Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter Annual David Brower Dinner, Thursday, September 8
Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter Annual David Brower Dinner
Thursday, September 8 | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Delancey Street Town Hall SF Embarcadero
600 The Embarcadero, SF
Join Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service and the contributions of Bay Area residents and organizations to the creation and continued protection of the nation's natural and cultural resources. CESP is a sponsor. Event link: http://sierraclub.org/san-francisco-bay/davidbrowerdinner2016
Spring 2016 Shore Lines newsletter
From Robert Cheasty, CESP Executive Director
Dear Parks Supporter:
Welcome to the spring edition of the Citizens for East Shore Parks (CESP) Shore Lines newsletter. Thank you for celebrating 30 years of advocacy with us last year! Much has happened since our last correspondence at the end of 2015. CESP moved its office to Solano Avenue in Berkeley (on the Albany border). In addition to the move we had internal staff changes. Former Executive Director Patricia Jones retired in January 2016, Robert Cheasty switched from Board President to Executive Director and ...
East Bay park and conservation groups in recession land rush
By Denis Cuff, Contra Costa Times
Wednesday December 15, 2010
Longtime conservationists Ron Brown and Seth Adams anxiously hovered over an office computer and prepared to type in bids quickly when the online auction began for a 5-acre slice of Brentwood grasslands they hoped to get for a bargain.
The Save Mount Diablo leaders usually had months or years to make land deals. This time, though, they figured to have 60 to 90 seconds to buy or lose the foreclosed property on this Internet auction of distressed properties.
Adams tapped in a $5,000 raise. Someone in ...
Climate change: Sea rise could kill vital marshes
By Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, November 17, 2011
The critical tidal marshes of San Francisco Bay - habitat for tens of thousands of birds and other animals - will virtually disappear within a century if the sea rises as high as some scientists predict it will as a result of global warming.
The sea would inundate the coastline and eliminate 93 percent of the bay's tidal wetlands if carbon emissions continue unchecked and the ocean rises 5.4 feet, as predicted by scientists under a worst-case scenario, according to a new study by PRBO ...
Soccer complex developer heading elsewhere as fight over vacant land continues
By Hannah Dreier, Contra Costa Times
July 10, 2011
RICHMOND -- A plan to build a soccer complex on the city's north shoreline appears to be dead, but the fight over this mostly vacant land is far from over.
A developer who had proposed to build a soccer complex featuring 19 fields, a hotel and an outdoor mall on Richmond's northwestern edge is taking his proposal to Suisun City, he said last week.
But the furor still rages over a draft of the city's revised general plan, which proposes to preserve the north shoreline as the city's by designating it open ...
Land Battle Stirs Richmond
By David Ferry, The Wall Street Journal
June 16, 2011
Dan Murray, above, stands in a 55-acre property near Richmond's northern shoreline that he hopes to sell to a developer.
RICHMOND - A proposal to preserve a small stretch of shoreline in this East Bay city has divided the community, pitting developers and Richmond's growing Hispanic population against conservationists and the city council.
The conflict involves a privately owned parcel of largely vacant marshland on the edge of the working-class city. Earlier this year, a new draft of Richmond's ...
Berkeley Meadow rebooted: The wildest place in town
By Jim Rosenau
Thursday April 14, 2011
Wildflowers in the Berkeley Meadow. All photos by Sean Gin
In 1961, the Oakland Tribune reported that the city of Berkeley planned to fill another 2,000 acres of shoreline for development, including building an airport. The story prompted Berkeleyans Sylvia McLaughlin, Kay Kerr and Esther Gulick to call a meeting with local conservation groups and found the Save San Francisco Bay Association (now Save The Bay), one of the earliest and most successful regional environmental organizations in the world. (For those of you keeping ...
EGRET Evicted from Building in Berkeley’s Aquatic Park (News Analysis)
By Joe Eaton, with Charlotte Perry-Houts
Berkeley Daily PLanet
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Nothing brightens the holiday season quite like an eviction.
This Monday afternoon, Mark Liolios, founder of the Aquatic Park Environmental Greening, Restoration, and Education Team (EGRET), locked up the Cabin, also known as the Model Boat Building, the structure he and his environmental stewardship group have been using as an interpretive center. The Berkeley Parks and Recreation Department had demanded that EGRET and its sponsoring organization Berkeley Partners for Parks ...