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Protecting Mauna Kea: Notes From the Summit
Posted by San Diego Free Press: None Given on May 30th, 2015
San Diego Free Press: I went to the Thirty Meter Telescope construction site near the summit of Mauna Kea for the first time, today. Four-wheel drive is recommended for the road that twists steeply with hairpin turns up the Mountain, so ten of us piled into a Kanaka uncle’s (older native Hawaiian man’s) pick-up truck to go see the summit. Leaving from the visitor center parking lot at 9,200 feet the road ascends over 5,000 feet to an elevation close to 14,000. While my ears popped, my sense of wonder grew. Conversations...
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Endless Summer: On the Verge of the Sixth Extinction
Posted by San Diego Free Press: None Given on June 30th, 2014
San Diego Free Press: We`ve seen a lot of bad news lately from the dismaying results of our last local election and a slew of reactionary court decisions at the state and national level to the re-emergence of the chaos in Iraq and the seemingly daily news reports of growing evidence that our widening level of economic inequality is becoming an entrenched and sadly taken-for-granted part of our new normal.
Even as we head into the heedless days of summer, we are greeted by yet more studies showing that the climate change...