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Yubanet today reports that Blue Lead Mine has withdrawn its formal appeal to the Board of Supervisors to overturn the Planning Commission’s denial of vested right to mine.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 testimony from the general public in opposition [...]
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 continuing prospects looking bleaker, the city of Grass [...]
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 nice. Just friendly and open and, you know, nice.
After two [...]
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 [...]
By the Time I Grabbed the Camera, They’d Stopped Nursing
The fawns bounded down toward the house where the doe was grazing and began nursing immediately, but by the time I was able to grab the camera they’d stopped.
Many Republican Leaders Still Believe in the Tax Cut Fairy
During the 1980 campaign for the Republican nomination, George H.W. Bush called Reagan’s supply-side theories “voodoo economics.” These supply-side theories included the wishful notion that tax cuts are so potently stimulative that they are self-financing. Although the resulting gargantuan deficits of the Reagan and the George W. Bush years have amply demonstrated the calamitous falsity of [...]
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 growing number of Americans think that climate change is hogwash.
They’ve been hearing that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change got [...]
Nevada City Farmer’s Market Bustling Despite Heat
I expected the turnout to be low at the Nevada City Farmer’s Market this morning because of the excessive heat, but I was wrong. It was bustling as usual.
Some good folks from a local Baptist Church set up a booth for the sole purpose — or perhaps the “soul purpose” — of handing out cups [...]
Carl Safina: The Oil Spill’s Unseen Culprits, Victims
Carl Safina’s voice breaks as he recounts the story of a bottlenose dolphin in the Gulf that tried to get rescued by a passing fishing boat. The dolphin was splattering oil out its blowhole. The fisherman at first moved his boat away from the dolphin, because they scare off fish. Within a minute the dolphin [...]
More Signs That Peak Oil Thinking Has Become Mainstream
A new report, produced jointly by Lloyd’s of London and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (aka Chatham House), concludes that “we are heading towards a global oil supply crunch and price spike … companies which are able to plan for and take advantage of this new energy reality will increase both their resilience and competitiveness. [...]
