I received this email from the Bear-Yuba land Trust yesterday: Friends of BYLT, This is one of the most important letters we will ever write. We would like to alert you to a serious community threat that is upon us if we do not act now. In the past year, two critical organic agricultural…
Editor’s Note: Mike Shea posted the following letter to the Cedar Ridge Nextdoor website on April 15th. Cedar Ridge residents will be most powerfully affected by Rise Gold’s planned noisy operations. Idaho-Maryland Mine Reopening—Noise Impacts April 15, 2020 Dear Neighbor, In case you haven’t heard, Rise Grass Valley, Inc.—a subsidiary of a Canadian company,…
I heard an interview with Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield on the Tim Ferris podcast last night. What a wonderful healing experience! Kornfield is a wise elder, and understands how to deal with fear and other difficult emotions in dark times. His talk is peppered with stories. He tells of a Buddhist teacher leading his…
“The public utility is a much better option because you’re not having to worry about maximizing shareholder returns and you will make the safety investments that are necessary.” by Jake Johnson, staff writer Rep. Ro Khanna in an interview Friday voiced his support for public ownership of PG&E, the largest private utility company in…
Dozens of interviews and a review of records show that virtually every aspect of the blaze had been forecast and worried over for years. Every level of government understood the dangers and took few, if any, of the steps needed to prevent catastrophe. by Keith Schneider for ProPublica On the afternoon of July 23, a tire on…