An innovative recycling start-up hopes to make the most of “wish-cycling” – the practice where people try to recycle things like prescription bottles, bread tags, and even ballpoint pens, with no evidence you can recycle them. Early mornings, when Juan Lopez heads to his truck ready to start the day, he already feels inspired by …
More than 100 years ago, wild winter-run Chinook salmon from the icy cold McCloud River ended up in the glacially cold mountain waters of New Zealand, where they continue to thrive today. The quest to bring these ancestral fish back home continues, thanks to a $3.3 million grant from the California Department of Fish …
REDWOOD CITY — Californians throw about 40 million tons of trash into landfill each year, including gadgets, electronics, appliances, toys and items that no longer work. On the Peninsula, an army of volunteers is showing people that they have the power to fix it. The Redwood City Public Library on the corner of Jefferson Avenue …
BERKELEY — On a busy street corner in South Berkeley, a small-scale revolution is taking root. Instead of pavement or a manicured lawn there’s a dense little pocket of native plants and saplings that are flourishing in rich soil in front of the Berkeley Technology Academy. It’s called a Miyawaki or micro-forest. “They grow much …