EcoNews Report

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 unique Latinx-led organization working to create a national community of leaders in conservation and outdoor education. Started in California, Latino Outdoors is now an international volunteer movement.

Let’s face it: mainstream environmentalism is too white. But that is not because people of color don’t care. (Polling suggests the opposite: that people of color express more protective sentiments on issues like climate change than white people.) Rather, people of color are missing from mainstream environmentalism because they have been excluded. The Green Gang believes that all people have an inherent love of nature. Discovering or reawakening that love requires getting into natural spaces and feeling like you belong there.

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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 Transportation Priorities lays out the case to the Green Gang.

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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 episode, the Green Gang learns how our the grid actually works from Matthew Marshall, executive director of the Redwood Coast Energy Authority. What you learn may shock you.

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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. 

Volunteers are needed to document the high tides and the way sea level rise will impact our bay. Sign up for Humboldt Baykeeper's King Tides Photo Initiative!

And for more info on sea level rise in the Humboldt Bay area, visit Humboldt Baykeeper's website.

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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. CalTrout is one of many groups, including Friends of the Eel River, working to restore the salmon and steelheads runs by removing two dams in the Eel River.

As a member of the Eel River Forum, CalTrout is working with agency, tribal, and conservation partners regarding priority recovery actions and policy reform needed to recover salmonid populations in the Eel River basin, California’s third largest watershed.

For more info, visit the Potter Valley Project website at https://pottervalleyproject.org.

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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 treat, as Jerry’s sonorous voice and crisp lyrical poetry inspires and soothes the soul.

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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 in the first place.

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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 being proposed for Bear River Ridge and Monument Ridge in central Humboldt County. The project was denied by the County Planning Commission, and is headed to the County Board of Supervisors for an appeal hearing on December 16 at the Adorni Center in Eureka.

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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, electric vehicle expo, and Holiday tree lighting. Along the way, we also talk about how the PG&E outages provided a unplanned test of the Blue Lake micro-grid system. (They passed with flying colors.)

Join the Green Gang at the Parade.

Have an EV? Sign up for the parade!

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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 isn’t enough
• How Pacific Forest Trust uses carbon credits and conservation easements to drive better forestry
• Community forests and carbon sequestration
• Protecting California’s water supply
• The disastrous consequences of fire management; the state legislature starts to step up
• And above all, making a big enough difference on the scale and time frame we need to address now.

LINKS

• The Pacific Forest Trust

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