Our neighbor over at Sebastopol’s Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, has posted an excellent new essay at Resilience.org that touches upon numerous facets of current political debates over energy, economic growth, and climate change. One aspect of the essay’s thesis in particular caught my attention: Political prejudices tend to blind us to facts that fail to fit…
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Media & Media Analysis, North Bay
The $350 Million That Wasn’t: The Press Democrat Manufactures Happy Headlines
by Christopher Fisher •
The Press Democrat (PD) manufactures a happy headline about (our) benevolent capitalists giving schoolchildren big bucks A minor quibble with the North Bay’s largest paper, perhaps, but shouldn’t we, at a minimum, expect a PD headline to be accurate, not directly contradicted by the article it accompanies? The article in question appeared on Wednesday, February…
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Agriculture, Film, Public Event
A Special Screening of Women On The Land at the San Francisco Art Institute, February 25
by Christopher Fisher •
Here’s a screening coming soon of a beautiful documentary that deserves a much wider audience – Women On The Land – Creating Conscious Community – at the San Francisco Art Institute. This is one of the loveliest, most inspiring films I’ve ever seen. The film touches upon the work of several generations of women on the Northern…
