Published: August, 2009
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Around the bay in August
Published: August, 2009 Take the Soul Train to Oakland On August 15 and 16, the City of Oakland will present the Ninth Annual Art & Soul Oakland. Thanks to guaranteed stellar lineups, abundant parking, easy BART access and the bargain price of just $10 per day, Art & Soul Oakland has been named the Bay […]
Preparing for Climate Change in the Bay
By Sejal Choksi, Baykeeper and Program DirectorPublished: August, 2009 In the last 200 years, San Francisco Bay has undergone profound changes, and the health of the Bay has varied dramatically. Before the wave of Gold Rush settlers, for example, the Bay was a vibrant ecosystem teeming with marine life, to the extent that oysters, shrimp […]
Vallejo Ferry Aids in Coast Guard Rescue
Published: August, 2009 The following reports were derived from official Coast Guard New Releases June 30 – Thirty-three people were rescued from a vessel taking on water in the vicinity of Suisun Bay by the Coast Guard, Contra Costa Sherriff’s Department, and the Good Samaritan Baylink passenger ferry Intintoli. The San Francisco Coast Guard received […]
Bio Bus Brings Foragers to East Bay
Published: August, 2009 Hop on the TransportedSF biodiesel bus on Sunday, August 9 and head for the East Bay Hills to channel your inner foodie with a day of foraging for wild edibles in the sun. Iso Rabins, the founder of www.foragesf.com, a Community Supoprted Forage, will be the guide as you search out […]
The City of Vallejo Celebrates 23 Years of Ferry Service with Free Day Passes for Monthly Riders
Published: August, 2009 The City of Vallejo and its operating units Vallejo Transit and Baylink, will present a Rider Appreciation Day in September kicking off a 3-day celebration of 23 years of the ferry service from Vallejo to San Francisco. As part of the celebration, and in an effort to promote more ferry usage, […]
WHEN TO SAY WHEN
By Captain RayPublished: August, 2009 This past June, I was teaching a Coastal Passage Making course—a one-week program that involves sailing out the Golden Gate and up and down the California coast. The course gave me an opportunity to teach my students much more than just the particulars of those locations. Typically, we operate […]
Event Producers Strive to Lighten Their Footprint
By Bill PicturePublished: August, 2009 Large-scale events—such as trade shows and music festivals—have historically earned high marks for bolstering local economies and low marks for earth-friendliness. Huge venues filled with tens of thousands of people generally translate into tons and tons of landfill-bound trash, as well as countless watts of electricity consumed. Over the last […]
Mariner of the Seas Completes Series of Calls at Port of San Francisco
Published: August, 2009 Royal Caribbean International’s Mariner of the Seas has successfully completed a series of seven in-transit calls at the Port of San Francisco. During May and June 2009, the 138,279-ton ship, which has a capacity of 3,114 people, diverted from her scheduled cruises between Los Angeles and Mexico and instead ventured north to […]
Oil Spill Captain Gets Prison Sentence
Published: August, 2009 John Joseph Cota, the pilot who caused the Cosco Busan, a 900-foot long container ship, to collide with the Bay Bridge and discharge approximately 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay, was sentenced in July to serve 10 months in federal prison. Cota, who was a licensed bar pilot at […]