Crosscurrents for Monday, November 9, 2009: Exploring the Waterfronts

We've got a great thematic show on the way for Monday.  Along with the day's top stories, we're scheduled to take a look at different aspects of environmentalism through the following pieces:

- Bay Area News Group reporter Julia Scott digs deep into South Bay landfills to find habitat for thousands of non-native gulls.  It turns out, along with the garbage we dump, they've been eating endangered species.  You can check out a print version of this story published in partnership with us in the Contra Costa Times... but you'll definitely want to tune in to hear exactly how landfill managers are handling these flying scavengers

- then we'll sail the high seas with Mary Crowley, who took the Kaisei sailing ship into the North Pacific Gyre, where a lot of the garbage we produce that doesn't quite make it to landfills ends up.  Check out some great images, here, and then listen to Crowley's personal experiences on Crosscurrents

- and we'll head to the San Francisco shoreline to revisit historic Carville... where old streetcars were repurposed as residences in the sand dunes.  As part of Steven Short's episodic study of Bay Area place names, the Source, he talks with Woody LaBounty, who just published Carville-By-The-Sea, San Francisco's Streetcar Suburb