The first of five slips, or “quays,” at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historic Park. These semi-subterranean walkways surround the quay.
In my entry on the SS Red Oak Victory ship, I told you I would return in a few weeks with the story of the Richmond Kaiser Shipyards. Shipyard […]

Cell Block “C” at the Fort Ord Stockade Confinement Facility. This abandoned prison was where the “Fort Ord 14” protested unfair treatment and poor prison conditions.
While studying at Berkeley’s Geography Department, I had the unique privilege of taking classes from professors like Dick Walker and Ruthie Gilmore. Both focused much of their […]

A Satellite Image of Europe at Night. Courtesy C. Mayhew & R. Simmon (NASA/GSFC), NOAA/ NGDC, DMSP Digital Archive
You have to wonder what effect was of the recent?viral campaign to reduce France’s power consumption.? Lights Out! was the brainchild of France’s Alliance for the Planet. Online groups and e-mail forwarding helped propel the campaign into […]