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Aug 16
2010
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Windsor SubstationPosted by Bruce Robinson in youth , Windsor , technology , recreation , public safety , protest , planning , parks , open space , Health , families , environment , energy , current events , community , children , business , activism |
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A power struggle in Windsor is pitting homeowners against PG&E, whose engineers have concluded that the best place for a new electrical substation lies in the town’s south center area. The people already living nearby think that’s a very bad idea.

Homeowner Rosemary Olson describes the reaction she got when she shared the PG&E substation plans with an electrical analyst who has no connection to the project.
Another issue with potential health impact, says Dr. Wayne Freenman, is exposure to the constant electro-magnetic fields that would be present at the substation.

Climate Refugees is meant to be apolitical, at least in the partisan sense, says Nash (right). And even if the issue he spotlights may be new to many viewers, he observes that it has been building for years.
Horror movies and popular musicals notwithstanding, carnivorous plants do not eat people, nor do they grow to tower over us. Without that far-fetched scare factor, they are strangely beautiful…and decidedly weird.
D’Amato’s
Aside from the loss of habitat that threatens them, carnivorous plants are naturally long-lived.
When the ADA passed, it took some time for the law’s new requirements to have a visible effect. But Anthony Tusler (left), founder of 
