Delta National Park | Blog

January 2012

That other, still equal goal

Posted by John Bass on 28 Jan 2012 | Comments (2)

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December 2011

Democracy - win, lose or draw

Posted by John Bass on 28 Dec 2011 | Comments (4)

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The multiple functioning bypass

Posted by John Bass on 08 Dec 2011 | Comments (10)

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“Providing drainage services” to where?

Posted by John Bass on 03 Dec 2011 | Comments (12)

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November 2011

Private fox, meet public henhouse

Posted by John Bass on 20 Nov 2011 | Comments (1)

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Does new irrigation report make case for land fallowing?

Posted by John Bass on 17 Nov 2011 | Comments (2)

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Sewer analogy > Heuristic fail

Posted by John Bass on 10 Nov 2011 | Comments (2)

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October 2011

SCOTUS friends Delta smelt, unfollows Ayn Rand

Posted by John Bass on 31 Oct 2011 | Comments (2)

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Be careful what you wish for

Posted by John Bass on 30 Oct 2011 | Comments (6)

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Managing the Delta’s necessary implosion

Posted by John Bass on 19 Oct 2011 | Comments (2)

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Smelt uptick spin

Posted by John Bass on 14 Oct 2011 | Comments (2)

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Public infrastructure / public space

Posted by John Bass on 11 Oct 2011 | Comments (0)

Tags: communication, control, infrastructure

Silo visioneering

Posted by John Bass on 07 Oct 2011 | Comments (7)

Tags: development, infrastructure, large owner axis, recreation, shimasaki memorial, tourism

September 2011

How many CFWC’s are there in this map?

Posted by John Bass on 26 Sep 2011 | Comments (7)

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Basic facts, cognitive dissonance

Posted by John Bass on 23 Sep 2011 | Comments (2)

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Newspaper editorials should be elision-free zones

Posted by John Bass on 20 Sep 2011 | Comments (10)

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After genetic adjustments, endangered fish coordinate migration

Posted by John Bass on 09 Sep 2011 | Comments (0)

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Politics’ handmaiden

Posted by John Bass on 08 Sep 2011 | Comments (0)

Tags: climate change, control, development, scarcity

Trust us, we’re () scientists

Posted by John Bass on 06 Sep 2011 | Comments (9)

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The X2 line and climate change denial

Posted by John Bass on 02 Sep 2011 | Comments (9)

Tags: climate change, scarcity

August 2011

Circumnavigational conveyance alternatives

Posted by John Bass on 19 Aug 2011 | Comments (11)

Tags: communication, infrastructure, water

Seismically-repairable, river-protecting levees

Posted by John Bass on 18 Aug 2011 | Comments (1)

Tags: artifact, exchange, infrastructure, irony

Two apologies

Posted by John Bass on 17 Aug 2011 | Comments (0)

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Draw your own conclusions

Posted by John Bass on 16 Aug 2011 | Comments (0)

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Delta-specific development

Posted by John Bass on 16 Aug 2011 | Comments (4)

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The Delta’s big money antes up

Posted by John Bass on 13 Aug 2011 | Comments (13)

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Welfare royalist solves state’s water problems

Posted by John Bass on 10 Aug 2011 | Comments (1)

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June 2011

Is this observation wrong or smart?

Posted by John Bass on 27 Jun 2011 | Comments (3)

Tags: control, infrastructure

Seeing beyond nature-culture blind spots

Posted by John Bass on 24 Jun 2011 | Comments (0)

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Frivolity is in the eye of the beholder

Posted by John Bass on 23 Jun 2011 | Comments (1)

Tags: communication, equity, scarcity

Small fish, big appetite

Posted by John Bass on 22 Jun 2011 | Comments (0)

Tags: agriculture, delta wetlands project, scarcity

“The Pragmatic, the Typical, and the Possible”

Posted by John Bass on 17 Jun 2011 | Comments (0)

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The flexible law of tough love

Posted by John Bass on 16 Jun 2011 | Comments (4)

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Complexity, ACWA, and the Delta Stewardship Council

Posted by John Bass on 15 Jun 2011 | Comments (0)

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Catch and release campground

Posted by John Bass on 14 Jun 2011 | Comments (0)

Tags: agriculture, infrastructure, speculation, water

What a Peripheral Canal could be, part II

Posted by John Bass on 03 Jun 2011 | Comments (2)

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Selling salt

Posted by John Bass on 03 Jun 2011 | Comments (2)

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What the Peripheral Canal could be

Posted by John Bass on 01 Jun 2011 | Comments (1)

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May 2011

Nunes’s Water Welfare Act

Posted by John Bass on 17 May 2011 | Comments (0)

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Comments back up

Posted by John Bass on 15 May 2011 | Comments (0)

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Are we Trolls and other questions

Posted by John Bass on 11 May 2011 | Comments (6)

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Start small, think big

Posted by John Bass on 09 May 2011 | Comments (0)

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April 2011

“Focused and limited to the Delta”

Posted by John Bass on 18 Apr 2011 | Comments (0)

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Myths are powerful stories

Posted by John Bass on 06 Apr 2011 | Comments (2)

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March 2011

Jishuku, or self-restraint

Posted by John Bass on 29 Mar 2011 | Comments (0)

Tags: climate change, exchange, nature, poetry, scarcity

What “beneficiaries pay” means in practice?

