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Legalization of cannabis has been a very hot topic across the country, especially as a potential tool to help revitalize our nation’s sagging economy. In California, an initiative to legalize, regulate and tax pot, Proposition 19, is on the ballot in November. Recent polls show the proposition is leading with the support of 52% of [...]
Last week I went to the opening of this fascinating exhibit, which runs through August 28th; railLA is a working group formed by the LA chapters of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects to raise awareness and get people excited about high speed rail. Above, Gunnar Hand, Chair of railLA, speaks with [...]
I came across this window when I was walking on Valencia Street in San Francisco last month. I thought about the increasingly grotesque inequities in the distribution of wealth in the United States, and how destabilizing that is for our economy. CEO’s getting paid 600 times more than their employees? That is incredibly fucked up. [...]
Dr. Devra Davis In a book to be released next month, epidemiologist Dr. Devra Davis argues that cell phone use is a major factor in an increase in brain cancer and other diseases. The founding director of the Board on Toxicology and Environmental Studies at the National Academy of Sciences, Davis calls cell phone radiation [...]
The amount of toxic petroleum that the BP oil spill catastrophe spewed into the Gulf of Mexico is now estimated at over 170 million gallons. This makes the disaster the worst oil spill ever in history, greatly exceeding even the devastation wrought by the horrific Ixtoc spill in the Gulf in 1979, which lasted for [...]
