North Bay Report Podcast
Social change doesn’t require songs to empower it, but having them has often helped. For much of American history, music has demonstrated a consistent power to unify movements and effect change. But, is this still true? Occupy Sonoma County is hosting David Walls in a teach-in Monday evening at the Peace and Justice Center in …
Continue reading “Singing The Revolution – September 16, 2016”
A doctor at Marin General wants it to be the state’s first hospital to openly offer medical marijuana treatment. Earlier this week, Marin General Hospital took a first tentative step toward becoming California’s first public medical center to openly allow patients to use medicinal cannabis. KRCB’s Tiffany Camhi was at the hospital’s governing board meeting …
Continue reading “Marin General Considers Medical Marijuana Use – September 15, 2016”
Decreasing biodiversity may be hard to see, but in some wild places, even here in Sonoma County, it can clearly be heard. Audio ecologist Bernie Krause has been capturing the sounds of the natural world for decades. But the changes he hears in those recordings now carry a clear and worrisome message. Bernie Krause talks …
Continue reading “Audible Evidence of Climate Change – September 14, 2016”
Local history does not have to be a dull, dry presentation, as a polished new video history of Santa Rosa demonstrates. A well-known quote from Luther Burbank provides the title for “Santa Rosa: The Chosen Spot of all the Earth.” And most of the rest of the concise new video history of the city is …
Continue reading “Making Local History Entertaining – September 12, 2016”
Not just people but animals, large and small, sometimes need rescuing. And it takes special training to know how to do that. A local group is dedicated to providing that training. HALTER, the Horse And Livestock Team Emergency Response project, got started about three years ago, to provide training to fire and rescue workers on …
Continue reading “HALTER Honored for Emergency Prep Efforts- September 13, 2016”
Carl Hiaasen’s satiric novels of South Florida may be hard to categorize, but they are easy to enjoy. Carl Hiaasen’s latest novel mocks reality TV, restaurant inspection standards, product liability lawyers, and beach restoration opportunists. But it’s all draw from reality in contemporary south Florida. Carl Hiaasen will talk about writing and his latest book …
Continue reading “Keeping Fiction Stranger Than Reality – September 9, 2016”
She may be a lone voice in the wilderness, but Katrina Blair is an undaunted defender of weeds. Herbalists have long recognized numerous and varied medicinal uses for many of the plants we think of as weeds. But that’s not all they are good for, argues Katrina Blair, Durango, Colorado ‘s defender of wild weeds. …
Continue reading “‘The Wild Wisdom of Weeds’ – September 8, 2016”
Nowhere in Nature, says John Valenzuela, is biodiversity more colorful and delicious than in the realm of rare and exotic fruits. The Heirloom Expo, a colorful celebration of old, rare, exotic and bountiful produce, returned to the fairgrounds in Santa Rosa yesterday, with scores of vendors and nearly as many speakers. We hear from one …
Continue reading “The Role of Exotic Fruits in Biodiversity – September 7, 2016”
A new production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet finds a home at Petaluma Adobe State Park. Bay Area theater company We Players is known for immersing their audience into the scenes and actions of their plays – often at State and National Parks. In their new production of Romeo and Juliet the company transforms …
The huge toxic algae bloom that forced a costly delay on last year’s crab season was due to conditions that won’t repeat this year. Probably. As a weak salmon season follows the closure of much of last year’s crab season, the beleaguered north coast fishing fleet is hoping for better conditions this winter. And they’re …
Continue reading “Better Prospects for 2016 Dungeness Crab Season – September 2, 2016”