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Factory farming delivers an abundance of inexpensive food—but only if we overlook the hidden costs to the environment, human health, and the communities where those operations are located.
Factory farm operationbs have been adriot in finding locations where they are subject to minimal or freindly regulation, asserts, Dan Imhoff, editor of Tthe CAFO Reader.
CAFOs are not restricted to land-based farming, Imhoff adds. Many of the same issues are issues for salmon farming operations along the Pacific coast in both North and South America.
County Day School's Jackson Theater at 7 pm on Thursday, Oct. 14.
He made his mark creating wild psychedelic posters for San Francisco bands like the Grateful Dead. Today Stanley Mouse(seen here in a self-portrait) is still busily painting from an outpost in west Sonoma County, keeping his iconic images from the 1960s anchored in the present.
For many of the San Francisco concert posters, Mouse recalls, the visual starting point was an existing image. He and Kelly found a rich resource of those images in the city's municipal library.The library stacks were also where Stanley found the image that he adapted to become the identifying icon for the Grateful Dead.
Another iconic image came from a popular product, and Mouse says they incorporated it into the poster with considerable trepidation.These days, the art of Stanley Mouse, old and new is on display at his Rockin' Roses galley in downtown Healdsburg, a block off the plaza at 243B Healdsburg Avenue.
Most ballot initiatives fail, and 70% of the ones that pass are declared unconstitutional. But that doesn’t stop them; California voters will decide nine more on Nov. 2.
Proposition 19, which would largely legalize marijuana use by adults in California, is attracting lots of attention, but Sonoma State University Politicla Science professor David McCuan doesn't think it will be able to hold the advantage it showed in early polling. And maybe it wasn't really ever expected to.
On the other hand, Measure 25, which would scaled back the supermajority required to pass the state budget, has probably gotten a boost from the legislature's late action--again--on that very issue.
If governmental leaders around the world can’t or won’t take action on climate change, their citizens can and will, as they’ll demonstrate on Sunday.
When it comes to taking action, at any level, to reduce greenhouse gases, Trathan Heckman of Daily Acts in Petaluma says, the heat is on.
Closing off two streets around Santa Rosa's Juliard Park for six hours, which will happen from 9-3 on Sunday, is something new for the city, says Evalina Molina. But she's hoping it will be just the beginning of something much bigger.
What’s over six stories tall, and made from recycled bicycles? The newest and most talked-about piece of public art in Santa Rosa.
Seen up close, the soaring obelisk is also a kaliedoscope of color, with each of the bicylce parts still painted in its original hue.
This is hardly the first time that Greive has employed bicyle parts--especially their wheels--as a raw material for his artwork. [You can see other examples here, including some from Burning Man.] He explains he has multiple reasons for doing that.
The phot below shows the obelisk under consruction, and offers a peek of the peak that will be hard to see again, now that the tower has been installed.
The phot below shows the obelisk under consruction, and offers a peek of the peak that will be hard to see again, now that the tower has been installed.
Cyclisk (c) 2010 Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector, Photo (c) 2010 Ilana Spector.
Spector and Greive take particualr pride in having made a notable addition to the city's cultural landscape, something to add distinction to Santa Rosa's core.
