By Don Pelton I bought a Kindle book today without browsing it first, assuming that it was a collection of essays, like all of John Brockman‘s previous books. It’s actually a book of questions, one question per page, several hundred of them, by deep thinkers. The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About…
Event Details The Sierra Science Lecture Series at the Nevada County Campus welcomes Kelly Santos in a presentation titled, Implementing Youth-Led Citizen Science Through Plant Phenology. The presentation will be held on Tuesday evening, February 21, from 6:30 – 7:30 pm, in the Multipurpose Center, building, N-12. Come early and enjoy a meet-and-greet and refreshments…
Welcome to the world of environmental criminology. By Patricia Pearson / Reprinted from AlterNet June 21, 2016 Canadians are reputed to be polite. But that isn’t a very compelling argument for why the lone wolves there are less inclined to engage in the kind of mass shooting that occurred in Orlando. All three pathologies that…
Press Release Sierra Streams Institute 431 Uren Street, Suite C Nevada City, ca 95959 530-265-6090 Sixty local women needed for Community Health Impacts of Mining Exposure (CHIME 2) Study Nevada City-based non-profit Sierra Streams Institute is partnering with the Cancer Prevention Institute of California to launch an important new study on the health consequences…
The March/April 2016 issue of the beautiful environmental magazine, Orion, features an article about “a revolution in the science of dirt,” which — it claims — “is transforming American agriculture.” The article is called “Dirt First” and is written by Kristin Ohlson. Like most good stories, this one has a hero, in this case…