By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. Will Trump shape 2027 spending? He must decide whether to weigh in as Congress divides up $1.1 trillion in discretionary spending for the fiscal year that began last [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
Health and Justice in Water Board’s Hands with Pesticide Byproduct
By Asha Kreiling Twenty-five years ago, the drinking water contaminant 1,2,3-TCP was added to the state of California's list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer. Water contaminated by this [...] Continue Reading
Disabled by Consumer Culture & Dignified Paths to our Fullest Potential
By Brian Jay Snyder I sit with great sadness upon a tree stump beside my home in the mountains of Central California. I see hundreds of tree stumps and multiple log-decks with hundreds of dead trees [...] Continue Reading
Mindfulness Walks
Fresno Mindfulness Walks – A Walk Across Fresno In May 2014, Lori Clanton founded Fresno Mindfulness Walks when she woke up on a Saturday morning and decided to walk a neighborhood other than her [...] Continue Reading
FOOD CRISIS: FEEDING HOPEFUL REVOLUTIONS, Part 2
By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Technological ingenuity, a traditional asset in the good-ol’-American-tradition, is no longer at the exclusive service of the conquering John Wayne and [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Demanding Clean Air in 2017
By Tom Frantz As the new year begins, residents of the San Joaquin Valley continue to gasp air permeated with pollution levels well above national and world health standards. During the winter, high [...] Continue Reading
Community Members Denounce City Council Refusal to Vote on Anti-Slumlord Ordinance in 2016
By Hannah Brandt It is December 8, 2016. A woman says she has been living without heat for weeks, harassed by a landlord who is evicting her even though she pays her rent. Leticia Valencia, a Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Civil Rights Groups Sue Caltrans to Stop Illegal Raids Against California’s Homeless
By Bethany Woolman December 13, 2016: According to a lawsuit filed today by civil rights groups, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is violating the constitutional rights of [...] Continue Reading
FOOD CRISIS: FEEDING HOPEFUL REVOLUTIONS | part 1
By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Small farmers, mainly women, feed 70 percent of the people on Earth. 70 percent! That means that big agribusiness, which owns or occupies more than half [...] Continue Reading
Science Lessons for the Next President
By George B. Kauffman Before our recent election, several science journalists wrote a detailed article titled “Science Lessons for the Next President,” Science October 21, 2016, [...] Continue Reading
Ooooby & Food Commons Fresno Focus on Sustainability
By Camille Russell Beets from Belgium. Strawberries from Chile. Apples from New Zealand. Crazy! Madness! We live in the richest, most productive agricultural region in the world. Yet, many of the [...] Continue Reading
Review of the film No Màs Bebés
By Kathy Ayala Director: Renee Tajima-Pena Producer: Virginia Espino A film screening for No Màs Bebés premiered at Fresno State on October 13, 2016, shedding light on a heinous period of time in [...] Continue Reading