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Personal Democracy Forum (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Hurricanes might gather force, low-lying areas pool with water, and wildfires rage much as they long have. But today they rise as a challenge to a different American people. From mobile phones to Twitter, the communications networks woven into our daily lives would be unrecognizable to the victims of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. That much is obvious. But it's probably also fair to say that...
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If You Have To Ask (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lyrical Fixation: Southern California Example Lyric: "L.A. is the place, sets my mind ablaze For me, its a race through a cotton pickin maze" How It All Started: Those sample lyrics are from the Red Hot Chili Peppers very first single, "Out In L.A." From that point on, references to California ("Under the Bridge," "Californication," etc.) have occupied almost...
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Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | yesterday
Arthur Mathews (Markesan, Wisconsin, 1860 - San Francisco, California, 1945) led a group of progressive Californians who believed that fine art and design served the public good. After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, he and his wife, Lucia, also a designer led the effort to rebuild the city's fine public spaces. The pastoral scene in Spring Dance resembles civic-minded murals created for museums,...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
LOS ANGELES -- A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock.
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Flavorpill San Francisco Events (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Nov 5 – Dec 30 Tuesdays–Fridays (10:30am–5:30pm) Saturdays (11am–5pm) @ Fraenkel Gallery Carleton Watkins moved to California in 1851 and soon established himself as one of the most important Western landscape photographers of the time. In 1864 his images of Yosemite played a part in convincing Congress to set aside the land as a national park. Even today, his strikingly crisp...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
New research demonstrates that deep creep may mean milder, more frequent earthquakes along SoCal's San Jacinto fault, making it a less likely candidate for a major earthquake than its neighbor to the east, the Southern San Andreas fault.
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Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Pity the poor commuters in the Bay Area this week. The Oakland Bay Bridge, which carries about a quarter million cars per day, is closed . An emergency repair put in place this past Labor Day weekend failed, dropping a couple of tons of steel down on the bridge deck. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured. The Oakland Bay Bridge is a perfect example of the need for reliable infrastructure funding....
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California High Speed Rail Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
At next week's CHSRA board meeting the board will vote on a staff recommendation to award the $9 million PR contract to Ogilvy , a leading public relations communications firm. It's not a surprising choice, as Ogilvy has extensive experience in California political communications. From the Capitol Weekly article on the topic: Ogilvy Managing Driector Christi Black said her frm received a letter from...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
State highway officials say high winds and traffic vibrations caused a patch on the cantilevered section of the San Francisco Bay Bridge to fail. That's scary. High winds and traffic vibrations are hardly abnormal conditions for the Bay Bridge. Three sections of the support system crashed onto the roadway of the bridge's eastern span, between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island, hitting three cars during...
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MATTER MAGAZINE (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
By Tina Casey San Diego Gas & Electric has embarked on a demonstration project to test the commercial viability of a new concentrated solar power system that uses shallow pools of water as a passive cooling system for high-efficiency solar cells. The unique proprietary technology was developed by Pyron Solar of Sorrento Valley, California. The new technology could be attractive in land-rich areas,...
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The Westerner (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Strict conservation, new dams and a peripheral canal are all on the table after six weeks of closed-door negotiations to solve the state's water crisis and restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta ecosystem. Leaders in the state Senate and Assembly are still discussing how to pay for the plan, which could cost $9.4 billion. The Legislature could vote on the plan as soon as the end of the week....
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The last time you watched CNN or read The New York Times online, you might have been surprised to see reporting by ordinary people. From photos uploaded instantly of the earthquake in Indonesia to video of the tsunami in American Samoa to live-blogging from a student protest at the California State University at Fullerton, all of these reports represent a new kind of news reporting. What is citizen...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Concerro, Inc., the market leader in enterprise-wide hospital shift and emergency workforce management software, is pleased to announce the successful use of its CommandAware® hospital incident management system during the Great California ShakeOut – the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history - held October 15th to help improve disaster preparedness. More than...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Another way to save lives in the Pacific NorthwestSome time soon, a powerful earthquake will trigger a massive tsunami that will flood the Pacific Northwest, destroying homes and threatening the lives of tens of thousands of people, says Yumei Wang, a geotechnical engineer at the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries in Portland.The region's geology makes an earthquake-triggered tsunami...
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ChattahBox (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
(ChattahBox)—California’s San Francisco Bay Area experienced a devastating magnitude 7.1 earthquake 20 years ago, killing sixty-three people. Perhaps if an early warning system had been in place, providing a precious few seconds of warning, lives may have been saved. That’s the hope of a seismologist working with the University of California, Berkeley to implement an [...]
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