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Strong language from Dennis Kucinich on the passage of a bill in the House to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. We must not only search for alternative energy.  We must search for an alternative way to live.  We must escape this cycle of destruction.  We must reconcile with nature.  We must findContinue reading “Dancing with Ghosts”

Having successfully privatized a great deal of access to undeveloped national forest and BLM lands, the GOP now is targeting the national parks. According to Jeff Ruch, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: “This starts a slow motion commercialization of the national park system. What will be allowed stops just short of licensing adsContinue reading “The Offical Beer of Yosemite”

Although the Internet is blamed for spreading all sorts of rumors and bad jokes, it probably doesn’t get enough credit for also dispatching with all sorts of crazy nonsense. This column on the right-wing TechCentralStation needs a grain of salt, because the writer previously spoke warmly of Harriet Miers’ mediocrity, and grandly declared without evidenceContinue reading “Internet Kills Wacky Aliens, Undercuts Scientologists”

Judith Lewis, the first-rate enviro reporter for the LA Weekly, spent the last six months of her life reconsidering nuclear power. Here’s the piece she wrote about it, which is as good as anything I’ve seen on the subject. Among the many stunning facts she unearthed was the fact that one nuclear power plant sparesContinue reading “1 Nuclear Power Plant = 93 Million Cars”

Countless documentaries on climate change have aired on national television, including one last week from the newly-converted FOXNews, but last night for the first time saw a comedy special on the issue. Hosted by Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, the special was mostly stand-up, with a few skits and plenty of advertisements, but did findContinue reading “Earth to America: Global Warming Special”

Steven Milloy is a right-wing hack who makes a good living abusing science. He has a column on the FOXNews site, but also runs two groups out of his home that have received over $90,000 from ExxonMobil. He’s upset because two well-known leftwing activists, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Laurie David, have convinced his bossContinue reading “Global Warming Coverage Makes Fox News Hack Hot Under the Collar”

In an appearance at Cal State Channel Islands last week, Terry Tempest Williams begin by talking about her new book, "The Open Space of Democracy," and her town’s struggle to keep its soul. Castle Valley, a tiny Utah town about twenty miles from Moab, was threatened with inalterable change when a real estate developer boughtContinue reading “Listening to the Land (Is Not Easy)”

LINE OF THE WEEK:     From a dazzling essay in Poetry magazine, by one of the least traditional and most interesting poets in the country, Mary Karr: "…while I still believed in God, he had come to seem like Miles Davis, some nasty genius scowling out from under his hat, scornful of my mere beingContinue reading “The New God”

Tuesday evening the brilliant writer Terry Tempest Williams spoke to a crowd of students, professors, and outsiders (such as myself) at Cal State Channel Islands (in Camarillo). Wide-ranging as always, she spoke about numerous topics, but inevitably returned to her central themes; the work of sustainability, the need for community with nature. She closed withContinue reading “Conspiring Against Life”

In what has to be the most stunning electoral news of the day, all eight right-wing Republican members of the conservative Dover, Penn. school board who backed the idea of forcing high school biology teachers to instruct students in the religious ideology known as "intelligent design" were ousted by voters. According to the Washington Post,Continue reading “The Judge May Notice”