By Kati SchmidtPublished: June, 2011 Taking a break from animal features this month, Aquarium of the Bay’s partner, The Bay Institute, is encouraging individuals to take action against a newly introduced bill that would eliminate or weaken most protections for an already collapsing Bay-Delta ecosystem. Congressman Devin Nunes, the southern San Joaquin Valley Republican lawmaker […]
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Congress Considers Exempting Pesticides from Clean Water Act
Deb Self Published: June, 2011 Much of Baykeeper’s work focuses on strengthening or maintaining clean water laws and regulations related to toxic pollutants and other contaminants capable of compromising the health of San Francisco Bay. We do this work by engaging in policy and regulatory processes, as well as conducting outreach, research and education. When […]
A TRULY AMERICAN CUP
Published: May, 2011 In appreciation of the U.S. Armed Forces, Club Nautique Sailing School and Yacht Charter Company is hosting a sailing regatta in which all branches of the military will be competing on individual boats to claim bragging rights and take home the perpetual trophy. Club Nautique has invited the Navy, Army, Air […]
SAILBOATS AT WORK
By Captain RayPublished: May, 2011 It’s easy to recognize that some vessels plying the waters of San Francisco Bay are work boats. Tugs and barges transport bulk cargos—fuel, gravel, fill, and dredging spoils—cheaply. Tankers arrive almost daily with crude oil for our refineries. Tour boats carry visitors on narrated historical and scenic tours. Ferries shuttle […]
Hiring on the Waterfront
BY BILL PICTUREPublished: May, 2011 Every month, hundreds of men and women file through the hiring hall at the Sailors Union of the Pacific Building in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood hoping to join one of the region’s union-manned ferry crews. After a thorough drug screening, recruits must complete 720 hours of training in […]
BIRD’S EYE VIEW San Francisco 1906, photographed using a kite-mounted camera.
Published: May, 2011 About six weeks after the1906 earthquake and fire devastated the City, George R. Lawrence took this 130-degree panoramic photo from high above San Francisco Bay. Lawrence’s camera was 49 pounds, and he made it airborne by attaching it to 16 linked kites. He activated the shutter with an electric current delivered along […]
Making Clean Air a Reality at the Port of Oakland
BY RONALD LIGHTPublished: May, 2011 The docks. Ships. Rail and trucks. Images of moving cargo readily come to mind when we think of the working waterfront. The Port of Oakland is a busy, bustling hub of cargo transport conveying, among other things, a steady stream of containerized consumer goods from China to distribution warehouses […]
Dutra in the Delta
BY WES STARRATTPublished: May, 2011 For over 100 years, the Dutra companies have been building and maintaining the vital levees in California’s Delta, through which much of California’s water flows en route from the snow-capped Sierras to the Pacific Ocean—with stops along the way to irrigate the state’s thirsty farmland and its thriving cities. Today, […]
Around the bay in May 2011
Published: May, 2011 Not Your Mother’s Garden Party The Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) announces its first-ever Not Your Mother’s Garden Party event, which will be held on Tuesday, May 17. The fundraiser will benefit APC and will take place at Ploughshares Nursery, a nonprofit business enterprise operated by APC. St. George Spirits of Alameda, maker […]
California Exporters Post Best-Ever January
By Patrick BurnsonPublished: May, 2011 The Port of Oakland and the rest of the state were given some good news last month about exports in the year’s first quarter. California’s shippers began 2011 by posting their highest outbound totals ever for the month of January, according to an analysis by Beacon Economics. In the […]