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Gary Griggs, Introduction to California's Beaches and Coast UC Press, 2010

Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz

California has 1100 miles of coastline; most of it is eroding and all of it is changing in myriad ways. Gary Griggs has written a book about the coast's history, geology, climate, and resources. He also addresses the impact of rising sea levels and the history of oil extraction off California's coast.

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Paul Edwards, A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming The MIT Press, 2010

How do we know climate change is happening, and will happen? Are climate skeptics correct when they argue that computer modeling, upon which global climate knowledge largely rests, is speculative and unreliable? In his new book, Paul Edwards describes the process of making global climate knowledge and the nature of the scientific consensus that has emerged.

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Awake and Sing!, by Clifford Odets, at Aurora Theatre

Eric Bentley, ed., Thirty Years of Treason Nation Books, 2002

Some Longings Survive Death, by Dario Robleto

Clifford Odets was called before HUAC in 1952; one of his first plays was about unionized workers choosing to strike. Walt Odets talks about his father's life and work. Also, Dario Robleto's sculptures in the UC Berkeley Art Museum exhibition Human/Nature address multiple phenomena, among them melting glaciers, extinction, and mourning.

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Alan Weisman

It's a grand thought experiment rooted in one man's passion for the environment. In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman asks, What would happen if humans suddenly disappeared? Which human creations would last, and which would not? And would nature ever fully recover?

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"'Globalization From Below' Tackles the 'Great Recession'"

"Why China Matters: Labor in the Era of Globalization"

What's unprecedented about the current economic meltdown? Can national governments effectively address the crisis, or are people's movements a better source of ideas? And why should the situation of workers in China matter to people everywhere? Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello, co-directors of the Global Labor Strategies project, share their ideas.

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Glen Martin, "Taking the Heat: Bay Area Ecosystems in the Age of Climate Change" Bay Nature

Must liquefied natural gas be imported to meet California's, or this nation's, energy demand? Rory Cox of Pacific Environment talks about the threats LNG poses to the environment and to communities. And Lester Rowntree describes the impact climate change is having, and could have in the future, on Bay Area ecosystems.