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The many accomplishments of George Washington Carver are all the more remarkable when one knows the difficulties of his childhood. Storyteller Kenneth Foster outlines them in this biographical summary.
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Kenneth Foster also will relate some of his stories about Carver at the Science Buzz Café on Thursday, Oct. 28at 6:30, at Coffee Catz in 
As much as he admires Carver's professional legacy, Foster says his greater fascination is with the inventor's personality, as he was a man of great gentleness and compassion.
In addition to being honored on two American postage stamps, this one issued in 1948 and the one above from 1988, Carver has also been recognized with a national holiday, Unfortunately, says Foster, the holiday itself never got much recognition.
For most of California, Proposition 19 is being framed as a law enforcement or public health issue. In Mendocino County, it is also an agriculture issue.
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Read the full text of Proposition 19 here.
The Village Town concept is a fresh start, as Claude Lewenz envisions it, a community built completely new and separate from what has gone before.
Designing the individual villages will be left up to the people who will live in them, Claude Lewenz explains. He offers an outline of how that might happen.
There are, as yet, no Village Towns actually built anywhere, although Lewenz says all the ideas he has incorporated into his concept have been put into practice at various locations all over the world. Why is he looking to Sonoma County as a possible location for the prototype? Well, it wasn't actually his idea.
There will be a free public meeting to further explain the Village Town vision at the Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa, beginning at 7 pm on Friday, Oct. 22. Lewenz offers a short preview in this video introduction.
Climate change activists who advocate alternative energy developments and defenders of the natural environment are increasingly finding themselves at odds, a conflict that is now playing out on two ridgetops near Dillon Beach, in northwestern Marin County.
Petaluma garage owner Chips Armstrong, one of the group trying to block the installation of the dual weather towers, explains that his opposition is based in part on the sizable subsidies being given to wind power developers.
David Williard of Sage Renewables, believes that the mistakes made 30 years ago when the Altamont wind farm was first built still color the debate over wind power today, even though modern methods have eased most of those impacts.
The proposed locations for the two test towers are shown on the map below.
