EcoNews Report

Becky Chambers, local resident and Hugo Award-winning science fiction author, talks with the Green Gang about her work and her philosophy of science fiction. Her popular Wayfarers series focuses on t…

It’s an environmental news roundup conrnucopia, as Alicia Hamann of Friends of the Eel River joins us to talk about the latest on the Great Redwood Trail and

• The state of play with two fallen billboar…

What do you do when a raccoon is living in the walls of your home? What about when a bird flies into your window? Why do more English majors than science majors volunteer to save wildlife? Bird Ally …

A divided Green Gang looks back at the process that led to the Terra-Gen wind energy project being denied last month, and debates whether or not it should have been. 

What did we learn? Where do we go…

On this week’s episode, Luis Villa, Director of Latino Outdoors, joins the Green Gang to talk about how to make nature a safe, welcoming and inclusive space for all people. Latino Outdoors is a uniqu…

Urbanism is not just for big cities like San Francisco. To keep Humboldt bucolic and pastoral, our urban centers need to grow up and not out. Colin Fiske from the Coalition for Responsible Transporta…

With the recent power shutoffs and the proposed Humboldt Wind Project (RIP), our energy infrastructure has received considerable attention lately. But just how the heck does it work? 

On this week’s e…

You may have noticed it: the bay seems particularly high this time of year. The extreme high tides of winter have a name: King Tides. And they can help illustrate the effects of rising sea levels. 

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Darren Mierau, CalTrout's North Coast Director, joins the Green Gang to bring us up to date on efforts to remove two dams to recover salmon and steelhead runs on California's third largest river. Cal…

Poet Jerry Martien joins the Green Gang in the studio to read poetry inspired by the natural landscapes of Humboldt County. If you have never heard Jerry read his poetry before, you are in for a trea…

Maggie Gainer of Zero Waste Humboldt joins the Green Gang to talk about how and why it's important to reduce our waste stream by reusing, recycling, and - first and foremost - reducing by buying less…

This week, we talk with Cheryl Seidner (Cultural Liaison, Wiyot Tribe), Adam Canter (Natural Resource Specialist, Wiyot Tribe) and Corinne Alton (Wiyot Tribal member) about the wind energy project be…

In this week's episode, the Green Gang talks with Stephen Kullman of the Blue Lake Rancheria and Nancy Stephenson of Redwood Coast Energy Authority about the first annual Electric Vehicle Parade, ele…

Gang Green talks with Pacific Forest Trust VP Paul Mason, veteran of both our own Headwaters Forest fight and more than a decade of lobbying for environmental causes in Sacramento.

• Why just saying no …

On this week’s episode, the Green Gang talks with Jackee Riccio of the CROP Project about trespass cannabis grows —those rascals growing pot on our public lands. With this pot often comes guns, pesti…

On this week’s show, the Green Gang interviews author Jon Humboldt Gates about his new book “Firestorm,” the true life account of living through the 2017 Tubbs Fire. 

Gates is also the author of Falk’…

On this week’s episode, the Green Gang investigates mercury in Humboldt Bay and the Eel River. (Could they be connected?) 

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A new study in the journal Science documents the staggering loss of bird populations in North America — a decline of approximately three billion birds in total over the past 50 years. Local ornitholo…

The Klamath River is now a person with full legal rights under Yurok Tribal Law. Amy Cordalis, General Counsel for the Yurok Tribe, joins the green gang to talk about what this means for the river an…

In this week’s show, the Green Gang discusses Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s attempts to fast track the approval of the Shasta Dam raise, which would benefit Bernhardt’s former client, the West…