Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 5th, 2026: The San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History With David D. Schmidt

Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 5th, 2026: The San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History With David D. Schmidt

Author: ksqd.org July 2, 2026 Duration: 0:55
The San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History With David D. Schmidt  On Sustainability Now!  Sunday, July 5th, from 5-6 PM on KSQD Over the past four centuries, the transformation of the Greater San Francisco Bay Region has been extraordinary.  What was once a near paradise for a few hundred thousand indigenous First Peoples is now home to nearly 8 million whose accumulated activities since the arrival of Europeans have created an industrialized landscape interspersed with large areas of open space where nature is in recovery. How did this happen? Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with David D. Schmidt, who spent two decades writing San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History, published by Back Country Press in 2025, and which is this year’s winner of the California Book Awards Gold Medal for Contributions to Publishing. The book is a magisterial tome addressing virtually every aspect of SF Bay and its environmental transformation over the past 400 years.  And learn how Alfred Hitchcock got the idea for his classic film “The Birds.”

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