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South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition: Volunteer Heroes
South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition: Volunteer Heroes
Volunteer Heroes. On the landmark five hundredth creek cleanup day his group has hosted, South Bay Clean Creeks Coalition Founder and Executive Director Steve Holmes shares some of the impact the nonp...
Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful
Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful
Treasure Trove of Trash. The San Jose nonprofit Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful works hard to do just that—through their ongoing series of volunteer creek cleanup work parties within the Coyote Creek wate...
BeautifySJ
BeautifySJ
When San Jose volunteers feel the need to clean, BeautifySJ is there to supply all the tools and services necessary to facilitate their anti-litter activism. Since trash and waterways are a bad look f...
Grassroots Ecology
Grassroots Ecology
Weeding Wisdom. Grassroots Ecology volunteers have removing invasive plants down to a science. The conservation nonprofit counts on a steady supply of people power from volunteers of all ages and back...
Riparian Restoration
Riparian Restoration
Helping Natives Thrive. Katheryn Hill knows that when habitat around local waterways – riparian areas – are restored, native animals return to take advantage of the natural connections these corridors...
The Trash Punx
The Trash Punx
Rock On, Trash Out! San Jose nonprofit The Trash Punx was founded by punk rock drummer Justin Imamura, who brings his outside-the-box enthusiasm and passionate commitment to watershed stewardship to o...
Bay Area Bountiful: OSA Mapping
Bay Area Bountiful: OSA Mapping
There’s a MAP for that! Cartographer Anna McGarrigle uses the latest Geographic Information System technology (GIS )to make up-to-date maps for the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority. F or more i...
Tracking SF’s coyotes from the Presidio to Bernal Hill
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Tracking SF’s coyotes from the Presidio to Bernal Hill
Max Brimelow and Miki Katoni track coyotes traveling in the Bernal Hill area and elsewhere in San Francisco. They also follow Jonathan Young, a wildlife ecologist with the Presidio Trust. Young is doc...
For the Love of Penguins
For the Love of Penguins
Have you ever wondered how the African penguins at the California Academy of Sciences find a mate? Take a behind the scenes tour of the museum to meet adorable penguin chicks and see how their parents...
Mycelium Youth Network
Mycelium Youth Network
Mycelium Youth Network trains youth in both climate adaptation and mitigation. Its Gaming for Justice program provides homebrewed roleplaying campaigns where adventurers use teamwork and problem-solvi...
Bay Area Bountiful: Urban Bobcats
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Bay Area Bountiful: Urban Bobcats
Bobcats in the city? Shravan Sundaram has the evidence: stunning images he has captured of the elusive felines living as our neighbors in very close proximity. A wildlife photographer and environmenta...
Independence Day
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Independence Day
Have you ever come across a sick or injured bird and not known what to do? Since the 1970’s, The Bird Rescue Center of Sonoma County has taken in injured birds and helped them recover so they can be r...
Walk on the Wild Side
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Walk on the Wild Side
Take a "Walk on the Wild Side" with Dutch photographer Jouko van Der Kruijssen as he captures images of wildlife in and around San Francisco. (Producer-Director: Joshua Dylan Mellars)
Bay Area Bountiful: Student Environmental Film Festival
Bay Area Bountiful: Student Environmental Film Festival
On this edition of BAY AREA BOUNTIFUL, we present a student environmental film festival. First, we learn about the crisis of plastic in the world’s oceans, then we explore how increasing regulation an...
The Basket Weavers
The Basket Weavers
The Pomo basket-weaving tradition in Northern California has been passed down for generations. But development projects and the encroachment of invasive non-native plant species continue to threaten t...
Preserving Traditions
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Preserving Traditions
On this edition of Bay Area Bountiful, we explore some of the traditions of native people and their relationship to the environment. First, we visit Sonoma County where Pomo basket weavers are preserv...
Bay Area Bountiful: Makers
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Bay Area Bountiful: Makers
On this edition of Bay Area Bountiful, we bring you the creations of Makers. First, we’ll step into the workshop of modern day luthiers, hand crafting works of art using sustainably sourced materials....
