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MARCH 2012

Marin Transit Taking a Look at Bus Ridership in Tiburon

Marin County Transit District is looking to commuters and other bus riders heading in and out of the Tiburon Peninsula for help on how best to deal with the area's dismal ridership numbers. Continue reading ...

EPA Site Identifies Marin's Top GHG Emitter

Keeping track of major contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions just got easier with the January 2012 launch of a new website from the EPA. Continue reading ...

Making Themselves Known

TerraMarin photographer Jocelyn Knight happened upon some Red-tailed Hawks cruising the Martha Property atop the Tiburon Peninsula, where the breathtaking view is worthy of these keen-eyed birds of prey. Click here to see how they got their name.

Moveable Feast: Taking 'The Cheese Trail' Over North Bay Backroads

There's a new growth industry in Marin and Sonoma counties: creating artisan cheese.

Photo by Jocelyn Knight

To date, 27 companies are crafting 100 varieties of cheese from the milk of locally nurtured cows, goats, sheep — and yes, even water buffalo. A mozzarella di bufala from Tomales is in the works and set to debut in spring 2012. Continue reading ...

About TerraMarin

TerraMarin is dedicated to covering news and features specific to issues of sustainability and the environment in Marin and Sonoma. We'd love to hear from you, and we'd love for you to let others know that we exist — we need readership support to be sustainable. Drop us a note at acorn@terra-marin.com with suggestions.


Catching Up with Katie Rice

Supervisor Katie Rice

Supervisor Katie Rice and friend. Photo by Jocelyn Knight

TerraMarin Q&A with the New District 2 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 2 representative following his resignation for health reason. (Supervisor Brown died March 2 in his Sleepy Hollow home of pancreatic cancer.)

Rice talks about her new role in county government in this Q&A with TerraMarin. Continue reading ...

How One Marin Business Saluted the Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge in Lard

Photo courtesy the San Anselmo Historical Museum

Guess What This Version Is Made of?

The Golden Gate Bridge is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, with an official party planned for May 27, the day the bridge opened in 1937. In the meantime, we thought we'd post this image of how the opening of the bridge was celebrated at a once well-known grocery store in San Anselmo. For the answer to what this bridge is constructed of, continue reading ...

Yellow-legged frog, his head hidden in foam. Photo by Jocelyn Knight

Help Needed for Frogs Going a-Courtin'

Docent training by Marin Municipal Water District naturalists and a few hours of quality outdoor time will make a big difference in the life and the future of the Foothill Yellow-legged Frog. Continue reading ...

Fill 'er Up: San Pablo Bay's Oil Waterway

Harbor Seals, San Pablo Bay

Chevron refinery towers. California Sea Lions by 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. Continue reading ...

The Roots of Marin's Environmental Activism

From William Kent to Caroline Livermore, read how Marin's spirit of conservation got its start. Pictured here: Kent with naturalist John Muir. Continue reading ...