Category: Sustainable California

  • Sustainable California

    From the snowy watersheds of the Cascades and Sierras, to the world’s most productive agricultural valley and on to the sea, visit Sustainable California and see what your University, its people and friends are doing to find real-world solutions to maintain the sustainability and vitality of our state. From cultivating soil biota to purify groundwater, […]

  • Beyond the Brink?

    Are we beyond the brink? With months of oppressive heat and unrelenting fires – the fingerprint – or perhaps the firm boot print – of climate change is planted on California as global warming marches on to change everything about the future. “Adequate water for food for the nation is a water security issue, and […]

  • Sea Star Wasting Disease Update 2017

    The years from 2013 through 2015 witnessed the largest non-commercial marine mass mortality event on record (as of 2013) as up to 96% of all Ochre Sea Stars on the coasts of California and Oregon perished. This created a ‘natural experiment’ and an opportunity to study genomic changes in wild populations with unprecedented detail. Rather […]

  • Cropping Systems and Cows – New from Sustainable California

    Sustainable California brings you more programs about how we use, support and interact with California’s natural assets. With an over 700 percent increase in productivity in the last century, the California tomato industry represents 95 percent of all processing tomatoes produced in the US. That boom in productivity is due in no small part to […]

  • UCTV Launches New Portal to Sustainability for California

    As the world’s sixth largest economy and provider of more than half the nation’s fruits, nuts, and vegetables, sustaining California’s vitality is paramount. And, with greater demands from a changing climate and growing population, taking a proactive approach to maintaining sustainable growth for California is critical. That is what Sustainable California, a new, media-rich web […]