Blind Spot: Governor and L.A. Times Reporter See No Connection Between Water Crisis and Colossal California Population
We have yet more evidence that key California elites have a blind spot so huge that it obscures their view of 38... Read More
A Bad Omen for California’s Future? Drought Declaration Suspends State’s Foremost Environmental Law
As an environmental planner in California, I prepared many Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs), Initial Studies and Negative Declarations on flood control, road... Read More
A Tale of Three States
Half a century ago, California’s movers and shakers were giddy that the Golden State was about to surpass the Empire State –... Read More
California Drought Signals Limits on Growth
California now faces what Gov. Jerry Brown describes as perhaps the state’s worst drought since record-keeping began a century ago. Water shortages... Read More
When it Comes to Population Growth, Many Demographers Disappoint
The liberal Huffington Post regularly runs articles with which I agree about the downside of global population growth – although as consistent... Read More
California Receives ‘A+’ on Reproductive Health, Rights – But Our Population Keeps on Growing Out of Sight!
The Washington, D.C-based Population Institute recently issued a report card on the state of reproductive health and rights in all 50 states... Read More
Paper or Plastic?
Significant Plastic Problems Still Remain in a California without Plastic Bags Breaking California’s decades-long reliance on the convenience of plastic bags, local... Read More
Golden, Grizzly or Brown Bear
By whatever name, Ursus arctos survives and thrives only in areas with few humans As a kid, I was fascinated with the... Read More
The California We Lost: California’s Precious, Beleaguered Wetlands
Wetlands, once disparaged as wastelands that produce little more than muck, stench, pestilence and swarms of mosquitos, are now recognized as one... Read More
After a Lull, California’s Population Growth Rebounds
Just last year, a headline in the USC News proclaimed “a massive slowdown in California’s population growth.” Since then, however, the state... Read More