Time to talk climate change! How are Contra Costa cities doing? Why bother to rank them (other than for the fun of it)? And of course,...

We visit the Bay Area Bike Swap Festival, which took place at Heather Farm Park in Walnut Creek on May 6. You'll be impressed with the...

Since the very first Earth Day in 1970 to the 50th anniversary event (digital because of the pandemic) in 2020, it has been the...

We love waste! In this episode, we tour the sewage processing plant of the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District. But wait - there's...

These amazing creatures were once rare; now they are showing up in creeks all over California. The California Department of Fish and...

We've done two episodes on rooftop solar. But what about those of us who don't have available sunny roof space? How do we get clean...

Where Walnut Creek -the stream, not the town - meets Suisun Bay, it is getting a new life. After many years as a sad, diked and silted,...

The rooftop solar world is in flux. In our second episode on solar electric, we continue our conversation with Pat Villano and Amit Roy...

In this two-part series, we tackle rooftop solar. To learn more, we interview Pat Villano and Amit Roy of Your Energy Solutions (YES)....

For the first in our series on refuse and where it goes, we follow the contents of your recycling bin to the Mount Diablo Resource...

Back in the day, floods were a regular occurrence in Contra Costa. Damming and undergrounding creeks alleviated most flooding, but there...