Summer 2006
Table of Contents
Like Father, Like Son
“Methyl iodide is not an ozone depleter, but that’s about the only nice thing you can say about it.”
Patriotic Publishing
How Would a Patriot Act?
Polling for Peace and Quiet
The Santa Clara Valley Open Space Initiative would amend the county’s general plan to preserve ranchlands, hillsides, and agricultural areas.
Sacramento Watch
Bush Rolls Back, California Rolls On
Visioning San Francisco Past
A living archive of the city
Tiny Molecules, Big Uncertainties
Nobody knows how to regulate nanotech, but it’s already in your sunscreen.
Eating Arsenic and Old TCE
What’s new and small and eats arsenic and old TCE (trichloroethylene) spills?
Brave New Yeast
Yeast flies through the air with the greatest of ease. So does the genetically modified version.
Too Much of a Good Thing
Doctors increasingly must turn to “drugs of last resort” as more bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Who killed the super drug?
Why Sonoma County’s Measure M Failed
Mendocino County had an advantage: the opposition didn’t have a strategy. Now it does.
Meat the Future
Beware the yuck factor.
The YIMBY Revolution
Anticipating the end of oil.
Reality TV Grows Roots
Broadcasting sustainability issues into the living rooms of local channel-surfers.
Behind the Meatrix
Educating viewers about the hazards and health risks associated with factory farming and industrial dairy farms by combining pop culture parody with a behind-the-scenes look at how conventional meat and dairy products are produced in the US.
Wild Things
Kathryn Spence’s Unlikely Avians
Berkeley Farmers’ Markets: GMO-Free Zone
One of the only truly GMO-free places to shop in the nation.
Essential Reads
Paul Stamets bends your mind.
Meine Grüne Nation
When zeal becomes zealotry.
Window on the Ecology Center
The big yellow truck usually arrives a little late to the Derby Street Tuesday Farmers’ Market. A casual shopper might raise an eyebrow, thinking these late arrivals got up late or took a long lunch break.
