‘Ghost of Tulare’
Posted on | December 9, 2009 | No Comments
“Tufts of unmilled cotton line Utica Avenue like clumps of dirty spring snow,” writes Judith Lewis in High Country News. “The road is like hundreds of others in the dun-and-green checkerboard of California’s Central Valley, a two-lane highway running straight as a zipper past geometrically arranged almond orchards and vineyards. Steve Haze, a candidate for U.S. Congress, is out here on what he calls “recon,” determined to debunk the local billboard slogans. “Congress-Created Drought” is common in fallow fields, right behind “Food Grows Where Water Flows” and “Water = Jobs.” The signs were put up by corporate growers and water-management leaders, who complain that a federal court decision that reduced their irrigation deliveries to save a tiny fish put thousands of people out of work. Haze thinks the reality is more complicated … He would like to see [Tulare Lake] brought back to life to help solve California’s water problems.”
To keep reading about one man’s dream to restore the lost Tulare Lake, once one of the largest freshwater bodies west of the Mississippi, click here. For the Twitter account of the writer, accomplished LA-based environment reporter Judith Lewis, click here. After reading Lewis’s article, head to a library for a copy of “The King of California,” the story of JG Boswell, whose cotton grows on the Tulare lakebed.
Casting daily: ‘Brad Pitt is saving Planet Earth in Copenhagen’
Posted on | December 9, 2009 | No Comments
From the London Guardian's daily picture gallery of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen: "The director Tue Biering (right) and assistant Marijana Jankovic (left) go through the script with a potential actor wearing a wig and sunglasses during the casting for a film called Brad Pitt is saving Planet Earth in Copenhagen. Every day someone is chosen to act in one scene, culminating in 12 scenes making a movie which will be screened on the internet at the end of the climate conference." Click on the image to be taken to the entire Guardian photo gallery. This photo: Adrian Dennis / AFP / Getty Images
Chance of rain
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | No Comments
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Copenhagen
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | No Comments
Global warming video is projected onto a floating cube. The scale of the CO2 cube installation represents one tonne of carbon dioxide, the amount an average person in an industrialized country emits each month. Photo: Peter Dejong, Associated Press. For the rest of the Copenhagen photo gallery from the London Guardian, click on the image.
Click here for the home page of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cophenhagen.
The week that was, 11/29/2009-12/5/2009
Posted on | December 6, 2009 | No Comments
"Untroubled waters," 1931, from "Behold the day: The color block prints of Frances Gearhart" at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Click on the image for more prints by Gearhart, a link to the gallery and the curator's essay on the show, which runs through January 31st. Listing via Deborah Netburn at latimes.com.
“The dinosaurs didn’t know it was coming. We do. … Scientists might think that the right information in the right place is enough to move people to moral action, but that’s a logical mistake.” — philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore, “Water — Do we have any moral obligation to the future?” WaterWired, December 4, 2009
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