August 8 is Earth Overshoot Day
Today, Monday, August 8, is Earth Overshoot Day. This is the estimated date – as determined annually by the Global Footprint Network... Read More
California’s Amazing Trees
When it comes to trees, California is a land of superlatives. It has always struck me as incredible that this one state... Read More
My Tough Take on Immigration Has Been Tough on my Love Life
A Different Kind of Immigration Sob Story My immigrant Latina wife and I had been married for just two years when we... Read More
A Heartwarming Look at Californians’ Love Affair with Their Wildlife
Book Review of When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California By Beth Pratt-Bergstrom Several years ago,... Read More
Today is World Population Day
As critical an issue as population growth is to the future of people and the planet, it is typically given short shrift... Read More
Bill that Would Reduce Unintended Pregnancies Passes California Senate
Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended or unwanted. In a bipartisan vote of 28 to 6, the... Read More
Once-Wild West Disappearing Under Development
But Shhh! Mustn’t Mention that Rampant Population Growth is a Major Reason Why Subdivisions subdue the once Golden State. San Jose Mercury... Read More
Aided and Abetted by Humans, Wildfires are Torching Canada, California, the Planet
Ironies abound as a massive forest fire, nicknamed “the Beast,” recently brought tar sands production to a halt in the Canadian province... Read More
The Onion: We Must Preserve The Earth's Dwindling Resources For My Five Children
Since its origins in 1988, the satirical online “news magazine” The Onion has evolved into one of America’s sharpest-witted purveyors of fake... Read More
California Not Alone in Suffering through a Water Crisis; India is Baking, Blistering
Killer Heat Wave, Drought Devastate India Indian farmer in the southern state of Telangana in his cotton field, which so far in... Read More