Steve MasoverWithout Consent: Tar Sands “Valve Turners” visit UC BerkeleyI spent Friday evening on the UC Berkeley campus, in a lecture hall full of activists and community members gathered for dialog with the…Feb 13, 2017Feb 13, 2017
Steve MasoverA half-dozen things to consider three weeks after electocalypseHere’s a 2600 word post in a six-bullet, tl;dr listicle:Nov 29, 2016Nov 29, 2016
Steve MasoverProtest is dead. Resist, or be eaten.The United States of America has demonstrated that Americans choose to live in an ungoverned country. I don’t mean a lawless country. I…Nov 9, 2016Nov 9, 2016
Steve MasoverWhat I learned at the 2016 Bioneers ConventionI went to my first Bioneers conference after watching from afar and reading about the organization’s work for quite a few years. This past…Oct 25, 2016Oct 25, 2016
Steve MasoverMichael Pollan, Michael Moore Moments, and Humankind’s FutureI was surprised and gratified to see Michael Pollan’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times: Big Food Strikes Back: Why Did the Obamas Fail…Oct 6, 2016Oct 6, 2016
Steve MasoverShould we care how crops are grown *before* food insecurity spreads?Vandana Shiva, trained as a physicist and known worldwide as an analyst, activist, and advocate for biodiversity, organic farming, and fair…Aug 11, 20164Aug 11, 20164
Steve MasoverDesperate books aren’t suited to desperate timesThere’s always been a place for apocalyptic tales in fiction and film … from the Book of Revelations and Paradise Lost, to Mad Max and The…Aug 1, 2016Aug 1, 2016
Steve MasoverReal Politics amid the DrumpfooleryLast night the Oakland City Council held its scheduled second reading of a ban on coal handling and storage that was originally approved in…Jul 20, 2016Jul 20, 2016
Steve MasoverCoal hazard “protection” fallacies exposed by Oakland public health expertsThe City of Oakland will rally on the afternoon of Saturday 25 June outside City Hall, in opposition to the prospect of coal storage and…Jun 20, 2016Jun 20, 2016
Steve MasoverThe Pursuit of BoredomThe other day a friend pointed out an article by Sandi Mann in The Guardian. The title was Why are we so bored? The author got me…Apr 27, 20161Apr 27, 20161