Over the past two decades, a coordinated effort focused on science and policy, education and awareness, and an entrepreneurial approach to workforce development has been underway to come to grips with the lasting legacy of the mining age.

The dialogue around regenerative agriculture has evolved over the last decade as agricultural methods that were once practiced by Indigenous communities around the world are reemerging.

Imagine selecting your final resting place where bobcats roam, wildflowers support bees and birds, and trails meander through rolling grasslands, oak savannah and forested settings.

Big Basin, nearly wiped out by fire, remains closed as the state struggles to protect nearly 300 parks from climate change. Solutions are costly: thinning forests, adding sand to beaches, moving parking lots and buildings.

Women founders in the Capital Region are developing groundbreaking technology in biotech and ag-tech, emerging industries where territory is still uncharted.

The Capital Region depends on water resources engineers like Mary Paasch, principal engineer and vice president of Stantec. 

In a world of portability and to-go orders, Grass Valley-based startup BoxPower delivers energy in a box.

The air board’s lack of accounting threatens to derail the state’s climate change goals, the audit says. “California is in need of more reliable tools,” state auditor Elaine Howle wrote.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District, which has served the community for nearly 75 years, also became a social services organization in 2018.