DVD, directed by Jennifer Baichwal Mongrel Media In some ways watching Manufactured Landscapes made me think of another famously slow documentary, Baraka. But at least in that 1992 film — a montage of stunningly rich moving images of the modern world — director Ron Fricke (cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi) uses a combination of time-lapse photography and […]
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In The News
The EPA has denied California the right to enact its own greenhouse gas emissions regulations for automobiles. EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson said: “The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution — not a confusing patchwork of state rules — to reduce America’s climate footprint from vehicles.” But calling it a “patchwork” […]
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Group Therapy
One day in the not-too-distant future, Humboldt County’s anemic medical community might be on the operating table, with the area’s few remaining doctors trying to figure out how to revive it. According to Dr. Ellen Mahoney, former president of the Humboldt-Del Norte Medical Society, the county will have 40 fewer physicians within the next five […]
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Back to a Life of Grindin’?
Peter Daniel Collins’ (aka “Manifest”) music video, “Life of Grindin’” Peter Daniel Collins, 35, the local rapper known as “Manifest,” was sentenced on Tuesday to the 11 months he already served in prison for stealing $198,000 in cash from the Cher-Ae-Heights Casino in Trinidad on Nov. 1, 2006, according to the SF Chronicle . Collins’ […]
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Inside Out
Figuring out what Reuben Sorensen’s paintings mean is almost as hard as figuring out how to get to his house. I’m counting the number of bridges I’ve driven over since I turned off the asphalt road that leads west from Redway through Briceland. My compact Japanese car is way out of its element. It’s raining […]
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Farmed Fish Gone Wild
In The New York Times Magazine’s “The 7th Annual Year in Ideas,” one story addresses what’s being done to combat dwindling stocks of wild fish in the face of overfishing and environmental changes: manipulate farmed fish to taste wild. This spring, after 10 months of testing, the aquaculture company HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries created what […]
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Truths, Inconvenient and Otherwise
Today on NPR’s Morning Edition, Neda Ulaby reports that the new focus on global warming in the media may be “too much of a good thing.” Listen here . To learn more about the effects of global warming on California’s water system, check out The California Report ‘s seven-part series, Climate Change and California’s Water […]
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Can Indonesia Save the Bay?
The Eureka Reporter seems to think so. In today’s paper, they give front-page coverage to a meeting that took place yesterday between Deddy Saiful Hadi, head of Chancery/Consul for Economics with the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia, and the City of Eureka. According to the report, the meeting was a success. Hadi, unprompted, […]
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More Ferndalian psychotherapy
If Freud had a psychotherapy practice in Ferndale — that is if he could get one — he might notice how fixated the town folk are on their very tall, living Christmas tree. He might think nothing of it. After all, sometimes a Christmas tree is just a Christmas tree. But then again, Ferndale has […]
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The Ferndale update…
Psychotherapist Stuart Altschuler is going back to the Ferndale City Council for a second round of verbal jousting. Altschuler was recently denied a permit for his home-based psychotherapy office. However, it might be an uphill battle since “The decision of the City Council upon an appeal is final and conclusive as to all things involved […]
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What the FERC?!
Driving down U.S. Route 97 this past September in the Lower Klamath Basin in Oregon, Klamath Water Users Association Executive Director Greg Addington told me he expected the settlement talks to end in November. "The settlement talks?" a reporter with the California Farm Bureau asked from the front seat of Addington’s Suburban. Do you live […]
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Duh. More water good for fish.
The research arm of the National Academy of Science (the National Research Council) has reversed its previous findings on Klamath River flows. According to a recent press release from OregonWild, a Portland-based environmental organization, the NRC has determined that increased flows in the Klamath River are likely to benefit salmon. OregonWild, once part of the […]