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Yubanet: Blue Lead Withdraws Appeal
Yubanet today reports that Blue Lead Mine has withdrawn its formal appeal to the Board of Supervisors to overturn the Planning Commission’s denial of vested right to mine. As you may recall, the Planning Commission decided to deny Blue Lead’s application for vested right to mine after hearing significant...
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PG&E Small-Scale Solar Utility in Nevada County?
Here Chris Johns, President of PG&E, talks about the utility’s new 2-megawatt Vaca-Dixon solar array and how it could fit into a strategy of using smaller arrays, closer to transmission and customers. The EPA has already designated the Idaho-Maryland Mine site as suitable for utility-scale solar. With Emgold’s...
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Great Article About Grass Valley in Today’s SacBee
Today’s Sacramento Bee featured an excellent article about the growing charms of Grass Valley. Your Guide: You want nice place, nice people? Try Grass Valley By Rick Kushman rkushman@sacbee.com Published: Sunday, Jul. 25, 2010 – 12:00 am GRASS VALLEY – Everyone is so nice here. Not goober-sweet, insulin-shock...
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A Kick Ass Movie, Followed by Our Comfort Restaurant
We had a great date today: A matinee at Sutton Cinemas, where we watched Angelina Jolie kick ass in Salt. A lot of fun so long as you suspend your disbelief. As one of my American literature professors used to say, “fiction depends on the willing suspension of disbelief.” There was a lot of disbelief to...
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Articles
Climate change: Check the data yourself
A collaborative online effort allows both skeptics and believers to study and compare the facts. ESSAY By Debra Peters and William DeBuys (From High Country News, http://hcn.org, July 13, 2010. Reprinted with permission) According to opinion polls, a...
Michael Klare: “BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come”
Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com Four Scenarios for the Next Energy Mega-Disaster by Michael Klare On June 15th, in their testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the chief executives of America’s leading oil companies...
Restoring California’s Wild Watersheds (Reprint from Yes!)
Published by Yes! Magazine May 27, 2010 Why more water for wildlife means more water for people. by Jane Braxton Little Jim Wilcox is sitting on a rock near a quarter-acre pond watching a pair of willow flycatchers flit in and out of the brush across...
Israel Murders Human Rights Workers Delivering Humanitarian Aid
by Marjorie Cohn On Sunday, Israel murdered human rights workers who were attempting to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, because Gaza has been virtually cut off from the outside world by Israel. At least 19 people were reportedly...
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Reviews
Farming Was His Life, Until the CAFOs Came
I heard Thom Hartmann interview David Kirby, author of Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment. This could be one of those watershed environmental books, like Rachel Carson’s...
Corporations Have Become More Dangerous to Democracy Since Reagan
Barry Lynn, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, talks about his book, Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction. According to Lynn (speaking in the video below), “in 1981 the Reagan administration changed...
Amazing Buzz on New Book: Eating Animals
I’ve never seen this kind of buzz on a new book before, and since I’m a sucker for book buzz and hype, and I haven’t actually read the book yet, I’ll just pass on some of the buzz and hype about Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran...
Book Review — The End of the Long Summer
Dianne Dumanoski, in her book, “The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth,” writes with great breadth and depth about what she calls the planetary era. Since the beginning of this era, in...
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