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San Onofre Nuclear Waste Dangers Compound
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Waste Colonization, Plastic Pollution and the Pacific Gyre
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Rise for Climate Los Angeles: September 8
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San Onofre Beach as Permanent Nuclear Waste Dump
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Archive for August, 2012
Space Exploration: Ray Bradbury and the Mission to the Red Planet
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No Comments“The Martians were there—in the canal—reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water....” --Ray Bradbury, "The Martian Chronicles"
San Onofre Nuke Plant: When the Bottom Line Pushes Us Over the Cliff – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on August 28, 2012 | 1 CommentWhat's it going to take to have Edison admit its deadly addiction to nuclear, and mothball SONGS forever, before its thunder domes of molten uranium go over the cliff and 8-million citizens suffer the horrific, eternal consequences?
Beasts of the Southern Wild: Bayou Culture Sinking into the Gulf – By Jack Eidt
Posted on August 28, 2012 | 1 Comment"Beasts," a hard-knock ecological fairy tale about the disappearing Louisiana bayou coastline, highlights the fragility of the region's hurricane defenses and the resulting devastation of communities and cultures living on the flooding margins.
Electric Streetcars: Back to the Urban Future
Posted on August 25, 2012 | 2 CommentsThe movement toward revitalization of downtown areas in the United States with streetcars brings 19th century urbanism together with 21st century sustainability, despite the usual fossil fueled detractors.
Dirty Realism: The Anti-Social Satire of Charles Bukowski
Posted on August 18, 2012 | 3 CommentsI go outside - and all up and down the street - the green armies shoot color - like an everlasting 4th of July, - and I too seem to swell inside, - a kind of unknown bursting, - a feeling, perhaps, that there isn't any - enemy - anywhere
Chinese Mega-Cities Contrasted with Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities”
Posted on August 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsRapid industrialization in China has caused a massive migration to crowded, faceless and polluted urban mega-cities of 10 million residents or more. They should consider Italo Calvino's utopian "Invisible Cities" to rethink the role of imagination in urban planning.
Gonzovision 1970s: Hunter S. Thompson on the American Dream
Posted on August 11, 2012 | 1 Comment"America could have been a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race. Instead, we just moved in here and destroyed the place from coast to coast like killer snails. Everybody wants power over a country that's had it's day."
Adams on Kerouac: The Buddha’s First Noble Truth Unveiled at Big Sur
Posted on August 11, 2012 | 1 CommentJohn Adams' "The Dharma at Big Sur," composed for the opening of LA's Disney Hall, references Jack Kerouac's evocation of the first of Buddha's Four Noble Truths in microtones, celebrating the freedom of the California coast at Big Sur.
Detroit Works: Urban Farming and Reforestation as Neighborhood Preservation
Posted on August 9, 2012 | 18 CommentsDetroit Future City, the long-term planning vision for the long-rusting Motor City, embraces the urban farming, permaculture, and ecological urbanism movements seen in cities across the United States, to chart the way to more a prosperous and sustainable future.
