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Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 11th, 5-6 PM: Give Me Land, Lots of Land in the Santa Clara Valley with Andrea Mackenzie of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
Host Ronnie Lipschutz speaks with Andrea Mackenzie, General Manager of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority. For more than 25 years, Ms. Mackenzie has worked in the fields of land use planning, conservation planning, public policy, and finance for open space...
Housing the Homeless-An Interview with Phil Kramer of Housing Matters
The nonprofit Housing Matters is getting ready to build 120 units of low-income housing for people currently living on the streets who are most at risk of dying as a result. In this wide-ranging conversation about homelessness and income inequality, Phil Kramer talks...
Lions in our Midst-The Santa Cruz Puma Project
When the human world was put in a time-out by the covid lockdown last year, an elusive predator came out of the woods to walk around in our cities; The cougar, a.k.a. puma, wildcat, mountain lion, etc. is afraid of humans, especially human noise and activity. When...
The CA Green New Deal with Ben Eichert
On July 8 Pauline Seales interviewed Ben Eichert of the Romero Institute. The first topic was the scary current science warning - that we may reach 1.5 C of global warming before 2030 - decades sooner than previously predicted and horribly evident through the...
Action for Climate Empowerment – really thinking globally, while acting locally
In this episode of Talk of the Bay, host Len Beyea interviews Nancy Glock-Greunich and Emily Coren, two local ACE leaders, about Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE). Action for Climate Empowerment is a term adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on...
Firewise organizes neighbors for fire safety
As summer heats up and dries out, fire is on everyone’s minds. We hear about the state plans for fire mitigation and how Cal Fire tackles ongoing fires, but what about everyday citizens? It’s easy to feel helpless, especially after last year’s devastating fires in...
Patrick Williams – If Everyone Does A Little….
"I love aphids," Patrick Williams laughingly tells host Mathilde Rand and guest Randa Solick. He takes them on a tour of the garden at his home on a regular lot and shares insightful and, at times, entertaining thoughts about gardening, farming, life, and...
Neighbors Not Hip to HipCamp
What if a bunch of RVs suddenly arrived in your neighbor's yard? They weren't friends, but folks who rented out camping space on HipCamp.com. In Big Sur, residents in tiny areas like Palo Colorado Canyon were upset to find their long-time neighbor using his land as a...
Santa Cruz Shakespeare Shakes Off Covid Blues in New Season
During the past year, live theater took a big hit to its main mission: Live plays to live audiences. Now that things are opening up, find out what Santa Cruz Shakespeare has in store for its new live, outdoor season. Although scaled back from a large production, the...
Equal Access Santa Cruz Promotes Broadband Equity Across the County
On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling speaks with Freny Cooper, Chief Operating Officer of Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, and James Hackett, Director of Business Operations at Cruzio Internet. Inspired by the inequities in access laid bare by the pandemic, MBEP...