Forty years ago, a young couple lobbed a rock of altruism and hope into the middle of the pond that is Humboldt County. Decades later, the ripples from Joe Abbott and Ann Morrissey’s actions in 1977 continue to reverberate, having grown into something beyond their wildest youthful imaginations. They started small. In this week’s cover […]
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The Humble Humboldt Roots of the World’s Largest Coastal Cleanup Event
When you stand on the Earth’s surface, it seems infinite, a place beyond dimension. A human is less significant than an ant fallen into the mid-Pacific. Nothing. From space our world is less expansive. Those are often the youthful perspectives when one appraises the future. Nothing seems so fraught with possibilities, yet enmeshed with such […]