Tue, February 9, 2010

Does Anyone Care If Los Angeles Burns?

Posted 5 months, 1 week ago

I pulled on my big sun hat and pulled out a well-worn copy of Mike Davis’s Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster for beach reading in Santa Monica this weekend. His chapter titled “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn” kept me company as I watched the ash cloud to my…

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Peak Oil’s Marketing Problem

Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

This week’s Op-Ed in the New York Times titled “Peak Oil is a Waste of Energy” by energy consultant Michael Lynch was a virtual pandora’s box, judging from the number of comments left by readers. Any op-ed piece is self-evidently open for dispute, and dispute this one the New York…

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Dear William T. Vollmann: Give Us Imperial County Back

Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago

This is the second in a series of posts about Imperial County, CA.

Four cultural geographers conspire to write a book on Imperial County. They meet, at will, on a university campus emptied for the summer to discuss possible themes and create themselves some deadlines. They toss around the…

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