Environmental News

More local species will make city’s canopy less vulnerable to climate change, experts say

Many gardeners plant invasive ornamental plants and trees sold in nurseries or ones gifted to them from other gardeners — not realizing how they’re contributing to the problems caused by these plants.

Putah Creek Council is excited to announce the return of community volunteer environmental stewardship events after a year-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gov. Newsom and state leaders are going to an international conference to make a statement on California climate change policy. The governor has big shoes to fill compared to former Gov. Jerry Brown.

Native plants are vital to the health of the local ecosystem, particularly during a time of climate change, hotter weather, and droughts. KCRW tours the Theodore Payne Foundation to learn about the power of native plants and how to grow them yourself. 

Theodore Payne Foundation, at the eastern edge of the San Fernando Valley, is a nursery that grows and sells all kinds of native Southern California plants, including hummingbird sage, lilac verbena, and deer grass.

The Encinitas-based nonprofit San Diego Botanic Garden is getting roughly $200,000 from the California State Coastal Conservancy and $50,000 from the Natural Resources Conservation Service to remove invasive plants and replenish native plants in Ocean Knoll Canyon

By adding native plants to your yard, balcony, garden, or rooftop, you can help birds in the face of climate change, urban development, and other threats.

Provide pollinators with a wide variety of native flowers that will help them over the entire course of the early spring into the fall.

There’s a simple way for extended filers to have a positive impact on our native threatened and endangered species on their California Income Tax Form 540.