The November 2007 issue of the Humboldt Economic Index is out. The above graph represents seasonally-adjusted lumber production in the county — 55 percent of total manufacturing employment, according to the Index’s authors. And slipping rapidly, apparently. In other Economic Index news: Home prices continue to drop , though home sales rallied somewhat.
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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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Monday Morning Papers
The Chronicle reports that Humboldt State is now the last member of the California State University system to have no building named for private donors. Probably not for lack of trying. A new history — Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans — is reviewed in the Chicago Tribune . According to the review, […]
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Klamath Dams = Toxic Waste?
That’s the argument being advanced by Klamath Riverkeeper and the Yurok and Karuk tribes in a $1 billion lawsuit filed yesterday. The Associated Press gives the rationale: The argument is that the Iron Gate and Copco dams south of the Oregon border in Northern California create the perfect conditions for the toxic algae Microcystis aeruginosa […]
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Food Safety Alert! Metromint Flavor Water!
This just in from the Co-op folks: December 6, 2007 The North Coast Co-op has received notification from the FDA and the California Department of Public Health that Soma Beverage of San Francisco is recalling its Metromint Flavor Water with Best Before 2008/12/21 due to possible Bacillus cereus contamination. Bacillus cereus is an agent of […]
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Happy Birthday, Sara Bareilles
Friday, Dec. 7, is Sara Bareilles ‘ birthday. She’s just turned 28. Yes, that’s Sara at the top of the front page on today’s Times-Standard . (She’s in this week’s Journal too and she has also showed up on the pages of Rolling Stone , People magazine and Entertainment Weekly .) The L.A.-based singer songwriter […]
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You’re getting warmer
I remember so well the final morning hours of the Kyoto conference. The negotiations had gone on long past their scheduled evening close, and the convention-center management was frantic — a trade show for children’s clothing was about to begin, and every corner of the vast hall still was littered with the carcasses of the […]
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The view from Kyoto
Ten years. In geological time, 10 years is hardly noticed — a speck of dust. But for sentient beings, much happens in 10 years. Children grow up, parents and friends pass away, wars start and end, presidents are elected and disgraced, political parties rise and fall. In the last 10 years around 1.2 billion babies […]
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Mr. Van Eck’s Forest
Fred Marinus van Eck loved trees. The New York City investment banker owned thousands of acres of them all over the world. And it wasn’t only their cool, fragrant, fern-swept, critter-harboring selves that enchanted him, but their potential — he loved working trees, timber. And one patch he was particularly fond of was the nearly […]
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The California experiment
By Cosmo Garvin If you wiped California off the face of the planet, just made it disappear — left behind no car or SUV, politician, person or cow — you’d eliminate only about 1.6 percent of the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. Keep California and lose Texas, and you’d more or less double […]
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Eureka Books: Sold!
It could have been a real tragedy for Eureka intellectual life, but what a happy ending! Eureka Books, an indispensable Old Town institution, has been bought by two of the bookiest people we know: Scott Brown, editor of Fine Books & Collections magazine and pinch-hitting columnist , and Amy Stewart, celebrated author and Journal gardening […]
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Press Issues and Global Warming
Copies of the new NCJ are usually hitting Arcata and Eureka right about now. Not this week. It looks like there were some problems at the printers last night, and the Journal won’t be going out until this afternoon or tomorrow. We haven’t seen any copies yet. Here’s a tease, though. This week, the Journal […]