Posted by John Bass on 14 Mar 2011 | Comments (3)

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Is Big Ag the Senate and LA the House?

Posted by John Bass on 01 Mar 2011 | Comments (2)

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February 2011

Rep. Nunes calls Kern County Water Agency names

Posted by John Bass on 19 Feb 2011 | Comments (0)

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Devin Nunes doesn’t do nuanced

Posted by John Bass on 16 Feb 2011 | Comments (3)

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Delta, meet Chandigarh

Posted by John Bass on 05 Feb 2011 | Comments (1)

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January 2011

The Lockeford Microcosm

Posted by John Bass on 24 Jan 2011 | Comments (4)

Tags: equity, history, water

December 2010

“‘I’m a responsible judge. How can I seriously rule that there is a Santa Claus?”

Posted by John Bass on 26 Dec 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: control, equity, nature, scarcity

November 2010

Westlands takes ball and goes home

Posted by John Bass on 23 Nov 2010 | Comments (0)

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The world as it is, not as we wish it were

Posted by John Bass on 18 Nov 2010 | Comments (0)

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The craft of parsing

Posted by John Bass on 17 Nov 2010 | Comments (9)

Tags: exchange, water

October 2010

Who owns water?

Posted by John Bass on 29 Oct 2010 | Comments (1)

Tags: climate change, scarcity

Unnatural history 1: the Met lobs in a softball

Posted by John Bass on 13 Oct 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: communication, development, scarcity

Delta swallowed by a GIANT fish

Posted by John Bass on 08 Oct 2010 | Comments (0)

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September 2010

Leonard Cohen on Democracy

Posted by John Bass on 22 Sep 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: equity, poetry

To what degree do we “own” the Delta?

Posted by John Bass on 21 Sep 2010 | Comments (2)

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Awaiting your reply, Westlands, part II

Posted by John Bass on 16 Sep 2010 | Comments (2)

Tags: equity, irony

Awaiting your reply, Westlands…

Posted by John Bass on 16 Sep 2010 | Comments (1)

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The California Delta Transit Authority

Posted by John Bass on 14 Sep 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: climate change, control, globalization, infrastructure, scarcity

August 2010

Delta groups oppose improvement for Delta’s habitat?

Posted by John Bass on 26 Aug 2010 | Comments (0)

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Nonbinding

Posted by John Bass on 04 Aug 2010 | Comments (0)

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July 2010

That wasn’t so hard, was it?

Posted by John Bass on 23 Jul 2010 | Comments (1)

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Manmade weather

Posted by John Bass on 07 Jul 2010 | Comments (0)

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Who pays for “co-equal” goals?

Posted by John Bass on 06 Jul 2010 | Comments (0)

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Shipwrecks and the logic of abandonment

Posted by John Bass on 05 Jul 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: climate change, equity, scarcity

June 2010

Lawyers

Posted by John Bass on 24 Jun 2010 | Comments (0)

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Design, synthesis and agency

Posted by John Bass on 10 Jun 2010 | Comments (1)

Tags: artifact, communication, speculation

May 2010

Professor Glibert’s departure

Posted by John Bass on 24 May 2010 | Comments (0)

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The era of remediative technology

Posted by John Bass on 20 May 2010 | Comments (1)

Tags: equity, infrastructure, scarcity, water

In a nutshell, Westlands relapses

Posted by John Bass on 08 May 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: agriculture, irony, scarcity

$9.5M would be a bargain

Posted by John Bass on 03 May 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: control, infrastructure

April 2010

An inverted marina for the Delta

Posted by John Bass on 28 Apr 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: equity, infrastructure, tourism

Peak Water studio book

Posted by John Bass on 15 Apr 2010 | Comments (0)

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Tragedy or irony?

Posted by John Bass on 13 Apr 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: control, infrastructure, irony, nature

The Resnicks

Posted by John Bass on 10 Apr 2010 | Comments (1)

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March 2010

An egret and water hyacinth living in a slough

Posted by John Bass on 31 Mar 2010 | Comments (0)

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Delta advocates prefer tunnel

Posted by John Bass on 30 Mar 2010 | Comments (0)

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“DemoQueda”

Posted by John Bass on 26 Mar 2010 | Comments (0)

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Experimenting

Posted by John Bass on 22 Mar 2010 | Comments (0)

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Westlands’ lateral thinking

Posted by John Bass on 18 Mar 2010 | Comments (0)

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When unreason is both logical and strategic

Posted by John Bass on 16 Mar 2010 | Comments (4)

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Such a beautiful place.

