America’s natural disaster problem
Obstacles large and small block progress. Agreement is never simple or easy. Capitalism, corporations and legacy carbon-based industries are resisting.
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California Climate Migration
It’s on— millions of leafy-lane owning California homeowners are looking around their neighborhoods this morning and many do not like what they see. I am a climate-change-denying- it can’t happen here- Northern California homeowner. I was until Wednesday. The massive wildfires in Los Angeles can’t happen up here. We still get rain, our Diablo’s ( […]
Read More California Climate MigrationHollywood Hills Wildfire
Hollywood Hills fire threatens the Sunset Strip. Four friends have fled LA. Two went south to Ensenada, two to Palm Springs where I have arrived for the week. The friends here both grew up in LA, they know every inch of the place, every mood, every era, every nook and cranny. Robbie said he has […]
Read More Hollywood Hills WildfirePacific Palisades Conflagration
Wildfire has struck Los Angeles again. Squeezed between Malibu to the north and Santa Monica to the south is the Pacific Palisades. Years ago, I spent time in nearby Brentwood. My hosts had searched for some years and when this hillside home came on the market, they packed up their house in Belair for proximity […]
Read More Pacific Palisades ConflagrationAtmospheric River Blues
Wildfire’s are as predictable now as atmospheric river’s and who ever heard of those atmospheric demons until now—
Read More Atmospheric River Bluesclimate’s cosmic joyride
There was this bizarre-Apocalypse Now- sense of going upriver hunting for a Brando gone wildfire mad.
Read More climate’s cosmic joyridethe scorching truth arrives
Much of what appears to be the disintegration of the Republican Party is perhaps simply a tantrum thrown by the fossil fuel lobby.
Read More the scorching truth arrivescedar city water grabbers
…every squirrel, rattlesnake and icemaking machine from the Mexican border to the Boise, Idaho needs more water.
Read More cedar city water grabbersWe’re all Hayduke’s now
I was Hayduke’s stunt double.
Read More We’re all Hayduke’s nowautumn backroad east
I’m a roadrunner baby Running the southern route adds two-hundred miles to the trip to Denver. Once I’d made Bakersfield, I parked at a truck stop, slept there for the night. Sunday, I made five hundred miles east to Williams, Arizona. A local tipped me off to a free campground operated by the Bureau of […]
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