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Mark Pasternak of Devil's Gulch Ranch erected the first permitted, electricity generating wind turbine in Marin County. See pictures and hear the story of how it was done.
Play this TV Story Air Date: Aug 25, 2009
If you live in Oakland, how long does it take for sewage to flow from your house, through the EBMUD plant and into the bay?
Play this TV Story Air Date: May 26, 2009
What happens when you flush the toilet? For most of us, what's out of sight is out of mind. But large numbers of sewage spills into San Francisco Bay are forcing cities, water agencies and the public to take a closer look at wastewater and its impacts on the health of the bay.
Play this TV Story Air Date: May 26, 2009
Next month, the Marine Mammal Center in the Marin Headlands opens its doors to the public for the first time in four years. The Center treats sea lions, elephant seals, and other marine mammals that run into trouble along our coast. They swallow fishing lines, get hit by boat propellers and, increasingly, come down with a bacterial infection that scientists say they still don't understand.
Play this Radio Report Air Date: May 25, 2009
You may not think of salmon when visiting Muir Woods, but it's home to endangered Coho Salmon. Meet the volunteers working to restore Redwood Creek and bring back salmon habitat after decades of human influence.
Play this TV Story Air Date: May 11, 2009
Sudden Oak Death is devastating oak forests along the coast, killing trees that are key to the ecology of the coastal hills. Researchers have found a way to inoculate individual trees from the disease, but are struggling in their search to find a more sweeping answer to the threat.
Play this Radio Report Air Date: May 11, 2009
How much sewage makes its way into our water? Plenty. Statewide, it's likely that last year's record number, 20 million gallons of raw sewage dumped in California waterways, is going to be broken this year. Decrepit pipes, lack of money and the growing severity of storms could all add up to a disaster of septic proportions.
Play this Radio Report Air Date: Apr 6, 2009
They spend hours in the mud in search of a tiny snail. Meet the volunteers working with the Bay Institute to eradicate an invasive Japanese mud snail on the shores of San Francisco Bay.
Play this TV Story Air Date: Mar 23, 2009
Photographer Laura Watt has lived in the Bay Area for most of her life but it was not until she started sailing in San Francisco Bay at age 35 that she began to appreciate the patterns, textures and colors of the precious water that surrounds us all. Self-described as "trawler trash," she lives aboard her boat in San Rafael's Loch Lomand Marina, granting her a front row seat to the dynamic body of water that she captures so well in her moody, intimate images.
Play this TV Story Air Date: Mar 17, 2009
By April 1st, the vast majority of California's 11,000 gas stations must have new, state-of-the-art fuel pumps that keep toxic fumes from escaping. State officials say the new pumps mean cleaner, safer air, particularly for those suffering from asthma and other respiratory diseases. But, amid a recession, will the new rules force mom and pop gas stations out of business?
Play this Radio Report Air Date: Mar 16, 2009
California's Lost Salmon/Beyond Bio-Fuels
- Tue, Nov 24 at 7:30PM, on KQED 9HD
- Wed, Nov 25 at 1:30AM, on KQED 9HD
Rocket to the Moon/Tracking Raindrops
- Thu, Nov 26 at 6:30AM, on KQED World
California's Lost Salmon/Beyond Bio-Fuels
- Sat, Nov 28 at 1:30PM, on KQED World
- Sat, Nov 28 at 7:00PM, on KQED World
- Sun, Nov 29 at 1:00AM, on KQED World
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