Why I don't have a candidate
Seeing that most of the American media including Daily Kos has been in full throttle about a presidential election that at this moment is almost a year away, I’ve been feeling the peer pressure to get...
View ArticleWith the People's Voice cancelled in Paris, people voicing call to climate...
With the main march as well as a number of other civic events that were planned to accompany official negotiations at the COP21 climate conference in Paris cancelled, organizers have called on people...
View ArticleMeanwhile, the Supreme Court deals a severe blow to humanity's future. Google...
Those are the exact words of a text message I got from one of my friends at the EPA last night, in response to this:In a major setback for President Obama’s climate change agenda, the Supreme Court on...
View ArticleThe chance the Birdie missed (but is still within grasp of a reusable mug)
By now, everyone has seen the iconic photo of the bird landing on Bernie Sanders’ podium at a recent rally in Portland. While the reactions to what’s come to be known as the “Birdie Sanders” incident...
View ArticleHow to transform a burst of Bernie Power into a renewable source of Bernergie
An article posted a few weeks ago at The Atlantic entitled What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic Countries by Finnish native Anu Partanen offers some great insights into Northern European democracies...
View ArticleSpringtime at Joshua Tree (a National Park Week Photo Story)
As National Park Week is coming to an end, I thought I’d share some of the photos I took last week during a visit to Joshua Tree National Park.In light of Congress’ Anti-Parks Caucus dedicated to the...
View ArticleThe Day Liberals Reclaimed Patriotism
I think my favorite part about last night’s Democratic convention — right after President Obama’s oratory master class and VP Joe Biden’s no-nonsense takedown of the clueless orange wanna-be dictator —...
View ArticleSeparated in San Francisco
There are very few situations in life in which the idea of being separated would seem attractive. However, on Polk Street in San Francisco, right in the heart of one of the most bustling corridors...
View Article“Have You Noticed Your Energy is Cleaner?”
“Have You Noticed Your Energy is Cleaner?” is the subject line of an email I recently received from San Francisco Water Power Sewer, the public utility service that administers the city's recently...
View ArticleSmall 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticlePolitics, 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...
View ArticleSaving the EPA from the Grave (A Protest Funeral Photo Essay)
Yesterday's Protest Funeral for EPA, the climate, and environmental justice at the EPA’s regional office in downtown San Francisco was just another little piece in the multi-dimensional grassroots...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleSciCli 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDo 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...
View ArticleCA 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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