Del Martin, the pioneering lesbian rights activist whose career spanned more
than five decades, and who twice took part in California's “first” gay
marriage, has died at the age of 87.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel was today named the world’s most powerful
woman for the third year in succession by the US magazine Forbes although
the accolade was largely ignored by her home nation which already refers to
her as “Mrs World”.
image: BrightSource Energy
At the risk of sounding like a cheerleader, the scale of some of the new solar power plants being announced over the past few weeks are just astounding. PG&E has contracted with a 250 MW and a 500 MW solar plant in California, a 250 MW integrated solar plant/manufacturing facility is being built in India, and... Read more...
Maybe this is why I have trouble with fiction. From Robert Kelly’s poem “Injune”:
An angel came to me today & told me that my proud dislike of narrative reveals an unwillingness to be accountable for my own actions. I contended that narrative is mostly... Read more...
Ross Fiersten, "Junctures"
In the west we have the mountain pine beetle destroying the forests; in central USA and Canada we have the emerald ash borer, an accidental Chinese import, that has killed 25 million ash trees. The US Department of agriculture's method of dealing with is to destroy every tree within half a mile of an... Read more...
Russia was dealt a humiliating blow by its own allies today after a specially
convened summit in Tajikistan withheld support for the Kremlin’s recognition
of the independence of the two breakaway regions.