Claudia Angulo stands with her four children outside their home in Orange Cove, California. Angulo says her son Isaac was exposed to toxic levels of the pesticide chlorpyrifos while she was pregnant with him. Ali Budner / Capital Public Radio
Link: http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/08/14/continued-battle-over-pesticide-raises-questions-about-role-of-science-in-regulation/
Photo: Andrew Nixon
Link: http://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/07/11/ditching-diesel-sacramento-schools-test-drive-electric-buses/
Clockwise starting from the lower left: ripe bay fruits; shelled hulls of bay nut; unroasted, shelled bay nuts; bay leaves; roasted bay nuts; bay nut powder; drink made by steeping bay nut powder in hot water. (Photo by Emily Moskal) http://baynature.org/article/how-to-forage-and-prepare-bay-nuts/
A grove of bay laurel trees on a hillside in Marin County's Loma Alta Open Space Preserve above Fairfax. (Photo by Charles Kennard) http://baynature.org/article/taste-bay-laurel/
for Bay Nature Magazine's October print issue
Credit: Andrea Laue | http://www.sparebeauty.com
This (my first non-narrated story) aired on PRI's, The World in August 2016.
(Photo: Andrea Leue, sparebeauty.com)
I've spent 10 years as a radio producer, but this here is my first story published in print! Thanks to Bay Nature Magazine and muralist, Mona Caron.
Link: http://baynature.org/article/ribwort-plantain-grows-three-stories-high-san-francisco/
I was a production assistant on this beautiful documentary from The Kitchen Sisters. Here's what they say about the piece" Mark Dubois, co-founder of Friends of the River, Earth Day and International Rivers Network, began as a river guide who opened up rafting trips to disabled people in the 1970s. Dubois protested the damming and flooding of the Stanislaus River by hiding himself in the river canyon and chaining himself to a rock as the water rose. Katie Lee, born 1919, a former Hollywood starlet, ran the Colorado through Glen Canyon long before it was dammed and in 1955 was the 175th person to run the Grand Canyon. An outspoken conservationist, singer and writer, she has spent her life fighting for rivers. Ken Sleight, now 83, is a long time river and pack guide and activist in southern Utah who fought the damming of Glen Canyon and filling of Lake Powell. An inspiration for Ed Abbey's, Monkey Wrench Gang, Sleight is currently working on the campaign to remove Glen Canyon Dam."
You can listen to the full piece HERE (on The Kitchen Sisters' Sound Cloud Page)
Khaled Almaghafi at his apiary in Richmond, California, just north of Oakland. Photo: Ali Budner
Khaled Almaghafi, an immigrant beekeeper from Yemen, now lives in Oakland, California, but keeps up his family's traditions as civil war tears them down back at home.
Photo: Ali Budner
Since the nuclear disaster in 2011, Fukushimans have been grappling with the question: Is our food safe to eat? Fear and Eating in Fukushima examines how Fukushima residents answer this basic question by walking the line between trust and fear.
Photo: Paige Green
Rebecca Burgess -- activist, natural dyer, and founder of Fibershed -- talks about her wardrobe, entirely sourced from within a 100-mile radius of her home in the San Geronimo Valley, California.
Photo: Colleen McHugh
Growing Home community garden, started by Project Homeless Connect, brings San Francisco's Hayes Valley residents out to grow food alongside their homeless neighbors.
Photo: "Golden Gate Park 07" by Superchilum - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
City parks don't just make themselves. They have to be planned and created, sometimes built into the map of a city, sometimes carved out as an afterthought. How does it work? One city planner offers historical insight.
Photo by The Luggage Store Gallery.
The Tenderloin is an unlikely place for a park, let alone a forest. But the Tenderloin National Forest - an urban alleyway turned peaceful art garden - makes space for redwood trees, fish ponds, hummingbirds, and grateful neighbors.
Photo: Celeste Lindhall
The annual bicycle music festival is rolling! Pedal-powered... everything. Opera included.