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WATER, FLOWERS, AND LIFE

May 28, 2026 | By Julie Wedge

This Water a Flower Day has me reflecting on how lucky I am that my husband has an incredibly green thumb. I can grow food and, in fairness, those plants flower, too. However, the beautiful explosion of colors in our yard all year long must be completely credited to my better half.

The Murky World of Subsistence Fishing in the San Francisco Bay

April 20, 2016 | By Matt Davis

It's 11 am on Sunday April 17 on a wooden pier near the ferry building in downtown San Francisco, and the sun is streaming down on an 80-degree weekend. There aren't many locals around. A teenage couple hold hands on a bench giggling over something on the young man's iPhone, and a family of four

The plastic bag monster on the streets of Oakland

Turn the Tide on Plastic Pollution — Take the Bag Ban Pledge!

April 15, 2016 | By Miriam Gordon

I've been snorkeling all my life, and a few years ago I realized a life-long dream and became certified SCUBA diver. I don't recall ever seeing plastic in the ocean as a kid, and only recall an occasional bag or errant piece of fishing gear in the water when I was a young adult. Then a few years ago

What’s So Great About Oakland, California? (Apart From Everything, Obviously).

April 8, 2016 | By Chris Slafter

Clean Water’s California office is located right in the heart of downtown Oakland—a city that even green-minded Europeans are talking about as a center for reducing carbon emissions associated with commerce. For 21 years, the City of Oakland has organized an annual earth expo in Frank Ogawa Plaza

The author (left) and Waste Prevention Program Associate Dara Rossoff Powell (right), tabling on Wednesday, April 6 at the City of Oakland’s Earth Expo event, downtown.

Protect California's Groundwater From Injection Wells: Pass AB 1882

March 29, 2016 | By Andrew Grinberg

If you’re not looking for anything you’ll never find it. This has held true when it comes to contamination from oil and gas production in California for the last century. But the era of regulators ignoring the industry’s groundwater impacts needs to end. Assembly Bill 1882, introduced by