pollution | pollution
May.08.2013
Delphine was shocked when she first visited Palestine. She discovered a massive wall slicing brutally through towns and farms, keeping people from work, schools, hospitals, and sometimes their families. She found a land in which...
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Apr.02.2013
A Traveler’s Notebook: ‘Chinese Dreams’ Covered in Smog There’s an ongoing joke in China that both captures the long standing competitive nature between Beijing and Shanghai while tying it neatly with the country’s number one preoccupation: pollution. “In Beijing you just need to open your...
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Jan.03.2013
Crowds are rushing to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum these days to experiece the amazing display of China's Terracotta Warriors: the Legacy of the First Emperor. Much more has been uncovered in that vast burial site since we were in...
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Sep.16.2012
Nearly one month ago, the Chevron refinery in Richmond caught fire. It happened while I was at a Left Coast Writers event. I drove home through an unfamiliar kind of fog. In the San Francisco Bay area, our fog is fluffy, clean, and smells of the Pacific Ocean. Chevron's fog was something else...
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Aug.31.2012
We've got a huge moral dilemma in this country and in the world. We want economic recovery but we have got to quit manufacturing all the junk that we don't really need. We're in a jam, it's damned if we do and damned if we don't. When we go shopping for anything that isn't biodegradable sooner than...
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Aug.15.2012
Twilight is when the sun goes down and light reflects on dust particles and clouds. The only reason we have twilight is because of dust in the atmosphere and the way the sunlight scatters it. Bringing pleasant sensations since the beginning of time, twilight is classified as the light from the sky...
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Feb.11.2012
If ever a man personified the forces that may eventually destory the United States and even, perhaps, the world, I think Dick Cheney will be numbered among the finalists.
What can you say about this man who demands war while not serving himself, hiding bethind deferments because he had more...
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Sep.19.2011
No matter how hard they search, Democrats in Congress can’t find any coat tails under Obama’s mummy bandages. And they have yet to recover from the horror of watching helplessly last week as voters in New York City bestowed a congressional seat on a Republican. By a wide margin...
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Jul.12.2011
Airborne chemicals are embedded inside our homes. They swirl around us as toxic gases emitted from the poorly-labeled bottles of cleaning fluids in our kitchens and bathrooms, from the bug sprays and air fresheners we use, and from the glues, sealants and flame retardants in our furniture. They...
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Jan.01.2011
Northern Ontario and Canada’s Caribbean are as far apart in reputation as in distance, but they’ve been my home. Seven months of winter or of rain, I made peace with my environment by taking Ortega y Gassett’s advice: “Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are.” The...
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