by Carolyn M. Crane | Feb 22, 2011 | Essays, Polemics
February 22, 2011 Nevada City “I’m a woman, not a corporation.” Alice DiMecele I thought of DiMecele today as I tried to find out the actual source of Rachel Maddow’s claim that Wisconsin started the year with a huge surplus. Jeff...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Feb 6, 2011 | Abbey Country, Essays, Farmers Markets, Sustainability
February 6, 2011 Downtown Portland, Oregon This last week, traveling in one day from Sierra Vista, Arizona to Portland, Oregon was a bit like stepping from Edward Abbey’s Good News into Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. On each count this is an...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Feb 2, 2011 | Abbey Country, Essays, Mining, Polemics, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival |
by Carolyn Crane Pima County, Arizona Last Saturday, I found myself on the old Thurber Ranch outside Sonoita, Arizona, listening to a presentation about a proposed open pit copper mine. The site-coordinator, Dennis Fischer, gave an excellent presentation. He is truly...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 28, 2011 | Abbey Country, Farmers Markets, Farming |
Sierra Vista, Arizona January 27, 2011 My first morning in town, I visited the farmer’s market. My main reason for going was that I wanted to find some decent food to eat. I also wanted to show you all what a mid-winter farmer’s market in the high desert...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 23, 2011 | Farming, Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival
Text by Carolyn Crane Photos by Tony Finnerty Nevada City, California Last January 16, about a hundred people filled the meeting room in City Hall to participate in an activist workshop about the honeybee. The workshop, one of several at the Wild and Scenic Film...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Jan 20, 2011 | Essays |
January 19, 2011 Yesterday I was leaving the parking lot of the SPD grocery store with my sons, bound for yet another basketball game. As we were headed out of the parking lot I saw an unusual thing for that affluent neighborhood: a panhandler with a cardboard sign. I...
