The San Franciscan has found her passion in promoting sustainable-energy policy.
The activist is empowering farmworkers with knowledge.
Helping the desert go green.
In his quarterly note to Alta’s readers, publisher Will Hearst charts a course for the next West.
With punk rocker audacity and aerospace bona fides, Dezső Molnár is out to build a street-legal flying car.
When it comes to flying cars, The Jetsons got a few things wrong.
The Threshold Choir provides music and comfort for a particularly special audience.
Los Angeles native Gary Leonard’s image of mid-pandemic Larchmont Village won the photographer a new iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Gary Snyder recalls his decades-long friendship with the late poet, publisher, and owner of City Lights.
My quest to meet the famous poet 30 years ago.
Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021).
Pictures and videos of nature fail to capture its wonder—and significance.
Architect Deanna Van Buren is building positive alternatives to the criminal justice system.
A winter road trip to California’s northern high desert in search of familial belonging provides hope—even in the face of futility.
A new study of urban raptors reveals their close attention to human behavior, even during a pandemic.
