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PG&E’s “Jailbreak”
A little-noticed federal court ruling could mean that companies declaring bankruptcy can waive all state laws governing water quality, safety,...
Urban Ag Showdown
Student activists say they are ready to apply “political pressure,” including civil disobedience, to stop the University of California Berkeley...
The Last Stands
A little more than a year ago, “Remedy” — she uses a pseudonym to elude being served with a civil...
Life Among The Ruins
What happens when a catastrophe destroys your home? A fire, an earthquake, maybe even a war rips through your living...
Song of the Elderberries
Environmentalists often talk in terms of “stewardship,” “protection,” and “defense” as if we are guardians of a child. Certainly there...
The Spirit Lover
What I am going to tell you happened in Nicasio, on the old rancheria, where many of us lived after...
Stranger in a Strange Lake
At the visitors’ center at Clear Lake State Park, past the diorama of Pomo village life and the cutaway diagram...
O Pioneers!
A raw volcano in Hawai‘i will rearrange one’s ideas about Nature, deep and fast. Continue reading →...
Big-Picture Choices
Is an ice cube tray with round holes more energy efficient than one with rectangular holes? Continue reading →...
Winter on the Farm
In winter, our farmers take a breath, pick and sell in the rain, organize boxes, prune, weed, fix the plows...
Civil Wrongs
In 1996, Mohave Indian Dave Harper got some advice that may one day save lives on the Colorado River Indian...
Joining the Chorus
Who needs concrete, billboards, and Homeland Security? Sometimes it helps to get out of the manufactured world and sit in...
