The winners of the California Coastal Commission’s (CCC) Coastal Art & Poetry Contest are announced! Ten winners and forty honorable mentions have been selected from this year’s entries. On the website you’ll find beautiful, powerful, and playful art and poetry and personal statements from the artists. The CCC is sending Read more
Enjoy this great and short video from our friends at San Diego Audubon. As a reminder, the ReWild Mission Bay plan is to restore some of the historic Rose Creek wetlands that stretched from today’s current Kendall-Frost Marsh almost to Interstate 5. Interested in learning more about this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Read more
Taking refuge from the coronavirus pandemic, wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn set out to record all the bees he could find in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England, filming them with one-of-a-kind lenses he forged on his kitchen table. Learn more at PBS.org About
This video features Rick Halsey, founder of the California Chaparral Institute, and is about the California Chaparral biome, a wonderful, yet totally misunderstood biome found across the state.
Normally, we feature great videos on wetlands from an environmental perspective. Today’s short video is from the Oro Loma wastewater treatment plant pilot project on using Green Infrastructure (aka natural solutions) to solve human created problems and challenges.
A perspective from the European Union’s MaCoBioS project. Climate change is upon us, and the urgency to act against it has never been so high. The ever-increasing emission of carbon dioxide over the past century must be reversed and has become a global priority. The sea level is rising, and Read more
In this short cartoon, you will learn why salt marshes, like the ones at the south end of Rose Creek, are critical for human health and livelihood. If you are wondering why we need to restore a large swath of wetlands at the mouth of Rose Creek, watch this video. Read more
This video provides an introduction into how salt marshes came to exist with a focus on Delaware Bay. But the lessons are applicable to the Rose Creek and Kendall-Frost salt marsh.
The Environmental Center of San Diego (ECO San Diego) envisions a community working together to protect and enhance San Diego’s natural environment through education, advocacy and direct action, and to ensure access to the coast where feasible. We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We’re Doing Something Read more
THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATION We are pleased to announce the availability of tickets for the Sixth Annual San Diego Environmental Leadership Summit. After two years of virtual events, we are going live in 2022! The Summit will be an all-day conference for 125 leaders of environmental organizations in the San Diego Region on Saturday, September Read more