This story about the siphoning of water from the Sacramento River to the big corporate farms and cities of southern California says a lot about the future of water resources in the West, and the nation more broadly. Water is the #1 issue in western...
Author: Erik Loomis
Who else is just ecstatic at the possibility of Catfood Commission Erskine Bowles as Secretary of the Treasury? I know I can't wait for the Obama Administration to start negotiations.
It's really hard to see how Adam Davidson's tenure at NPR can continue after this powerful report linking his "journalism" to his real job as a paid shill for the.
For this week's Forestry Friday post I want to follow up on last week's discussion of drug cartels destroying the forests of Mexico by bringing this story into the forests of California. A team of scientists at UC-Davis conducted a study about recent deaths in...
Color me less than shocked that people are gaming the carbon credit system, creating unintended consequences that actually hurts the environment.
I've read a lot of writing by members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Propaganda, songs, pamphlets, newspapers, posters, etc. The I.W.W. may have been completely ineffective at actual.
I watched Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank the other night. It was a pretty excellent film, even if the plot twist was predictable. Essentially, a very confused, messed-up, and angry 15 year old causes problems and gets into fights, yet shows great tenderness in other cases....
Of course any post on the top 10 films in history is basically trolling for comments. But they were interesting comments. And here's a few additional thoughts based upon them:.
On August 4, 1942, the United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World.
If you haven't read Karla Zabludovsky's piece today on locals in Michoacán organizing to fight illegal logging by criminal gangs that is robbing them of their livelihood and traditional ways of life, you really must do so. A few points on this: 1. While legalizing...
On August 3, 1981, the nation's air traffic controllers went on strike in arguably the greatest disaster in the history of American organized labor. Ronald Reagan's busting of the union.
For those Thursday night drivin' Robert Moses road lovin' readers out there, here's Hilary Harris' 1958 paean to the road, Highway.