An Array of Utopian Flowers
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What Every SoCal Beach Town Suffers: Parking
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Wildlife Crossings: Animals Survive with Bridges and Tunnels
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Henry Miller’s Free Association into the Surreal
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La Loba: Wild Woman, Luminous Wolf
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Vandana Shiva: Maintaining Biodiversity and the Seeds of Freedom
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WilderUtopia in 64 Languages
Chasing Ice: The New “Inconvenient Truth”
Arctic Melting Before Our Eyes - In his new film on the disappearance of Arctic glaciers, “Chasing Ice,” author, award-winning photographer and reformed climate-change denier James Balog used time-lapse photography to capture global warming in progress.
Read MoreEcological Urbanism
A City Green Re-Imagination - We must demand an ecological retrofitting of our urban environments to live together more efficiently, giving credence to community, allowing space for the open wild.
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Orange County Archive
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Stupid Toll Road (STR-241) to Nowhere, Still Nowhere Fast
Posted on March 15, 2013 | 1 CommentA movement to pave over San Onofre State Beach and Trestles with a toll-road-to-nowhere-for-nobody-but-developers was rejected by the California Coastal Commission and Federal Commerce Department in 2008. Yet, here again the State Water Boards will decide in May whether to grant a permit for the "Stupid Toll Road" to dump contaminated runoff into creeks and the ocean while keeping the dream alive of paving over Trestles. -
Trestles Beach: National Treasure or Toll Road Off-Ramp?
Posted on March 12, 2013 | 1 CommentWorld-renowned San Onofre and Trestles have been synonymous with California surfing since the 1930s. A movement to pave over the park and beach with a toll road was rejected by in 2008. We now have the opportunity to have it recognized for its historical contributions by being listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and stop that toll road project for good. -
Show Goes on in Bid to Restart Leaking Nuke Plant – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on February 20, 2013 | No CommentsFor darn sure don't mention that cancerous creaky ol'nuke plant you were so handsomely paid to cheer for. Because talk of radioactivity at home, in the workplace, or at your kid's school, ruins an otherwise perfect day, no matter what. -
Toll Lanes as Congestion Management: Mobility for the Wealthy Few
Posted on July 4, 2012 | No CommentsConverting freeway lanes to tollways in the name of congestion management, without viable transit alternatives, will only reduce mobility for the majority in exchange for wealthy drivers getting to work on time. -
Extreme Water: Tapping the California Desert to Feed Growth Addiction?
Posted on May 19, 2012 | 1 CommentCadiz Inc potentially lucrative groundwater mining proposal for the Mojave Desert intends to water lawns and pools for suburban Southern California at the expense of taxpayers and ultimately the desert ecosystem. -
Santa Ana Mountains: Vestige of Wild Coastal Southern California
Posted on May 5, 2012 | No CommentsFollowing the footsteps of Willis E. Pequegnat, a biologist from the 1930s who explored the wild Santa Ana Mountains in Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties, this video field journal logs the wonders and threats to this thriving resource. -
Will a Magical Toll Road Get Us Out Alive?
Posted on November 20, 2011 | No CommentsAnd while we're in a wishing mode, a resident living down here in the shadow of San Onofre Nuke Plant (SONGS) recommends paving a Toll Road through the backcountry of San Onofre State Beach and the San Mateo Creek Watershed, as the ultimate solution to us escaping SONGS' unscheduled meltdown. -
The Atoms Family: Radiation is Everywhere!
Posted on August 19, 2011 | No CommentsEdison illuminates for elementary schoolers nuclear fission's faulty towers, "Let's Color and Do Activities with The Atoms Family!" Cancer or evacuations not included. -
Property Values Go Nuclear
Posted on July 27, 2011 | 1 CommentYou can evacuate after a nuclear meltdown, but your mortgage stays put, radiating downward. A sad syndrome, easily avoided by shutting San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station now. -
Regulating Nukes? There’s No Escaping the Plume
Posted on July 18, 2011 | No CommentsThe lingering death-knell hidden inside the million vulnerabilities of every nuke-plant cannot be supervised away. Gaming electrical power from nuclear generation is too-complex a technology not to finally fail. When it does, all hell breaks loose, and nukes' evil genie never goes back in the bottle. Loose-nukes / radioactive meltdown, released to the atmosphere, doesn't sink ships, it sinks society. -
Nuclear Waste: San Onofre’s Heavy Lament By Jerry Collamer
Posted on June 30, 2011 | 3 CommentsSouthern California residents are right to worry about the storage of "spent" fuel-rods at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), as Japan's Fukushima Daiichi melts-thru to who knows where. To what horrific end, no one can predict. -
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station – The Scariest Workplace in the USA – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 14 CommentsReading this will upset a bunch of folks living near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, called SONGS, between Orange and San Diego Counties, California. Because as far as I can tell, the truth percolating inside SONGS nuke plant ain't getting out. -
Disaster Roulette: Earthquakes and Nukes at San Onofre By Jack Eidt and Jerry Collamer
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 3 CommentsDisaster can be avoided, if you just don't go there. Yet our human nature is to go, to build, to deny the omnipotent laws of nature, then suffer that all too familiar consequence. -
Nuclear Regulatory Smackdown at San Onofre
Posted on February 1, 2011 | 1 CommentPrecedent for closing San Onofre Nuke Plant: It's age and human fallibility managing an outdated plant fast approaching its 2013 expiration date.