Close Encounters of a Virtual Kind
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Close Encounters of a Virtual Kind
Take a virtual journey to visit sheep, giraffe, goats, cheetahs, antelope, flamingos, lemurs, rhinoceros, zebra and other animals. Filmmaker Joshua Dylan Mellars talks with the animals' caretakers to...
Swimming Upstream
Swimming Upstream
The endangered coho salmon that inhabit the Russian River watershed are fighting for their survival. What threat do recent California wildfires pose to these fish and what are conservationists doing t...
Scientists to the Rescue
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Scientists to the Rescue
Our world is facing a host of complex challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic and climate change. Can science come to our rescue? We visit the California Academy of Sciences, Monterey Bay Aquarium...
The Ocean Planet
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The Ocean Planet
What is it like to take a deep dive below the ocean’s surface? In this video we dive into the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Kelp Forest Exhibit to explore this essential marine ecosystem and then journey fr...
The Ocean Planet Short Story
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The Ocean Planet Short Story
Take a dive in the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Kelp Forest Exhibit to learn the pivotal role this ecosystem plays for our planet. (Producer-Director: Joshua Dylan Mellars)
Scientists to the Rescue Short Story
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Scientists to the Rescue Short Story
Scientists are working hard to meet a variety of global challenges. Learn more about the important work being carried out at the California Academy of Sciences to combat the Coronavirus Pandemic. (Pro...
Possums Short Story
Possums Short Story
For over 30 years the Wildlife Education and Rehabilitation Center -- known as "W-E-R-C "-- has been rescuing injured local wildlife and nursing them back to health in Morgan Hill. Among the most char...
Baby Goats Short Story
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Baby Goats Short Story
Celebrating Spring, Bay Area Bountiful visited Redwood Hill Farm and their herd of happy dairy goats. Yes, baby goats are as cute and as lovable as they look, and you can come play with them too! Prod...
Counting Sheep Short Story
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Counting Sheep Short Story
Full Circle Wool, a grazing operation run by shepherd Marie Hoff, uses a flock of primitive sheep to graze cover crop on agricultural lands, as well as reduce wildfire fuels around small properties. W...
CALFIRE's battle with the CZU Lightning Complex Fires Short Story
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CALFIRE's battle with the CZU Lightning Complex Fires Short Story
CZU Unit Fire Chief Ian Larkin recounts the harrowing development of the Santa Cruz Mountain fires of 2020, and cites changes in climate as a main contributing factor.
Pescadero's Puente Short Story
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Pescadero's Puente Short Story
Social services agency Puente de la Costa Sur in Pescadero was uniquely qualified to assist with San Mateo County's emergency services during the CZU Lightning Complex Fires of 2020. Executive Directo...
San Vicente Redwoods Short Story
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San Vicente Redwoods Short Story
San Vicente Redwoods is a large tract of protected land near Bonny Doon in northwestern Santa Cruz County. Managed by four partner land trusts it was profoundly impacted by the 2020 CZU Lightning Comp...
Fire Stewardship with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Short Story
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Fire Stewardship with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Short Story
Amah Mutsun Tribal Chair Val Lopez and CSU Chico's Don Hankins explain the vital potential that controlled burning has, both in terms of the health of California's wildlands and its indigenous people....
Bay Area Bountiful: People Power
Bay Area Bountiful: People Power
Northern California is home to a diverse array of grassroots organizations and individuals who are striving to change our world for the better. On this episode of Bay Area Bountiful, we explore People...
Veggielution Short Story
Veggielution Short Story
For years, San Jose's Eastside neighborhoods have been underserved and misunderstood, cut off from the rest of the City by both physical and cultural barriers. But nestled right underneath the massive...
Drought and Cattle Ranching Short Story
Drought and Cattle Ranching Short Story
Carissa Koopmann Rivers, a fifth generation cattle rancher, runs her operation, Rivers Red Angus, at Curry Canyon Ranch in the hills of Mount Diablo in collaboration with a conservation organization –...
