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A Night With Mycologist Henry Young
EnvironmentCommunity Jan 22, 2013, by Georgia Perry 2 Comments
In the multipurpose room at Bonny Doon Elementary School—a gymnasium-meets-theater-meets-conference-room complete with basketball hoops, a piano, gymnastics mats and a stage built into the wall—local mushroom expert Henry Young is knee-deep in his talk, “Mushrooms 101.” The Rural Bonny Doon Association recruited him to teach them how to identify the mushrooms they’ve seen popping up in extra abundance around their properties lately thanks to the heavy rains. Forty-five of the Association’s members have shown up and are listening intently.
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Crowds Gather to Watch Mavericks
NewsEnvironmentCommunity Jan 22, 2013, by Jacob Pierce
From the rocky beaches of Half Moon Bay, Mavericks’ famous wave breaks don’t look large enough for aquatic-minded squirrels on water skis. And even during Sunday’s gridlock morning traffic on Highway 1, rubbernecking drivers couldn’t have made out the jersey colors on the surfers gliding the frigid walls of blue water if they squinted. But two miles from the shore, the most dangerous big wave surf competition on the West Coast was underway—where the ocean swell can snap surfboards like toothpicks in the mouth of a bulldog, as it did for competitor Rusty Long in the first heat.
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Q&A: Food Activist Sandor Katz
EnvironmentCommunity Jan 22, 2013, by Sally Neas
More and more, Santa Cruz is a hotspot for locally grown food: the county is dotted with small farms and farmers markets, it seems every third lawn has been ripped out to make space for growing food and our elementary schools are surrounded with edible gardens.
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LED Streetlights Come to Santa Cruz
NewsEnvironmentCommunity Jan 15, 2013, by Georgia Perry 1 Comments
On a wooden fence surrounding a Live Oak neighborhood, residents tacked up hand-written posters: “Move the Target sign. It’s too bright!” and “You have neighbors!” Seventy residents signed an online petition calling for Target to turn off or dim its large bulls-eye sign, which faces a residential area.
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How Fermented Foods Keep Us Healthy
EnvironmentLocalCommunity Jan 08, 2013, by Maria Grusauskas
Fermented foods have been part of the human diet since long before we discovered the microscopic bacteria responsible for their production. But just how crucial is incorporating fermented food into our diets?
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Essential Oil Therapy Can Reduce Stress
NewsEnvironmentBusiness Dec 18, 2012, by Maria Grusauskas 2 Comments
The philosophy of Christine Nickell’s practice, Botanical Reflexology, grounds itself in the fact that, in some estimations, 75 percent of diseases are caused by stress. She uses a harmonious blend of two healing modalities—essential oil therapy, or plant medicine, and reflexology, which can be traced as far back as 2033 B.C.
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Santa Cruz City Council Holds Back on Desal
NewsEnvironment Dec 05, 2012, by Jacob Pierce 3 Comments
Call it another, smaller victory for opponents of the $120-plus million desal plant project in Santa Cruz, in the wake of Measure P’s success. The Santa Cruz City Council voted last week to approve some—but not all—of the $390,000 the water department requested for the project’s next steps.
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Officials to Discuss Energy-Saving Options
NewsEnvironment Dec 04, 2012, by Jacob Pierce
Santa Cruz’s ambitious plan is to reduce its emissions to 15 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, well in excess of what the Global Warming Solutions Act suggests. And the county aims to cut emissions 42 percent below 2009 levels by 2035.
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Local Desal Opponents Get Ambitious After Victory
NewsEnvironmentLocalCommunityPolitics Nov 28, 2012, by Jacob Pierce 4 Comments
As it became clear on election night that Measure P would win by a landslide, Rick Longinotti spelled out a new agenda for desal opponents: “This changes everything,” he said. “City council will know they can’t win a vote on desalination.”
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Local Health Expert Publishes Cookbook
NewsEnvironment Nov 27, 2012, by Maria Grusauskas
In Ayurveda, every human being is a unique composition of three vital bio-energies called doshas—Vata, Pitta and Kapha. The cookbook includes a chart to help you discern your dominant dosha, as well as a key above each recipe explaining how it balances, pacifies and decreases each dosha.
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