California’s San Onofre Nuke Plant, although switched off, leaks radioactivity, and threatens a population of 8 million. It should be shut down permanently, today.
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Food Labeling Monsanto’s War on Life
You are what you eat…but what if you don’t know what you are eating? This November, Californians will vote on “the right to know” what is being eaten. As well, “The World According to Monsanto” looks at the risks of biotechnology to our environment and food supply.
California’s Proposition 37: Labeling Monsanto’s War on Life
You are what you eat…but what if you don’t know what you are eating? This November, Californians will vote on “the right to know” what is being eaten. As well, “The World According to Monsanto” looks at the risks of biotechnology to our environment and food supply.
Vandana Shiva: Industrial Agriculture Destroys Life
At a time when industry has set its eyes on the superprofits to be harvested from seed monopolies through patented seeds and seeds engineered with toxic genes and genes for making crops resistant to herbicides, people are seeking food freedom through organic, nonindustrial food.
Detropia: Detroit as Utopia or Dystopia?
Caroline Libresco: DETROPIA sculpts a dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering on the brink of dissolution. These soulful pragmatists and stalwart philosophers strive to make ends meet and make sense of it all, refusing to abandon hope or resistance.
Vision of Sustainable Mobility? High-Speed Rail Challenges California
Despite an eventual pricetag of $68 billion and numerous engineering, environmental and political challenges, the California bullet train offers a promising vision of sustainable mobility, posing less impacts and competitive costs than expanding airports and freeways.
Austria: Operatic Spectacles Rise from the Lake at the Bregenz Festival
The Seebühne, a floating opera stage of bewildering proportions rises every summer from Austria’s Lake Constance, the centerpiece of the annual Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival). It has staged productions such as Verdi’s “Aida,” Giordano’s “André Chénier,” Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” and next year will be Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”