Thanks so much to everyone who joined us on Feb. 8th for happy hour at Phatsy Kline's Parlor Lounge! We always love opportunities to connect with our awesome local community. EPIC’s work is possible because of you! A special thanks to Phatsy Kline's for donating $1 from each Bubble Bouquet specialty cocktail to EPIC this past month as the "I'd Drink to That!" cause of the month for February 2023, and supporting local Humboldt nonprofits. To find out about future EPIC events,

The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is the nation’s largest-ever investment in climate action. While the IRA certainly has some fundamental climate-related shortcomings, it does provide individuals, organizations, companies, state, local, and tribal governments a range of financial incentives to shrink their carbon footprint and overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the incentives of the IRA are just starting to apply. On a macro scale, we need grid-connected ren

In what has become an annual event, timber planners on the Klamath National Forest are once again proposing post-fire clearcut logging and road construction in an otherwise protected old-growth "Late Successional Reserve." This time, the US Forest Service is targeting the steep headwaters of the Salmon River Watershed in the Taylor Creek Late Successional Reserve and Orleans Inventoried Roadless Area up to the boundary of the Trinity Alps Wilderness. There are times when the

You’ve heard we have to save the bees, but can bees help us save the planet? That’s the mission of BeeOdiversity, a company that is using bees to track environmental quality and biodiversity in precise detail over large areas. So how does it work? We all know that bees are pollinators because they transfer pollen from plant to plant, helping them reproduce. Researchers at BeeOdiversity developed the process for analyzing the same pollen to determine incredible amounts of info

The Medicine Lake Highlands, northeast of Mt. Shasta, are threatened with 20,000 acres of clearcutting, although the Klamath National Forest calls it “fire recovery” and “fuels reduction”. The environmental assessment (EA) for the Antelope Tennant timber sale was recently released and is open for public comment. Rather than address the significant impacts and public controversy with “salvage” logging, the Forest Service is pushing through this inadequate analysis by calling i

David Nathan”Gypsy” Chain was a young forest activist killed while trying to prevent illegal logging during an Earth First! action adjacent to Grizzly Creek State Park. He traveled to Humboldt County in the midst of the timber controversy, learned tree-climbing and nonviolent protest tactics, and took the wood's name "Gypsy." He was killed during a face-to-face conflict between timber fallers and Earth First! forest defenders on September 17, 1998, when irate Pacific Lumber C

Solarizing our homes is a crucial piece in the energy resilience and sustainability puzzle. Aside from the overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that comes from replacing dirty energy sources with photovoltaic (PV) technology, solar is also beneficial for other reasons. On the one hand, it builds energy independence and reduces reliance on centralized energy grids. Solar also lowers the overall long-term cost of utility bills for homeowners. The frequent power outages