Environment

The Federal Transit Administration’s Office of Civil Rights will review the social equity aspects of BART’s current projects within the next several months, a process that could lead to further delays or even kill a plan to build an elevated rail connector to the Oakland airport.

On Monday night people came out from around the East Bay to attend the Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) event at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. The event showcased Oakland organizations like Planting Justice, Communitree, Art in Action, People’s Grocery, Something for your Soul catering service, Healthy Hoodz, and Ital Pinay Jewelry. Each addressed the importance of sustainable agriculture and featured the creative ways they are implementing it in their urban communities . “We’re trying to create health and wellness…

On Friday night, more than 50 people crammed into the small narrow studio of the Crucible’s new art studio, the Cathedral Gallery, on Broadway in downtown Oakland. The show, which runs until Dec. 18, displays art ranging from a beautiful clay sculpted statue of a woman to brightly colored neck ties made of glass. The title: eARTh (with an emphasis on art). The art: made from glass, clay, marble, stone and plaster. The price: $50 to $3,000.  Or am I…

The Oakland Green Jobs Corps prepares underprivileged Oakland youth to find eco-friendly careers in a rough economic climate.

On Tuesday, Oakland North was in Rockridge listening to casual carpoolers talk about the closure of the Bay Bridge. Did it forced them to stay home? Seek other modes of transportation?

In Mosswood Park’s community garden, two local businessmen have installed a growing area that displays their new eco-technology. It’s got vegetables, goldfish, and self-contained watering–and it’s set off deep divisions among the neighbors.

UPDATED: 9:00p.m. A still-undetermined amount of oil spilled from the Panamanian-flagged tanker ship the Dubai Star into the San Francisco Bay Friday morning around 6:48 AM, causing an oil slick two miles long and 220 yards wide.

Volunteers did the heavy lifting this weekend as the rooftop of an Oakland middle school was prepped for its winter’s work: growing vegetables to help feed and teach local students and families.

This Saturday, October 24th, North Oakland will join over 4,500 community events will be staged across 181 countries and all seven continents as part of the International Day of Climate Action.