The below flyer is the climate-meme a growing number of us face. The past year has set off many climate-related alarm bells due to wildfires and extreme weather. After decades of exposure to its corrosive mental effects, experts, activists, and the public are … Continue reading →
Following the February 15th, 1928 passage of Senator Thomas Walsh’s Resolution 83 that ordered the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carry out an investigation of the country’s electric industry, the agency worked until the end of 1935 on the … Continue reading →
Following the February 15th, 1928 passage of Senator Thomas Walsh’s Resolution 83 that ordered the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carry out an investigation of the country’s electric industry, the agency worked until the end of 1935 on the … Continue reading →
Following the February 15th, 1928 passage of Senator Thomas Walsh’s Resolution 83 that ordered the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carry out an investigation of the country’s electric industry, the agency worked until the end of 1935 on the … Continue reading →
Following the February 15th, 1928 passage of Senator Thomas Walsh’s Resolution 83 that ordered the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carry out an investigation of the country’s electric industry, the agency worked until the end of 1935 on the … Continue reading →
Following the February 15th, 1928 passage of Senator Thomas Walsh’s Resolution 83 that ordered the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carry out an investigation of the country’s electric industry, the agency worked until the end of 1935 on the … Continue reading →
Following the February 15th, 1928 passage of Senator Thomas Walsh’s Resolution 83 that ordered the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carry out an investigation of the country’s electric industry, the agency worked until the end of 1935 on the … Continue reading →
Following the February 15th, 1928 passage of Senator Thomas Walsh’s Resolution 83 that ordered the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carry out an investigation of the country’s electric industry, the agency worked until the end of 1935 on the … Continue reading →
Following the February 15th, 1928 passage of Senator Thomas Walsh’s Resolution 83 that ordered the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carry out an investigation of the country’s electric industry, the agency worked until the end of 1935 on the … Continue reading →
Following the February 15th, 1928 passage of Senator Thomas Walsh’s Resolution 83 that ordered the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to carry out an investigation of the country’s electric industry, the agency worked until the end of 1935 on the … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →California lost one its most historically important anti-nuclear activists on the night of of April 27th when Dwight Cocke passed away at his long term residence in San Francisco. Dwight played the key role of getting proposition 15 on the … Continue reading →
Taking action locally to combat climate change The Thomas fire, now the largest in California history, swept through parts of Ventura County leaving fear, destruction, massive loss and plumes of smoke clearly viewable from outer space. The link… Critics Demand … Continue reading →
PG&E Disputes ALJ’s Diablo Canyon Recommendation | RTO Insider PG&E says it will challenge a California ALJ’s recommendation that it be granted only $190 million for the retirement of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. The problem with subsidizing nuclear … Continue reading →
The below is an editorial response to an August guest commentary in the San Luis Obispo New Times using economic numbers to claim that it would be inordinately expensive to replace Diablo Canyon with solar power. Mr. Henry’s piece is … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →As a sample for the kind of Yankee activity in the Bay Area in 1852. In this case, Oakland prior to its becoming a town in 1853, one of the more prominent business activities was the killing of waterfowl. Below … Continue reading →
Santa Cruz Big Trees Peculiarities of Their Growth. SPRINGING FROM OLD TRUNKS The Present Giants of the Forest Descendants of Greater Progenitors San Francisco Chronicle – Sunday, June 9, 1889 – Page 2 While wandering through the Big Tree grove … Continue reading →
Bolander warns California of the danger of logging the Redwoods Daily Alta California, Volume 18, Number 5954, 29 June 1866 Front page 2nd column half way down By Professor Henry N. Bolander The Redwood Forest The following extract is from … Continue reading →
The following piece is from Jacob Wright Harlan’s diary and book titled California, ’46 to ’88. Chapter 24, pg. 108 Based on his detailed commentary, Jacob probably arrived in the Redwoods in May of 1847, took a month to chopped … Continue reading →
REDWOOD Sequoia Sempervirens “For they sing to my heart, And it sings to them evermore.” —J. P. Lowell Albert Kellogg (1813 – 1887), a physician and botanist, wrote an essay at the end of book on redwoods. Kellogg, a founder … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Introduction This is the story about one of the most beautiful parks in the Bay Area. Thanks go to a friend (Cecile) who introduced me to the East Bay’s parks. After spending most of the last ten years in bed … Continue reading →
