Category: Environment

Rock Paper Scissors back in the news?

 Frank Gormlie  May 5, 2009  11 Comments on Rock Paper Scissors back in the news?

We have just heard from friends in the know that Rock Paper Scissors and its controversial closure is back in the news – sort of. The Reader, San Diego’s predominant weekly, is supposed to be carrying an article on it in its Thursday’s edition. Jeff Fagan, the original owner of the arts and crafts store, reportedly refused to be interviewed. …

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A Day Without Tourists – Tijuana Versus the Plague

 Source  May 5, 2009  3 Comments on A Day Without Tourists – Tijuana Versus the Plague

by Mike Davis

“Since everyone is dumping on Mexico these days, you might as well help me do the real thing.”

My friend Marcos Ramirez (aka “ERRE”) isn’t kidding. He’s building a new house in Colonia Libertad, Tijuana’s oldest and most surrealistically colorful neighborhood …

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An Arch to Build a Dream On

 Mary E. Mann  April 27, 2009  10 Comments on An Arch to Build a Dream On

By Mary Mann

Walking down the long row of trailers, I wonder how I will recognize the one that belongs to Daniel Wallace and Judith May. They all look the same. As I near it, though, the ownership of the mobile home is made obvious by a preponderance of what their makers refer to as wobblies, wooden creatures, each with a name and a story. I should have known there would be something.

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Shepard Fairey is not a crook.

 Frank Gormlie  April 23, 2009  1 Comment on Shepard Fairey is not a crook.

by Steven Heller

Even before Shepard Fairey’s Barack Obama “Hope” poster became the focus of legal and ethical scrutiny — for Fairey’s use of Mannie Garcia’s A.P. news photo as the basis of the now ubiquitous image — some design critics and practitioners had already questioned the street artist’s habit of “sampling” existing imagery. A scolding essay by Mark Vallen, entitled “Obey Plagiarist Fairey,” which was published online in 2007, accused Fairey, who created the “OBEY GIANT” project in 1989, of “expropriating and recontextualizing artworks of others.”

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Today Is the 20th Anniversary of OB’s Green Store

 Frank Gormlie  April 22, 2009  12 Comments on Today Is the 20th Anniversary of OB’s Green Store

Twenty years ago today, Colleen Dietzel and Kip Kruegar and other local environmentalists opened The Green Store on Voltaire Street for the first time. It was Earth Day 1989 – April 22nd.

Ever since, the iconic ecology store has steadfastly held its ground, offering books, magazines, bumper stickers, buttons, posters and other green products and mementos, while also serving as an anti-corporate space, a meeting site for area groups, and the headquarters for any thing green in OB.

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Average San Diegan’s carbon footprint larger than average Los Angeles resident’s

 Source  April 22, 2009  1 Comment on Average San Diegan’s carbon footprint larger than average Los Angeles resident’s

The carbon footprint of the average San Diegan — including residential energy use and transportation — is larger than that of the average resident of Los Angeles, a review of available data shows. San Diego lags behind LA in policies and programs to reduce energy use.

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Sacramento’s Tent City torn down – the real story and how the media got it wrong

 Source  April 21, 2009  4 Comments on Sacramento’s Tent City torn down – the real story and how the media got it wrong

Dozens of city and county workers descended on Sacramento’s tent city on Thursday, and within hours cleared the area of all signs of the sprawling homeless encampment.

PLUS

Over the past few months, reporters from around the world have flocked to the now-famous tent city in Sacramento, Calif. When they find out that 55-year-old John Kraintz has been living in a tent for almost seven years, they turn around and walk away.

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First Annual OB Global Rockfest! Photo Gallery

 Jon Carr  April 20, 2009  4 Comments on First Annual OB Global Rockfest! Photo Gallery

By Jon Carr

We told you there would more photos to come!

Here are more pictures I took throughout the day, along with some sent to us by our friends Jeff Stone and Pat James. If anyone else would like to add to the mix, please feel free to send in your shots with a brief description.

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OB Rockfest a picture perfect day

 Jon Carr  April 20, 2009  0 Comments on OB Rockfest a picture perfect day

by Jon Carr

Saturday April 18th, 2009 was the first annual OB Rockfest. A picture perfect day without a cloud in the sky and plenty of locals and visitors getting together for fun, sun, music and a little dose of environmental awareness.

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Town Hall Meeting on City Budget in Ocean Beach Monday April 20th

 Anna Daniels  April 19, 2009  2 Comments on Town Hall Meeting on City Budget in Ocean Beach Monday April 20th

There will be Town Hall Meeting in Ocean Beach tomorrow – April 20th – on the FY10 budget. This is your opportunity to get an overview by the Mayor’s staff on his proposed budget and ask questions!

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First Annual OB Global Rock Fest, April 18th, 2009

 Jon Carr  April 14, 2009  19 Comments on First Annual OB Global Rock Fest, April 18th, 2009

By Jon Carr

The first annual OB Global Rock Fest is taking place at the pier parking lot on April 18th, 2009.
The event is being promoted as “Carbon Neutral” because the stages will be powered with Solar energy and there will be plenty of environmentally conscious vendors in the grassy area between the wall and Abott street.

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Homelessness in OB

 Staff  April 6, 2009  31 Comments on Homelessness in OB

By OB Rag Staffer

Can you picture yourself being homeless and living in a tent city? That’s a frightening thought, but it is a looming possibility for more and more San Diegans as the economy gets worse for ordinary people.

Ocean Beach has a large homeless population. We see these people, chat with them and help them out with a buck here and there. But …

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