Three Ocean Advocates: Inspiring Change - Tess Felix
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Three Ocean Advocates: Inspiring Change - Tess Felix
After a major storm, Tess Felix found Stinson Beach, her local beach in California, covered in plastic debris, making her aware of the magnitude of the plastic pollution in the ocean. Tess’s art form...
Three Ocean Advocates: Inspiring Change - Dick Ogg
Three Ocean Advocates: Inspiring Change - Dick Ogg
Living and fishing in the Bodega Bay area for 55 years, Dick is forced to confront the realities of a warming ocean, the creation of a Marine Projected Area in the local fishing grounds, and derelict...
Three Ocean Advocates: Inspiring Change - Barbara Crites
Three Ocean Advocates: Inspiring Change - Barbara Crites
Barbara has documented the harming effects of the warming oceans and has seen first-hand bleaching coral, bacterial diseases, loss of fish habitat and more. For the past 10 years while snorkeling arou...
South Bay Water Savings Short Story
South Bay Water Savings Short Story
Like the rest of the Bay Area, Santa Clara County is facing a serious lack of water this year. Valley Water is the agency tasked with providing this valuable resource to everyone. We hear from Deputy...
Growing Food During a Drought Short Story
Growing Food During a Drought Short Story
Front Porch Farm in Healdsburg, CA is located right next to the Russian River, and during this drought period, their water was shut off to maintain water levels and the health of the river. So how do...
Agricultural Workers and Poor Air Quality Short Story
Agricultural Workers and Poor Air Quality Short Story
Late summer is grape harvest season in Sonoma County, an extremely important time for Sonoma County’s billion dollar wine industry. Unfortunately, now, because of climate change, harvest coincides wit...
Bay Area Bountiful: Hazy Daze - Bay Area Air Quality
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Bay Area Bountiful: Hazy Daze - Bay Area Air Quality
More wildfires and higher temperatures combine to produce more days with poor air quality throughout our region. Bay Area Bountiful visits the Bay area Air Quality Management District to learn about t...
Brightline Defense Air Quality Short Story
Brightline Defense Air Quality Short Story
Executive Director Eddie Ahn of Brightline Defense is a passionate advocate for the underserved of San Francisco. We climb up to the roof with he and his team as they install an air quality sensor nea...
San Jose Aiport Pollutants Survey Short Story
San Jose Aiport Pollutants Survey Short Story
Neighbors who live near San Jose's Reid-Hillview Airport have been living with noise and air pollution for many years. Now a new study commissioned by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has f...
Bay Area Bountiful: Life Underground – Bay Area Soil Health
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Bay Area Bountiful: Life Underground – Bay Area Soil Health
In this edition of Bay Area Bountiful, we dig below Earth’s surface to get the dirt on what it takes to make healthy soils. We learn about the impacts of soil salinity, why composting and carbon seque...
Earthworms and Vermicompost Short Story
Earthworms and Vermicompost Short Story
Jack Chambers co-founded the Sonoma Valley Worm Farm a quarter of a century ago after a surprising discovery in his home garden's compost bin. The composting worms he had bought from a local bait worm...
Compost and Carbon Sequestration Short Story
Compost and Carbon Sequestration Short Story
Kevin Lunny founded West Marin Compost after realizing the local need to recycle organic materials from the area into nutrient-rich and biologically active soil amendments which could be placed right...
Carbon Farming and Ranching Short Story
Carbon Farming and Ranching Short Story
Loren Poncia discovered the powers of carbon sequestration after partnering with the Marin Carbon Project a decade ago. After learning from the environmental stewardship program, Poncia has continued...
The Soil Food Web Short Story
The Soil Food Web Short Story
Dr. Sajeemas "Mint" Pasakdee is a University of California Cooperative Extension master gardener. Her passion is studying the amazing microscopic world of the soil food web: the complex interaction of...
