Road Dust is Richmond’s Most Dangerous Pollutant

From a health and environmental standpoint, the most important result of street sweeping is the debris you cannot see. Recent research has revealed that a chemical found in car tire debris kills coho salmon returning to spawn. For the first time in years, endangered...

Bike to Wherever Day

Bike to Wherever Day is back in person this year and coming up soon! Join the City of Richmond, Bike East Bay, 511 Contra Costa, and more, on Friday, May 20th from 7am – 9am to celebrate the Bay Area’s biggest day for bicycling. You’ll get a free,...

Lost Tales of Point Molate – The King of Pot

Figure 1 – Bruce Perlowin, the “King of Pot” Figure 1 – In 1979, Brett Douglas was a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine Corps veteran working as a commercial tuna fisherman in California. That year, a young man named Bruce Perlowin came looking...