Hiking gets me out of my head and into the wonders of nature. Today I noticed the fabulous color pop of this pale green moth against the bright orangey-red of manzanita bark, and moments like this center and give me resilience...
Read MoreMeatless & Happy Ally Daly, Berkeley About four years ago, I committed to a vegetarian diet. The choice to drastically reduce my carbon footprint seemed like a no-brainer, given that I already wasn’t a huge fan of most meat....
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An osprey atop a transmission tower watches as a few dozen people meander out to the edge of the San Rafael waterfront along a narrow levee path. On one side are the marshes and mudflats where the San Rafael creek meets the San Francisco Bay, the osprey’s hunting territory. On the other are townhomes, densely packed on a flat spit of land jutting out into the Bay.
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O A K L A N D : D A M O N S L O U G H Communities Confront Water and Gentrification in the...
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Madeleine King is on the water several times a week. Tanned and fit, she’ll step atop her board at 101 Surf Sports and soon disappear down the San Rafael Canal, paddling with gusto toward its mouth and the San Francisco Bay.
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