Western Monarch Butterflies Bounce Back from Verge of Extinction | Bay Area Bountiful
Western Monarch Butterflies Bounce Back from Verge of Extinction | Bay Area Bountiful
Every year, volunteer citizen scientists return to the California Coast to participate in the Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count. Their work observing and counting monarch butterflies at hundreds of o...
Monarch Butterflies Make Miraculous Population Rebound | Bay Area Bountiful
Monarch Butterflies Make Miraculous Population Rebound | Bay Area Bountiful
Every year, volunteer citizen scientists return to the California Coast to participate in the Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count. Their work observing and counting monarch butterflies at hundreds of o...
Winter Bird Observing with Alex Cho | Bay Area Bountiful
Winter Bird Observing with Alex Cho | Bay Area Bountiful
Teen Alex Cho is an avid East Bay birder, photographer and artist who says birdwatching is contagious. His parents Brenda and Richard concur, as they have joined son Alex on many outings. Bay Area Bou...
Winter Bird Observing with Alvaro Jaramillo | Bay Area Bountiful
Winter Bird Observing with Alvaro Jaramillo | Bay Area Bountiful
Some may think winter is a quiet time for nature in the Bay Area. SF Bay Bird Observatory biologist and lifelong birder Alvaro Jaramillo has news for them: during wintertime in our region the bird pop...
Finding Fungi in the Wintertime | Bay Area Bountiful
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Finding Fungi in the Wintertime | Bay Area Bountiful
When winter rains fall, life that was dormant underground begins to make its appearance. Mushrooms pop up all over our region – from the forest floor to your own backyard! In this story, we followed a...
Identifying a Death Cap Mushroom Could Save Your Life | Bay Area Bountiful
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Identifying a Death Cap Mushroom Could Save Your Life | Bay Area Bountiful
The death cap is California’s most notable poisonous mushroom. While it’s safe to touch and smell, the death cap causes severe poisonings each year, some deadly, when people misidentify and then eat t...
Winter Bird Observing | Bay Area Bountiful
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Winter Bird Observing | Bay Area Bountiful
During the winter season the Bay Area plays an important role for birds. At this time, bird watchers all around our region migrate to their favorite viewing spots to marvel at the increased numbers of...
Hunting for Wintertime Fungi in Sonoma County | Bay Area Bountiful
Hunting for Wintertime Fungi in Sonoma County | Bay Area Bountiful
When winter rains fall, life that was dormant underground begins to make its appearance. Mushrooms pop up all over our region – from the forest floor to your own backyard! In this story, we followed a...
Cool Petaluma
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Cool Petaluma
In Petaluma, residents are building a planet-friendly community, block-by-block. For more information visit: https://www.coolpetaluma.org Video producer: Jeremy Jue
Bay Area Bountiful: Changemakers and Trailblazers
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Bay Area Bountiful: Changemakers and Trailblazers
On this edition of Bay Area Bountiful, we’ll explore environmental justice through the eyes of three local advocates and learn how they’re actively uplifting the next generation through access and edu...
Bay Area Bountiful: Greener Power
Bay Area Bountiful: Greener Power
Embracing cutting edge technology for years, the Bay Area helps set the standard for sustainable practices around the world. Advancements in the area of alternative energy production – geothermal, win...
Changemaker & Trailblazer: Dr. Alyssa Griffin
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Changemaker & Trailblazer: Dr. Alyssa Griffin
Meet Dr. Alyssa Griffin! Dr. Griffin is the principal investigator of the Coastal Health and Near-shore Geochemistry Laboratory. She uses marine geochemistry to study changing ecosystems, build climat...
Changemaker & Trailblazer: Violet Saena
Changemaker & Trailblazer: Violet Saena
Meet Violet! Violet Saena is the founder and executive director of Climate Resilient Communities. CRC is a nonprofit that works within the communities of Belle Haven, East Palo Alto, and North Fair Oa...
