What I love(d) about living in the big city is the wealth of opportunity. I'm not talking about the potential for cultural enrichment or the multitude of career options, the accessibility of art or the…
Posts published in July 2015
Those thousands of articles about the coming consequences of global warming, over-population, and environmental pollution? Those consequences are here. Yes, things are going to get worse, but unprecedented climatic events are not coming sooner or later, they are here.
When Gov. Jerry Brown announced two weeks ago at an Oakland press conference that he would radically downsize a 100,000-acre wetland restoration job, environmentalists and water policy activists blew the foul whistle. The habitat enhancement…
Driving to Boston from Ithaca to give a concert at the venerable early music festival there last week, I decided to listen to a book on tape rather than my usual fare of pastoral symphonies…
A's Versus Giants Ballparks — If going to a ballgame at Giants Park in San Francisco is considered a step up in the major league baseball fan experience, well then going to an Oakland Athletics…
Heat Warning;
Bypass Herbicides;
Burke Fire;
Fire Restrictions;
Police Reports;
Called Sheriff;
Vineyards?;
Judge's Instructions;
Murder Investigation;
Headlines;
Vaccination Ideas;
Swan Swap;
Prosecution Stats;
Yesterday's Catch;
Ough!;
Pattison;
Extorting Greece;
Toxic Spill;
Mendo Events
The Not-So-Simple Living Fair is a weekend of rural living skills education, homesteading workshops, back to the land demonstrations, music, and dance, held July 24-26, at the Mendocino County fairgrounds in Boonville. This is a…
Does the Gualala River have 25,000 gallons per day to spare, in addition to ongoing diversions during yet another historical critical drought year?
A Nigerian student makes his car a clean green fighting machine.