging as a very important way in which loyal supporters of the station can have a lasting supportive influence on the success of KRCB. You may have noticed on KRCB a series of thank you spots expressing our
appreciation to individuals who have made such a long term gift. There are details at krcb.org/planned-giving.
   By the way, thanks to our fantastic donors, The Bay Area Wine and Epicurean Auction, exceeded our goal. Congratulations to the successful bidders and thanks to our great auction staff and volunteers.
   Have a happy and safe holiday season.

Dear Member,
   This month we are airing loads of great programs on the American Labor Movement (see page 7) as well as on Hispanic Heritage Month (page 9).
   One show, Harvest of Loneliness, covers both topics. Harvest of Loneliness was brought to our attention by our good friend Alicia Sanchez whose father was a bracero, as were many fathers, uncles, and grandfathers of those of us who live in the North Bay today. The film, directed by Gilbert Gonzalez, professor emeritus at UC Irvine, tells of the difficulties and injustices that the braceros experienced. The film is important Hispanic and labor history, and is also, in the context of today’s debate on immigration, a look at how one “guest worker” program worked.
   On September 14 at 10:30 pm on KRCB Television check out the KRCB Classic, Go Chanting Libre. With the support of the
National Endowment for the Arts, in 1985, KRCB produced this portrait of Latino poet, Juan Felipe Herrera. Juan Felipe was part of the great Poetry in the Schools program; remember when programs like that existed? Herrea is now one of the
nation’s most respected poets, so we are delighted to bring the film back as a part of Hispanic heritage month.

Dear Member,You have read many times in these pages about KRCB’s own Natural Heroes, about which we are very proud. We are about to launch the fifth season with high hopes of continuing to build a significant national audience. Because KRCB is so much of the North Bay and Bay Area, folks sometimes forget that Natural Heroes is, in fact, a
national series with over 50% of the American households now able to tune in thorough their local public station.

In addition to Natural Heroes, KRCB provides a wide variety of other environmental programs, some of which have also been distributed nationally, and others available to the Bay Area. You can find Climate One on both KRCB Television and Radio. This excellent speakers series from the Commonwealth Club of California brings together top thinkers and doers from business, government, academia and advocacy groups to advance the discussion about a clean energy future.

Bay Nature on the Air and Around the Bay with Will Travis feature our beautiful natural landscape and the challenges of rising sea levels. Lisa Friedenthal-Lee’s Don’t Throw That Away turns young people’s attention to trash, while KRCB and InCA Productions teamed up to produce Powering Up to feature simple changes we can make to significantly reduce our energy consumption.

All reflecting KRCB’s commitment to our community and our world.