Bay Area Bountiful: Alcatraz Cruises
Bay Area Bountiful: Alcatraz Cruises
Alcatraz City Cruises operates their fleet of hybrid electric powered vessels in an effort to greatly reduce their emissions of greenhouse gasses on San Francisco Bay. Solar panels and wind turbines o...
Bay Area Bountiful: California Native Plants
Bay Area Bountiful: California Native Plants
For years, the California Native Plant Society has been working in the field, online, in meeting rooms, and in gardens to promote the health of indigenous flora. We join them at their recent conferenc...
Bay Area Bountiful: Caltrain
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Bay Area Bountiful: Caltrain
Passengers have ridden the train from San Jose to San Francisco since before the turn of the 20th Century. Now, commuters are looking forward to traveling with reduced greenhouse gas emissions when Ca...
Bay Area Bountiful: Local Heroes Who Give Back (Pt. 1)
Bay Area Bountiful: Local Heroes Who Give Back (Pt. 1)
This month on Bay Area Bountiful is the first episode of a three-part series where we celebrate and learn from farm-to-community leaders, champions of agricultural biodiversity and regenerative food p...
Bay Area Bountiful: Getting Loud for the Climate!
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Bay Area Bountiful: Getting Loud for the Climate!
Young activists with Citizens’ Climate Lobby San Mateo take to the streets to spread their message to the community: It’s time to get loud for the climate! For more information: https://citizensclimat...
Bay Area Bountiful: Makers & Heroes, Part 3 – Alice Waters
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Bay Area Bountiful: Makers & Heroes, Part 3 – Alice Waters
This month Bay Area Bountiful continues its 3-part series featuring the people who work for environmental sustainability, food justice, and food education in our communities. On this episode we spotli...
Bay Area Bountiful: The Center for Ecoliteracy
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Bay Area Bountiful: The Center for Ecoliteracy
This month on Bay Area Bountiful we visit Peterson Middle School, where the staff has teamed up with The Center for Ecoliteracy. Together, through transformational experiences in the cafeteria, classr...
Prepare Yourself! Episode 1 Flood
Prepare Yourself! Episode 1 Flood
NorCal Public Media is proud to present the first episode of a five-part series called Prepare Yourself! Together with the Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management, through a grant from the U....
Prepare Yourself! Earthquake and Tsunami
Prepare Yourself! Earthquake and Tsunami
NorCal Public Media is proud to present a five-part series called Prepare Yourself! Together with the Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management, through a grant from the U.S. Department of Home...
Bay Area Bountiful: Greener Cement
Bay Area Bountiful: Greener Cement
The California Dept. of Transportation (CalTrans), Peninsula state senator Josh Becker, and the California-Nevada Cement Association explain recent efforts to reduce carbon emissions by the cement man...
Atmospheric Rivers
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Atmospheric Rivers
The meteorological phenomenon known as Atmospheric Rivers has a significant impact on the frequency and severity of floods and droughts in the North Bay. Advanced forecasting techniques currently bein...
Bay Area Bountiful: State Street Market
Bay Area Bountiful: State Street Market
Tear it down or fix it up? When an old building in downtown Los Altos needed renovation, owner Los Altos Community Investments engaged architectural firm Gensler to devise a plan that had environmenta...
Bay Area Bountiful: Fisher Creek Women
Bay Area Bountiful: Fisher Creek Women
When a group of female environmentalists from Point Blue Conservation Science and Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority get together to plant native flora along a creek bank in Coyote Valley, the co...
Minute with Matt: Sticky Monkey-Flower & Dusty-Footed Woodrat
Minute with Matt: Sticky Monkey-Flower & Dusty-Footed Woodrat
That orange flower by the trail has a lot to offer, and that pile of sticks is not just a pile of sticks! Naturalist Matt Dolkas runs face-first into the lesser known details of sticky monkeyflower an...
Minute with Matt: Wetlands
Minute with Matt: Wetlands
Get your feet wet and explore some wetlands! Along with providing habitat for fascinating local wildlife, these areas perform a crucial job that helps moderate climate change, called carbon sequestrat...
