Aren’t you glad you live in Clover country? This TV jingle is one SF Bay Area residents will immediately recognize from childhood, along with the marketed picture we were sold of happy Clo the Cow, enthroned in endless green pastures, endlessly producing milk for human children rather than her own calves. Clo the Cow appeared [...]

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“Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!” That’s what the simplest, most life-loving element inside me wants to shout when I see our vital SF Bay Area water sources being blasted with a toxic herbicide in the name of ‘controlling’ a weed. But I need to do more than shout. I need to give you the [...]

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Some 50 years have passed since Rachel Carson published Silent Spring – a book heralded by her contemporary society as the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of its era. I have just finished reading Linda Lear’s very thorough biography of Rachel Carson’s life and wonder if anyone could contemplate the story of this remarkable woman without feelings [...]

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SB 1070, Arizona’s new Immigration Law must not be tolerated or permitted in the United States of America. This law, which will require all immigrants to carry citizenship papers at all times and will allow police to demand the papers of any individual whom they suspect to be an immigrant, is evil and irrefutably un-American. [...]

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I think it’s necessary to start this essay by stating, for the record, that this article does not intend to criticize any person whom, after doing his own research, has decided that the raw food diet is right for him. This piece of writing is about why I decided that the raw food diet was [...]

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I am so frustrated, sitting down to write this article. I am so ashamed. How can people live their whole lives in California, go to school, read newspapers and many books, interact with their neighbors and yet remain so comfortably ignorant of the true history of this state that they are doomed to repeat the [...]

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If you live in Marin County or the greater San Francisco Bay Area, chances are you’ve already heard the news that Marin officials have confessed to breaking their own pesticide laws an estimated 90 times over the past decade by spraying public areas with forbidden carcinogenic herbicides. Citizens are frightened and outraged regarding the unlawful [...]

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Do you grow or eat organic food? Do you want your county to be able to forbid the GMO mongers from setting up camp in your backyard? Do you want to stop mad scientists from putting deadly drugs into food plants? Then you’re the right person to say ‘no’ to Obama’s choice of Tom Vilsack [...]

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Some vegans can be a bit preachy. Like Louisa May Alcott, they’ve hit on something good and they’re not going to miss a single chance to talk to you about it. While I’m all for evangelizing for a good cause, I’ve never been comfortable with the concept of converting people. I think each of us [...]

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Local news gives you a strong feeling about a town and its people. When you read that a small town like Bolinas, California feeds its homeless neighbors out of its own pockets, rather than through an agency, you figure their must be some very nice folks living there. But when you read about another town [...]

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