Thank you readers, contributors, and champions of Way Out West, but after a great year, the website is on indefinite hiatus. Both Alison and Victoria have found that juggling paid careers, families, and WOW to be more work than two people could do. We remain hopeful that someone with a passion for environmental journalism...
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The California Energy Commission has accused wind turbine manufacturing company, DyoCore Inc., of misrepresenting the performance of a small wind turbine in order to qualify the product for a state rebate.
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The Chronicle’s Tara Duggan is doing a great series on small-scale farms. She delves into efforts by the USDA to encourage “new farmers to get in the field.”
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A two-day, invite-only conference to flesh out California Governor Jerry Brown’s plans to reach 20,000 MW of new renewable energy in the state by 2020 began today. With the budget fight behind him, Brown says clean energy is his first priority.
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As Congress wrestles over the national debt, funding for California’s ambitious statewide high-speed rail system is on the chopping block. House Republicans have removed all monies for the project and reports from a panel reviewing the plan have questioned the viability of its business plan.
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The endangered leatherback sea turtle enjoyed a huge conservation victory this week. The hulking, jellyfish-eating reptile will be protected in ocean waters off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington due to a settlement filed by the National Marine Fisheries Service and conservation groups.
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For 35 years Janet Kessler has lived in San Francisco and been an avid early morning walker, exploring the city’s parks with her dogs and observing the busy transition between night and day for urban wildlife.
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PG&E is in for another spate of public criticism. This time it will be over the utility’s new usage rates, which were approved by regulators on Thursday. Homeowners consuming the most electricity will pay less per kilowatt hour than they did previously, causing critics to accuse PG&E of incentivizing wasteful energy habits. Still, the...
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Nature photographers should check out this photo essay of Bay Area shooter Steven Christenson’s nighttime photos taken in Fremont. He discusses technique and is co-founder of the Bay Area Night Photography group. Pretty amazing. QUEST on KQED Public Media.
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This morning on KQED’s Forum two topics close to WOW readers’ hearts are under discussion. First the impact of the California state park closures, followed by a look at the state’s embattled high-speed rail plans. Listen to the latter live right here: http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/
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