Minute with Matt: Monarch Butterflies
Minute with Matt: Monarch Butterflies
It’s amazing what you can see if you look—Matt shares a newly emerged western monarch butterfly he has found, and whispers in reverence as it gathers strength. Areas that are preserved for wildlife li...
Prepare Yourself! Wildfire - Evacuations
Prepare Yourself! Wildfire - Evacuations
On the fourth episode of Prepare Yourself! we explore how to prepare for wildfire evacuations. We cover how to prepare your home before evacuating, what kinds of clothes will protect you from heat dur...
I'm a Burner
I'm a Burner
Trina Cunningham, a member of the Mountain Maidu tribe in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, continues the wisdom of her elders about fire by teaching a small group of non-native wild land fighters...
Connect The Bay: San Mateo County Parks Spanish Outreach
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Connect The Bay: San Mateo County Parks Spanish Outreach
Raquel Henriquez is Bilingual Community Engagement intern for San Mateo County Parks. She spends her days making sure that all in the Spanish-speaking communities of the county feel welcome—since the...
Minute with Matt: Poison Oak
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Minute with Matt: Poison Oak
Naturalist Matt Dolkas gives tips on how to identify everyone’s least favorite plant and what to do if you get the rash. For more information visit Peninsula Open Space Trust, openspacetrust.org
Bay Area Bountiful: East Bay Monarchs
Bay Area Bountiful: East Bay Monarchs
Founder and Chief Scientist at Creekside Science, biologist Dr. Stu Weiss is passionate about preserving Bay Area habitat for migrating monarch butterflies. We visit the returning monarchs at some of...
Bay Area Bountiful: The Fox Guy
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Bay Area Bountiful: The Fox Guy
For more than 10 years Bill Leikam has been keeping track of the small and elusive gray foxes at the Palo Alto Baylands. The goal of his nonprofit Urban Wildlife Research Project is to identify and re...
Connect the Bay: SLAC National Lab
Connect the Bay: SLAC National Lab
Connect the Bay takes a tour of longtime Peninsula landmark, the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) National Accelerator Laboratory. At this unique research facility, scientists explore how the univer...
Questions & Conversation: Drought is Here (Subtítulos en español disponibles)
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Questions & Conversation: Drought is Here (Subtítulos en español disponibles)
NorCal Public Media, in partnership with Sonoma Water, presented a live interactive special program that explores the continuing drought in the Bay Area. Despite recent record breaking rainfall, the B...
Bay Area Bountiful: Winter Wild
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Bay Area Bountiful: Winter Wild
Season six of Bay Area Bountiful brings you to the wild side of winter in our first episode, Winter Wild. In the next edition of Bay Area Bountiful, discover how the changing season impacts the natura...
Wine Harvest and Fire Season Means Bad Air for Agricultural Workers
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Wine Harvest and Fire Season Means Bad Air for Agricultural Workers
Late summer is grape harvest season in Sonoma County, an extremely important time for Sonoma County’s billion dollar wine industry. Unfortunately, now, because of climate change, harvest coincides wit...
Bay Area Bountiful Short Story 3-2
Bay Area Bountiful Short Story 3-2
We met Mac McDonald in his family garden in Windsor. The son of a moonshiner, Mac was first introduced to wine at the age of twelve. At that young age he had a vision of becoming a winemaker and has h...
Bay Area Bountiful Short Story 3-5
Bay Area Bountiful Short Story 3-5
In 2020, Brianna Noble founded Humble, an Oakland-based equine program dedicated to positively impacting youth from disenfranchised communities. Through enriching learning experiences, Humble uses hor...
Bay Area Bountiful Short Story 3-1
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Bay Area Bountiful Short Story 3-1
Cascade Ranch is a 418-acre farm just north of Pie Ranch in the ancestral homeland of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. Under the leadership of Leonard Diggs, the Cascade Regenerator Program plans to creat...
