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On Saturday, November 15th, BAYCS and the SF Environment Department hosted their first Green Careers Fair. ~150 people attended, exploring not only their future job options but also what it truly means for a job to be a green career.

At Carlmont High School (CHS) in Belmont, a bright garden sits beside green metal benches and a shaded staircase. At lunch, students gather to take care of it or just sit beside it. Maintained by CHS’ Green Team, the garden prioritizes growing vegetables and fruits, cultivating them with the hope of donating them to local food banks like the Second Harvest Food Bank. Incoming CHS Junior Miranda Wacker, president of CHS’ Green Team and member of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby San

David Solnit and Co-Chair Emily Pecore at the 2025 BAYCS Inauguration Rally David Solnit is an activist, arts organizer, and printmaker of 50+ years who resides in Berkeley but works in Richmond. Solnit has worked on several notable activism projects regarding the climate and workers rights; in 1999, he helped organize more than 10,000 people to protest the World Trade Organization, preventing what would have been the most detrimental corporate globalization in history. If su

Photo from SF Chronicle On the morning of February 1, two workers at the Martinez petroleum refinery encountered leaking hydrocarbon material during maintenance. The factory practice of burning excess petroleum lit the material on fire immediately, starting a blaze which sent black plumes of smoke into the suburbs surrounding the refinery. This caused a city-wide shelter in place  and injured six people. While the fire was quickly extinguished by 11 a.m., the smoke remained.

Ever wonder why the produce at your local supermarket might be restocked more frequently? Why sometimes the fruits and veggies may look abnormally shaped? Genetic modification (GM) and pesticides are to thank for this speedy response to high demand. However, the underlying impacts of GM and the use of pesticides threaten the environment and can jeopardize human health in the long run. Genetic modification, as defined by the National Human Genome Institute, is “a process that