Calligraphy of Thought is an East Bay Muslim poetry collective whose members transpose the beauty of expression into spoken word, celebrating what it means to be Muslim. Through its various ...

Laser cutters, 3D printers, sewing machines, injection molders, welders, notchers, planers, lathes, hand tools, computers. Enter TechShop, San Francisco—three vast floors of every kind of maker ...

Traverse the 600-mile trail that connects California’s 21 missions. Peer behind an ornate mission altarpiece that, for more than two centuries, has hidden murals painted by the Ohlone Indians ...

Persis Karim from Berkeley called The Making Of storyline and told us about how her mother inspired her to make jam. We loved her story so much we visited her home and recorded her story ...

Julia Child would have been 100 years old on August 15, 2012. To celebrate her life Jacques Pépin’s made a centennial celebration tribute video to Julia. Read the story of how Julia met Jacques ...

Hear the radio version of this story from KQED’s The California Report. A site with evidence of more than 1,000 years of occupation is eroding due to high tides hitting the base of the cliff. On ...

Listen to the radio version of this story on The California Report. The City and County of Los Angeles now have customized climate predictions, thanks to a new UCLA study that took global climate ...

A few years back, number crunchers at the California Energy Commission tried to add up how much electrical power (and other forms of energy) goes into using water in California. The bottom line ...

The same things that make the San Joaquin Valley ideal for growing crops, plenty of sun and land, also attract large-scale solar power developers.

A new study suggests that massive electrification will be required to meet California's 2050 goal for greenhouse has reductions. Chances are you’ve at least heard about California’s legal ...

It’s official (no, really, this time). California has cap & trade — or will once the program starts ramping up next year. Today’s approval by the state’s Air Resources Board was described ...

The Navajo Generating Station is coal-fired power plant in Arizona, just outside the Grand Canyon National Park. It’s one of two coal plants that supplies more than 40% of Los Angeles’ power.