Photo ©Jocelyn Knight
Photo ©Jocelyn Knight
The Weirauch Farm and Creamery is certified organic, Animal Welfare Approved and the couple who run it stand firm on responsible stewardship. But on this tour of the creamery, it wasn't just cheesemaking that fascinated visitors. Continue reading ...
Fresh organic fall fruit and vegetables are now available at the newly opened Marin Community Farm Stand at Tam Junction in Mill Valley. Continue reading ...
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Catching Up with Katie Rice
Supervisor Katie Rice and friend. Photo by Jocelyn Knight
TerraMarin Q&A with the New District Two Supervisor
Katie Rice, former aide to Marin County Supervisor Hal Brown, was appointed by the governor in late October to succeed the long-time District Two representative following his resignation for health reasons. TerraMarin recently sat down with Supervisor Rice to get her take on the new job. Continue reading ...
A Paper Trail of BPA Contamination
Controversial Chemical Used in Everything from Receipts to Food Wrappers, and Recycled Paper Isn't Any Cleaner
California may have banned the use of the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, in baby bottles, but the threat of contamination remains in what we hold in our hands at any given moment.
A new study published in “Environmental Science & Technology,” an American Chemical Society publication, finds that thermal paper products are among the most pervasive carriers of BPA — and cash register receipts are the dirtiest of the lot. Continue reading ...
Fill 'er Up: San Pablo Bay's Oil Waterway
Chevron refinery towers. California Sea Lions ©Suzi Eszterhas
How Much Do You Know About the Refineries in Our Midst?
We need only to look east across San Pablo Bay from the old shrimp-fishing village at San Rafael's China Camp to be reminded that our dependence on oil could exact a high price on what the Bay Area treasures — its natural environment.
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The Roots of Marin's Environmental Activism
Marin's William Kent with naturalist John Muir
The late Arthur Quinn said it best in "Broken Shore," his perceptive history of the Marin peninsula. Near the end of his masterful narrative, Quinn — a Marin native, friend of poet Czeslaw Milosz, and professor of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley — observed: "To see the forces of history acting here is to see them acting on a human scale. Here, human faces are not lost in the shadows of monumental inevitabilities."
One thing is certain. Those who laid the foundation for a sustainable future in Marin were not "lost in the shadows of monumental inevitabilities."" Continue reading ...
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