by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 14, 2012 | Community, Education, Farmers Markets, Farming, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
In the 1970s, Flint, Michigan was the richest city per capita in the United States. Now, it is the poorest. The population has declined 40% while violent crime has increased inversely. Buildings are boarded up. People are in despair. In the heyday of General Motors,...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 13, 2012 | photographs, Politics, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Nevada City, California For many years now, residents of Nevada City have understood that people can save a river. Lately, California budget assaults on Yuba River State Parks have spearheaded a new campaign of activism; local students have been gathering signatures...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 13, 2012 | Farming, Sustainability, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Part of my coverage of the 10th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival: January 13-15, 2012, in Nevada City, CA. They were expecting to be doctors, accountants, lawyers, chemists, physicists, historians, anthropologists. Instead, the twenty some, twenty-something...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Dec 11, 2011 | Community, Essays, Sustainability |
“It’s coming on Christmas They’re cutting down trees They’re putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on” Joni Mitchell It’s mid December again, smack dab in the middle of the holiday season....
by Carolyn M. Crane | Nov 6, 2011 | Abbey Country, Community, Essays, Farming, Mining, Polemics, Politics, Sustainability |
It has been a typical couple weeks on Facebook in the land of leftie politics. Whether I am visiting the group for Save The Scenic Santa Ritas down in Abbey Country, or reading a post from a local food activist here in Nevada City, or perusing the many leftie slogans...
by Carolyn M. Crane | May 23, 2011 | Abbey Country, Education, Sustainability |
Photographs from Abbey Country “It pleases me, loving rivers.” Raymond Carver The San Pedro River flows north from Mexico into southeastern Arizona. It is one of the last free flowing rivers in the Southwest. At the San Pedro River Riparian National Conservation...
