Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
Robert Rauschenberg was my favorite artist, certainly my favorite of those that have been well known. I paid a small – well, actually, not so small – fortune for a signed screenprint of his LA Uncovered #7, image above, which...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
The housing market may be in a slump right now - in part because we've been building too much sprawl - but over the next 25 years or so the US is going to experience rapid population growth, and the...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
I'm so looking forward to reading Occidental College prof Robert Gottlieb's latest book, Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press, 2007). It promises as much cultural as environmental enlightenment, examining, as the publisher puts it,...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
Ron Thomas, former director of the once-great Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, gets credit for alerting me to a riveting new book of photography, Beneath the Roses, by Gregory Crewdson. As Esquire puts it in a highly adjectival review: Cinematically lit....
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
Trouble the Water is the name of a new documentary film about the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. At this point, I bet I’ve seen a half-dozen such films, but this one is the best.What sets it apart is that it...
