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Skyline HS Students, volunteers clean up Oakland estuary
Blog entry by Gene Anderson.
Last updated at Sun, 21 Oct at 12:01pm.

Earlier today, the Student Conservation Association (SCA), Save the Bay, and the East Bay Regional Park District teamed up with students from Skyline High School and other volunteers to clean up part of the Oakland Estuary.

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detain the rain with low cost rain barrels
Blog entry by Gene Anderson.
Last updated at Mon, 20 Feb at 9:48am.

Anyone who's lived in the Bay Area for more than a few years knows we generally have dry summers and wet winters (this winter notwithstanding). But what newer residents may not know about are the occasional fires in the urban/rural interface of the hills. The immediate event is devastating, but the longer-term effects can be devastating, too. Denuded hillsides don't hold the rain, leading to mudslides, and roads and homes destroyed.

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Dimond's Sausal Creek filled with sewage ... again
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Mon, 21 Mar at 8:31am.

Residents around Sausal Creek between the Leimert Bridge and El Centro Avenue in Oakland's Dimond District are worrying because of the huge amount of sewage that has run through the creek in the past week, turning it a poop-filled sewer. 

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Oakland Institute Fellow Jeff Conant reports from People's Climate Summit in Cochabamba
Blog entry by Ryan Van Lenning.
Last updated at Tue, 20 Apr at 3:15am.

Oakland Institute Fellow Jeff Conant, an award winning journalist, is working with Global Justice Ecology Project and a coalition of grassroots groups to deliver daily news from the World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia between April 19th - April 22nd, 2010.

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Greywater installation course kicks off at the Humanist Hall
Article by Ryan Van Lenning.
Last updated at Wed, 24 Mar at 7:19am.

Monday marked the beginning of a week-long greywater installation course at the Humanist Hall. The day was jokingly deemed "Laundry Day." No, not the day to throw dirty clothes in the wash. Rather, the goal was to create a basic and inexpensive system to carry excess water from your washing machine to a drum, then into your yard for irrigation.

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Under the Radar: Event Picks of the Week
Blog entry by Ryan Van Lenning.
Last updated at Fri, 19 Mar at 10:18am.

During this week leading up to the Spring Equinox, find your balance with a mix of cultural, artistic, political, and relaxing events.

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"Ripple Effects" Benefit for Greywater Action on March 20
Blog entry by Meg Bertoni.
Last updated at Tue, 16 Mar at 9:48am.

The first day of spring will present a paean to our most precious resource with "Ripple Effects," an evening of music, art and education about water.

In addition to offering music by Justin Ancheta, Strange Angels Blues Band, Koralie "Sugar" Hill and Walter Ogi Johnson, and artwork by Christina Bertea, Design Action Collective, Doug Minkler, Juana Alicia, Matthew Kertesz, Matlena Hourula, Phoebe Ackley, Street Art Workers and Sven Atema, the event is a benefit for multiple organizations.

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Radical plumbers install greywater systems in East Oakland
Article by Ryan Van Lenning.
Last updated at Tue, 16 Mar at 9:42am.

Visualize for a moment your morning shower. The warm water runs gently and momentarily over you, then falls to the drain. It goes on its merry way to...well, to a place most of us rarely think about. It simply goes "away" after our brief contact with it. Similarly, think about that last load of laundry you did. How much water did it take to complete these mundane tasks and where did it go?

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