Bay Area Bountiful: Tracking Wildlife
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Bay Area Bountiful: Tracking Wildlife
Bay Area naturalists are hot on the trail of our local animal residents to better understand their movements and figure out ways to protect them. We learn about the landmark preservation accomplishmen...
Grow Rules
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Grow Rules
Pedro Cota and Kristen Hwang explore the dark side of some marijuana cultivation. Illegal growers are diverting water and using banned pesticides, leading to the environmental destruction of our land...
Bay Area Bountiful: Sustainable Landscapes
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Bay Area Bountiful: Sustainable Landscapes
The already arid climate of Northern California is further challenged by the effects of climate change, and even native plants are struggling to survive. When we implement smart landscaping practices,...
Border Air
Border Air
Pedro Cota uncovers a story at the intersection of immigration and environmental health. Long lines of cars and trucks queue up awaiting permission to pass through the busy Tijuana/San Diego border cr...
The Last Straw
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The Last Straw
Julian Jordan presents a jarring short film that expresses the problems, causes, and effects of plastic pollution in our oceans. We explore the complex issues behind ocean pollution through the views...
The Center for Environmental Reporting
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The Center for Environmental Reporting
NorCal Public Media has made a commitment to cover the environmental issues that impact our lives and our world. Listen to Bay Area news reports and our national social justice podcast Living Downstre...
Are Gray Whales the Canary in the Climate Coal Mine?
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Are Gray Whales the Canary in the Climate Coal Mine?
NorCal Public Media explores the mystery of Gray Whales washing up on California beaches. Locals and tourists marvel at the yearly northward migration of the Gray Whales, which occurs every spring. Bu...
The New Environmentalists - From Guatemala to The Congo
The New Environmentalists - From Guatemala to The Congo
The New Environmentalists share a common goal - safeguarding the Earth's natural rescources from exploitation and pollution, while fighting for justice in their own communities. The film is the latest...
The Earth Laughs in Flowers
The Earth Laughs in Flowers
The farmers at Coyote Family Farm are among a new generation who see farming as a combination of spiritual practice, political act, community engagement and art form. Selling their fresh produce weekl...
Bay Area Bountiful: Transportation
Bay Area Bountiful: Transportation
Explore transportation options to protect the environment. A unique food distribution trucking company looks for technological solutions to reduce emissions; a San Mateo organization seeks to promote...
Bay Area Bountiful: Watersheds
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Bay Area Bountiful: Watersheds
On this edition of Bay Area Bountiful, we explore watersheds. First we’ll discover the science of watershed regions; next, we’ll explain how to best manage riparian corridors for water quality; and th...
Bay Area Bountiful
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Bay Area Bountiful
Cultivate. Celebrate. Connect. The San Francisco Bay Area enjoys an incredible bounty of resources—both natural and creative—that enrich all our lives. Northern California Public Media presents the st...
Lexicon of Sustainability - Water
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Lexicon of Sustainability - Water
Agriculture depends on water, but in many parts of the world water is a scarce resource. Effectively managing watersheds helps farmers preserve their farms while protecting the environment; while new...
Lexicon of Sustainability - GMOs
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Lexicon of Sustainability - GMOs
GMOs are Genetically Modified Organisms. They are created when scientists take the DNA from one plant species and add it to the DNA of another. It is likely that GMOs are in what you eat and what you...
Friends of the Petaluma River
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Friends of the Petaluma River
Friends of the Petaluma River improve watershed stewardship through public events and hands-on youth education programs. Produced by KRCB North Bay Public Media's Student Reporting Initiative, with su...
Sonoma Ecology Center
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Sonoma Ecology Center
The Sonoma Ecology Center is committed to improving the ecological health of our region’s wild spaces. Friends of the Petaluma River improve watershed stewardship through public events and hands-on yo...
Daily Acts
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Daily Acts
Daily Acts helps people live more sustainably by reclaiming the power of daily actions through smart landscaping and water conservation. Produced by KRCB North Bay Public Media's Student Reporting Ini...

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