Memories of a Movement by Mark Evanoff CHAPTER 1 SELLING THE PEACEFUL ATOM “It is no wonder that some people wish we never succeeded in splitting the atom. But atomic power, like any force in nature, is not evil in … Continue reading →
Memoirs of a Movement By Mark Evanoff Epilog Diablo Canyon is in operation, but the anti-nuclear movement has not lost the energy war. PG&E is no longer allowed to build power plants whenever and wherever it likes. California’s public agencies … Continue reading →
Memoir of a Movement By Mark Evanoff CHAPTER 10 PAYING FOR A $4.3 BILLION MISTAKE “Diablo Canyon is another Achilles’ Heel in a country that has too many already, and is a tragically expensive way of getting where we don’t … Continue reading →
Memories of a Movement By Mark Evanoff CHAPTER 9 BUILDING A BACKWARD REACTOR “I wasn’t exactly popular around the office then, because most people thought I was just kind of nitpicking and that I was just stirring up trouble when … Continue reading →
Memoirs of a Movement by Mark Evanoff CHAPTER 8 BLOCKADE AT DIABLO “The cops surround us, scores of them, and we sit and make statements, snack and sing. _ Wavy Gravy unzips his green jump suit to reveal his Santa … Continue reading →
Memories of a Movement by Mark Evanoff CHAPTER 7 DIABLO CANYON: CONSERVATIONISTS AND INDUSTRIALISTS COOPERATE “Protecting something as wide as this planet is still an abstraction for many. Yet I see the day, in our own lifetime, that reverence for … Continue reading →
Memoirs of a Movement By Mark Evanoff CHAPTER 6 MANIPULATING THE SYSTEM: CREATING LAWS TO STOP NUCLEAR POWER “The Supreme Court decision was unfortunate or misguided. The nuclear industry is dead until these laws are repea1ed.” -Lou Bernath San Diego … Continue reading →
Memoirs of a Movement, Mark Evanoff CHAPTER 5 THE OTHER PLANTS: POINTING OUT THE FAULTS “PG&E has a public-be-damned attitude and only pays lip service to conservation. Nuclear power plants are the new toy that every utility wants — they’re … Continue reading →
Memories of a Movement by Mark Evanoff Chapter 4 HUMBOLDT BAY: “A TEMPLE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF MANKIND” Humboldt is a symbol of the great good that can come from an enlightened partnership of industry and government. Humboldt is but … Continue reading →
Memories of a Movement by Mark Evanoff CHAPTER 3 CREATING THE BODEGA BAY ATOMIC PARK “The crucial issue here, as I see it, is not Bodega Head itself, but the whole sorry example of unplanned exploitation. I often feel that … Continue reading →
Memories of a Movement by Mark Evanoff CHAPTER 2 PG&E INVESTS IN A DREAM “Norman Sutherland was intrigued by the atom and did everything he could to stimulate it in industry. Sutherland didn’t have to be pulled into atomic power, … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Just as the advent of the Atomic Bomb has been considered the greatest threat to humanity, the coming of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) computer could very well be our last techno race. Elon Musk, the founder of Pay-pal and Tesla … Continue reading →
Imagine having a fight with a relative over watering their chem-lawn or converting it to native grasses! California has a problem with too many people who’ve migrated here with the cultural mindset that they must have a grassy lawn and … Continue reading →
Executive Summary The following material includes a review of the recent decision by the California State Lands Commission (SLC) that extended Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s (PG&E) lease of state lands but denied a proposed Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The … Continue reading →
Californians could soon experience a retake of the disastrous 2001 Energy Crisis if the public doesn’t get involved in making major changes to the Public Utility Reform Act of 2016 that will be taken up by the State Senate later … Continue reading →
On April 22nd, the East Bay Times published a commentary by a representative of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) calling for the deregulation of the state’s corporations by cutting back on the powers of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Part 4: Financial Methods Chapter 15: Overcapitalization Chapter 16: Watered Stock Chapter 17: Other Instances of Watered Stock Chapter 18: The Defense of Inflations Chapter 19: Inflations Challenged Chapter 20: Do Inflations Affect Rates? Chapter 21: Rates Chapter 22: Prodigious … Continue reading →
Part 8: Regulation Chapter 65: Regulatory Commissions Chapter 66: Pinchot’s Plan for Pennsylvania Chapter 67: The Breakdown of Regulation Part 9: Political Activities Chapter 68: Who Rules American and How? Part 8: Regulation Chapter 65: Regulatory Commissions Regulating the Regulators … Continue reading →
Part 5: Some Typical Companies Chapter 27: The Alabama Power Company Chapter 28: Muscle Shoals Chapter 29: The Insull Utilities Chapter 30: The Foshay Company Part 5: Some Typical Companies Chapter 27: The Alabama Power Company Domestic Current at Eighteen … Continue reading →
Part 7: The War on Public Ownership Chapter 51: War On Municipal Ownership Chapter 52: Municipal Ownership Cities Chapter 53: The War on State Ownership Chapter 54: War on the West Coast 2 Chapter 55: Washington and Oregon Chapter 56: … Continue reading →
Part 6: Propaganda Methods Chapter 31: The Propaganda Forces Chapter 32: Utilities and the Press Chapter 33: The Present Trend in American Journalism Chapter 34: Control Through Ownership Chapter 35: Control Through Advertising Chapter 36: Propaganda Follows the Advertising Chapter … Continue reading →
