Coyote Crossing

A note for future historians if Obama loses in 2012

[Update: What does the Desert Tortoise Website actually cost?]

If, in November 2012, the incumbent in the Presidential election loses the State of California by one vote, and the course of the nation is thereby altered, I would like to take this

Dear President Obama

The State of the Union 2011 provides a reason to trot this poster out from a couple years ago:

Want the poster? Buy it … (continues)

Sometimes I hate being right

An article on the Mother Jones site takes Obama’s administration to task for failing to protect endangered species:

Obama is barely beating Bush at protecting new endangered species—and he’s far behind his Democratic predecessors. So far, his

Obama administration grants ESA protection to front half of polar bear

Washington, DC April 1, 2010 — In what many Democratic strategists are hailing as a pragmatic political masterstroke, the Obama administration today announced that it would be granting full Endangered Species Act protections to the front half of

Mono Basin Sage Grouse Is Endangered, But Protection Once Again Delayed

From the Center for Biological Diversity:

LAS VEGAS— In response to a petition and lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental and faith-based groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that a

Obama, SOTU and the environment

I should know better than to compose posts in a browser window: Safari just crashed and took with it about 20 minutes worth of writing on Obama’s miserable-from-an-environmentalist-POV State of The Union address on Wednesday.

Fortunately, Rana

Destroying the Joshua trees in order to save them

The soil here is tawny, pale with a reddish cast, alluvium washed down out of the Black and Date Creek mountain ranges, and the Grayback and Weaver mountains behind them. Wind and flash flood have rendered the rock, pulverized it. Soft lava and old

Political blogging

Someone has been taking me to task in comments over not weighing in on the most recent blogspats, the three with which I’m most familiar having to do with race and blogging. One centered on feminist blogs, one in the LiveJournal fan community, and

Ken Salazar: bad for endangered species?

More distressing information on Ken Salazar, Obama’s pick for Interior Secretary, from the Western Watersheds Project:

While Colorado’s Attorney General, in 1999, Salazar threatened a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior if the Service

No Coal is Clean Coal

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Yes We Can drill off the California coast?

Connect the dots.

From a San Francisco Chronicle article published yesterday, written by the estimable Jane Kay.

The context:

The federal government is taking steps that may open California’s fabled coast to oil drilling in as few as three

Find that receipt

Eric has an gift or two he’s planning to return this week, including:

... Ken Salazar. But then, we actually pay attention to Interior. Its one of those “Indian Things”, like siting in circles talking to rocks, or watching the revolving doors at

Vilsack: Another Bad Cabinet Pick for USDA

Via Anuradha Mittal at the Oakland Institute, more change that looks remarkably like what we wanted to change from. Executive summary: http://www.stopvilsack.org.

An Action Alert from the Organic Consumers Association

Organic Consumers

Why The Blog World Frustrates Me, cont.

As of 7:57 PM Pacific Time, according to Technorati. Totals will change.

Ken Salazar, Obama’s pick for Interior Secretary,  will oversee resource extraction from and/or protection of one fifth of the US’s land area. Salazar has deep ties to the

Ivanpah Solar Project

Left out of my discussion yesterday of the big solar thermal proposal for the Ivanpah Valley—because I didn’t find out about it until just now—was the fact that the site that would be bulldozed for construction of the Ivanpah Solar Generating

Obama and Extinction

There is more to protecting the environment than mitigating climate change.

You wouldn’t know that just from listening to the campaign speeches we’ve all heard over the last few months. The one environmental topic that ever got brought up was

Saul Alinsky wins election

Regardless of how one feels about the candidate - I myself am shelving my cynicism about centrism, for a couple of days, out of respect for the historical milestone we witness this week - the election was a stunning affirmation of the power of a