Environment

Oakland mayoral candidates answer questions and seek votes – by discussing education.

Twenty-five years later, they returned to the site where the earthquake wreaked the most havoc, to remember a day they could never quite forget.

Over 100 zookeepers, animal enthusiasts and conservationists gathered at the Oakland Zoo on Tuesday to attend a lecture by leading giraffe conservation scientist Dr. Julian Fennessy. Fennessy praised the zoo’s giraffe program as promoting “lots of natural behaviors.”

A Bay Area collective, Nerds for Nature (N4N), is trying to bridge the gap between techies and nature enthusiasts by designing low-cost equipment—like underwater robots and eco-drones—used to monitor the environment. Comprised of amateur scientists, engineers, ecologists, environmentalists and GIS professionals, N4N gathers once a month in either Oakland or San Francisco to discuss new Do-It-Yourself projects. Victoria Bogdan, an environment law student, co-founded the group after she noticed a lack of tools designed to protect the environment. “Technologists really…

Church members and neighbors gathered at Skyline Community Church to honor their pets with an annual and unusual gift: a blessing.

What happens to the unused surgical tools from Kaiser Oakland’s operating room? They end up at healthcare agencies such as Roots Community Health Center in Oakland, CA, one of 20 safety net clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area benefitting from MedShare’s medical surplus donations.

Mayor Jean Quan negotiated a deal with Waste Management, CWS, and Oakland City Council. But this is not Waste Management’s first time at the rodeo.

A day on the job with Civicorp’s organic waste collection & training program.

Demolition continues on the 78-year-old Bay Bridge, but officials have not yet solved the issue of how to attract the wildlife that currently nests on the old bridge to the new structure.