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Repurposing My Surfboard What’s a white-haired guy in his 70s do when he can no longer get up on his classic Phil Edwards longboard and ride, ride, ride the waves at Old Man’s beach, San Onofre with Laguna friends? Stored in our family’s surf cabinet along with our son’s short...

Climate Change (and We) on Trial On Earth Day, my Laguna Beach friend Joe Praske and I went out to UCLA Law School to attend an event on the pending case of Juliana v. the UnitedStates. The plaintiffs are 21 young people, some of whom are children, who are suing the federal...

Climate Change: Act Locally, the Clock is Ticking Recently, I was one of three panelists addressing what I and many others regard as the defining issue of our time: a warming planet approaching the tipping point. Beyond it, the most ravaging consequences of global warming will be...

Laguna’s Rouda Is Right for the CA-48 Voters in the CA-48 have a major choice to make in the approaching mid-term elections: either we vote for Harley Rouda and a fleeting chance to give our children and grandchildren a future, or we vote for Dana Rohrabacher and the near...

A Hiking We Will Go “OK my possums, listen up!” So says our hiking leader Charlotte Masarik in her disarming British-accented English when she wishes to give us trail directions, or explain the flora and fauna we are about to encounter. Her love of the Laguna Greenbelt, Laguna...

Climate Activists Accept Another Inconvenient Truth   What a week.  Washington, D.C. in June was abuzz with throngs of climate change activists who came to the nation’s capital to hear from former NASA climate scientist-administrator Dr. James Hansen and others of his caliber...

Growth Plus Value U.S. companies are reporting their best earnings growth in more than 20 years. Around 80% of the companies that have so far reported their quarterly earnings beat the forecasts of stock analysts. This is the best quarter for topping estimates since 1994. The...

Climate-Wise Laguna With an appreciative nod to the ongoing Laguna water-wise campaign, a group of townspeople came together last summer to propose and advocate for steps to address climate change. We call ourselves Climate-Wise Laguna and have about a dozen members: retired and...

Scrooge’s Dewdrop Car Wash We all remember the recent drought in California. According to some authorities it was broken by last winter’s storms that dumped tons of snow on the mighty Sierras and provided a fair amount of rain even in the parched Southland. Still, California’s...

Art and Nature: That’s Laguna Laguna at its core and as many see it today is the result of sculpting Pacific forces, like wind and waves, and the works of artists who have immortalized in their creative renderings the beauty of its coves, headlands, coastal canyons, and hills....

Restoring an Estuary, Healing an Environment At last some positive, even inspiring news on the environmental front. With two-dozen California wildfires now nearly contained while parts of Texas, the Gulf Coast, and much of Puerto Rico struggle to recover from recent killer...

Reading in on Climate Change Intervention Yikes, summer’s almost over, and I’ve read only one of the four books I intended to read cover to cover. I want to bring all four to the attention of readers by sharing a bit about each volume. The book I read front to back was one by...

Climate Change: Cities Must Take the Lead Shortly after the White House announced on June 1 that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement did Congress fly into action to abate global warming? No. Did the Environmental Protection Agency double down on...

What Gets Measured, Gets Managed “Lose five pounds,” my doctor said after this year’s annual physical. I’ve lost them and found them again. Part of my difficulty is that I avoid getting on the scale. Unless I regularly measure my weight, I know I’ll not be able to better manage...

MacGillivrary registered that these long-standing threats to ocean health have recently been compounded by the new administration in Washington, D.C. The citizenry, he emphasized, would play the key role in conservation by activism and environmentally conscious lifestyles.