Small victories: San Francisco poised to recycle almost everything the...
A few weeks ago I went on a tour of the new state-of-the-art upgrade at Recycle Central, San Francisco's 200,000-square-foot recycling plant on Pier 96 run by San Francisco's garbage resource recovery...
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When they go neutering EPA with fossil fools, we go building clean and...
Okay, so I admit that the orange plunderer-in-thief’s nomination of science-denying, oil-soaked, climate change-causing polluter Scott Pruitt to head the EPA gave me a little extra acid reflux in...
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Politics, Live and Unplugged (A photo essay to #DefendDemocracy)
Here’s the thing about being a citizen and making your voice heard. Getting exactly what you’re asking for is just a small part of why you do it. Monday’s #Dec19 #DefendDemocracy #StopTrump event...
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Saving the EPA from the Grave (A Protest Funeral Photo Essay)
Yesterday's Protest Funeral for EPA, the climate, and environmental justiceat the EPA’s regional office in downtown San Francisco was just another little piece in the multi-dimensional grassroots...
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What do we do now? TOMORROW documentary shows what's possible today
Those of us concerned about the planetary challenges of our time know the varying degrees of trepidation that can accompany a showing of yet another documentary attempting to address the world's...
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SciCli Blogathon: "I can't believe we're marching for facts" Edition...
Yup, this is, in fact (or is it a fact? who knows anymore), the year 2017 we find ourselves in, and thanks to the extraordinary verbal manure spreading machine posing as president that is America’s...
View ArticleThe Incredible Lightness of Being... Eclipsed
In this age of instant news and its inevitable twin, “instant olds,” I was debating with myself whether it’s even worth posting about Monday morning’s eclipse two days late when every conceivable...
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The haters came, saw and went to someone's apartment. Meanwhile, San...
So that was fun. Yesterday I joined some good friends at the #NoHateSF rally that converged marches from the Castro, the Mission and what seemed like everywhere in San Francisco to counter this...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel gets Trumpublicans to admit they dig Obamacare as long as you...
Jimmy Kimmel's brilliant little Jujitsu act on his show Tuesday night to troll people into signing up for the Affordable Care Act is as much a lesson in human psychology (at least the Homo Trumpus...
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Do people still care about climate change? #RiseForClimate says (HELL) YES!...
I was wondering if there was enough room left in the “finite pool of worry” for a good turnout for the #RiseForClimate action taking place yesterday, considering all the first responses and triage...
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CA Recycling Company Says They’re Drowning in Plastic, Calls for Referendum...
It’s no secret that the world has a plastic problem. By now, most people have been made aware of the magnitude of this crisis, thanks to recent high profile features by National Geographic, UN...
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State of the Union to be dwarfed by Green New Deal, says God
With all the talk about God's preferences for political candidates it should come as no surprise that the Almighty would feel compelled to make a statement of the highest divine order. By relegating...
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"Democracy isn't dying in darkness, it's being murdered in broad daylight" |...
I went to the #FakeNationalEmergency protest today at the SF Federal Building and was heartened to see so many folks taking the time out of their day to express just how grave of a situation we find...
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16 yr old GND activist: "I shouldn’t have to think about survival, I should...
After attending the rally on Friday that preceded the now-viral exchange about the Green New Deal resolution between the local youth group Youth Vs. Apocalypse and CA Senator Diane Feinstein, I once...
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24 Signs of Democracy: A Resistance Photo Journey
I’ve always liked going to rallies and protests, because the energy created by direct citizen participation is so raw and genuine. In the age of constant media filtering and digital middlemen for so...
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Signs of a Climate Emergency
The Great Highway, one of San Francisco's iconic roads that runs along the city's Pacific coastline, has been closed intermittently for the last several months due to sand intrusion and flooding from...
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Shifting culture towards nourishing a just and sustainable society, or The...
Sometimes it’s truly uncanny how synergistic human consciousness can be. I’ve always thought that the world as it exists is the result of what we collectively dream into being, and if a lot of people...
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Turn the orange blues into action: California about to pass important climate...
It’s so easy these days to get either distracted or depressed by the daily barrage of orange madness raining down on us, ranging in significance from hopelessly vapid to humanly atrocious. Coupled with...
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#GlobalClimateStrike: A March for a Livable Planet is a March for Justice
As I was assembling the posters I had printed from the 350.org Arts Kit to make signs for tomorrow’sGlobal Climate Strike, I was reflecting back on a week in which the themes of justice so powerfully...
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The Planet or The Humans: Michael Moore’s false choice a lesson in how not to...
I meant to write about the Michael Moore produced documentary Planet of the Humans right after watching it last weekend. But over the course of the week all of the wild distortions and...
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