Palm trees offer lazy high-fives While little girls jump up, twirl, and lunge out of reach and the cotton candy sky keeps watch. Earbuds seranade the pace, slip out, are replaced As workers stare, craning–Where’s the bus? Each breath, each stride a glimpse into a different sidewalk saga While the chocolate-tinged waves offer old… [Read more…]
June 4, 2010
The debate about the relation between food and class has blown up in the last week, beginning with Michael Pollan’s New York Review of Books essay that outlines the American alienation from its own food culture through homogenization of food on behalf of corporations. Grist food editor Tom Philpott laid focus on the fact that… [Read more…]
June 3, 2010
Robert Danziger is an inventor, award-winning musician, energy co-generation pioneer, joke teller and Monterey County local who spoke at the Panetta Lecture series May 17 alongside former Vice President Al Gore (rebroadcasts playing this month). Danziger’s new book , A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Energy Independence, is a glimpse the first years of renewable… [Read more…]
August 5, 2011
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