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I have always thought that the electoral process would definitely benefit from more banjos and musical saws; now the California Voter Foundation is finally making it so. In the spirit of Schoolhouse Rock, the nonpartisan voter organization has created a three minute song to help voters navigate all of the state propositions on California’s ballot [...]
With just over two weeks left until election day, more and more Californians are pledging to vote no on Prop 23, the deceptive dirty energy prop funded by out-of-state Texas oil companies and the billionaire tea-party funding Koch brothers. Several awesome videos have come out recently–some serious, some funny–but all getting the message out about [...]
I have been thinking a lot about water lately, which immediately makes me think about beavers. They are fascinating, beautiful, complex and intelligent mammals, whose ability to positively transform the landscape and create new habitat is unsurpassed. To learn a little bit more about the important keystone species, our amazing friend the clever beaver, listen to Sir David Attenborough share some beaver facts in these excellent documentary videos from the BBC:
Four Cape Verde islands have just been granted funding to build Africa’s first giant wind farm. The project is being considered a model for other African countries. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and African Development Bank (AfDB) agreed last week to give 45 million euros ($62.84 million) “to design, build, and operate” this onshore wind [...]
I grew up up in rabidly conservative Orange County California, which is anything but a bastion of lefty liberal reformers. As adolescents we referred to it as living “behind the Orange Curtain”, and dreamed of the day when we could finally escape. So it is somewhat surprising to hear from an Orange County judge that [...]