Posted by John Bass on 10 Mar 2010 | Comments (0)

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Two ways of looking at wastewater contamination in the Delta

Posted by John Bass on 09 Mar 2010 | Comments (0)

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Mutually assured dysfunction 6: Paranoid-critical, Anti-government folks, meet California water

Posted by John Bass on 08 Mar 2010 | Comments (4)

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Delta implements and machines: Combine Ferry

Posted by John Bass on 05 Mar 2010 | Comments (0)

Tags: agriculture, artifact

February 2010

Webb Tract water transfer - a sign of the future.

Posted by John Bass on 27 Feb 2010 | Comments (0)

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Canada loses!

Posted by John Bass on 26 Feb 2010 | Comments (0)

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Death of a species, then of a landscape

Posted by John Bass on 20 Feb 2010 | Comments (1)

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Encounter with a ship and subsidence

Posted by John Bass on 20 Feb 2010 | Comments (1)

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Making the DNP irrelevant 3: Aquafornia

Posted by John Bass on 18 Feb 2010 | Comments (0)

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Water conservation, urban-style

Posted by John Bass on 16 Feb 2010 | Comments (0)

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Lawyering up bait and switch

Posted by John Bass on 13 Feb 2010 | Comments (0)

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Westlands, water, politics, and scarcity

Posted by John Bass on 12 Feb 2010 | Comments (0)

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Peak water studio 4: Birds in hand and birds in bushes

Posted by John Bass on 10 Feb 2010 | Comments (0)

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The private gardens of the Delta

Posted by John Bass on 07 Feb 2010 | Comments (0)

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What does public and private mean in the Delta?

Posted by John Bass on 03 Feb 2010 | Comments (3)

Tags: delta wetlands project, equity, large owner axis, speculation, tourism

January 2010

Peak water studio 3: Cows and hotels in the Delta

Posted by John Bass on 26 Jan 2010 | Comments (0)

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Fish v. Farms 11: The National Academy of Sciences weighs in

Posted by John Bass on 24 Jan 2010 | Comments (1)

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Infrastructure v. Public Works 11: Duck memorials

Posted by John Bass on 14 Jan 2010 | Comments (0)

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Blogging v. Journalism 3: Westlands

Posted by John Bass on 11 Jan 2010 | Comments (0)

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Fish v. Farms 10: The Endangered Endangered Species Act

Posted by John Bass on 10 Jan 2010 | Comments (0)

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Peak Water studio 2: Course overview

Posted by John Bass on 09 Jan 2010 | Comments (0)

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Peak Water studio 1: Terms of debate

Posted by John Bass on 06 Jan 2010 | Comments (0)

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December 2009

District Nine 1: The Maldives

Posted by John Bass on 22 Dec 2009 | Comments (0)

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Myths and Misnomers 2: Manmade drought

Posted by John Bass on 20 Dec 2009 | Comments (0)

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Mutually Assured Dysfunction 5: Gravity and the Feinstein committee

Posted by John Bass on 19 Dec 2009 | Comments (0)

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Mirage 2: Delta - QSA questions

Posted by John Bass on 12 Dec 2009 | Comments (0)

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Uncivil Engineering 3: Canal or tunnel?

Posted by John Bass on 06 Dec 2009 | Comments (2)

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Preservation v. Restoration 2: The English Fenlands

Posted by John Bass on 02 Dec 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: nature, subsidence

November 2009

Infrastructure v. Public Works 10: The Peak Water Studio

Posted by John Bass on 18 Nov 2009 | Comments (0)

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Fish v. Farms 9: Would a peripheral canal help?

Posted by John Bass on 15 Nov 2009 | Comments (0)

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Blogging v. Journalism 2: Limited water, growing population

Posted by John Bass on 12 Nov 2009 | Comments (1)

Tags: agriculture, scarcity, urbanism, water

Preservation v. Restoration 1: Delta Immigrant History and Space

Posted by John Bass on 07 Nov 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: climate change, equity, history, shimasaki memorial, tourism

Infrastructure v. Public Works 9: Norway’s National Tourist Route

Posted by John Bass on 05 Nov 2009 | Comments (0)

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Mirage 1: What isn’t a “co-equal” goal?

Posted by John Bass on 05 Nov 2009 | Comments (0)

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Ouch! Stalking horse…

Posted by John Bass on 04 Nov 2009 | Comments (0)

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Infrastructure v. Public Works 8: Delta design opportunities

Posted by John Bass on 01 Nov 2009 | Comments (0)

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October 2009

Citizen Scholar 1: Carter and Gleick

Posted by John Bass on 30 Oct 2009 | Comments (0)

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Myths and misnomers 1: The way back machine

Posted by John Bass on 28 Oct 2009 | Comments (0)

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Town v. Country 8: Dusty Utopias

Posted by John Bass on 17 Oct 2009 | Comments (0)

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Uncivil Engineering 2: The Shea Homes incursion

Posted by John Bass on 03 Oct 2009 | Comments (0)

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September 2009

Political Geography 6: The Valley Futures Project

Posted by John Bass on 30 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Mutually Assured Dysfunction 4: The status quo

Posted by John Bass on 28 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Town v. Country 7: Watergated communities

Posted by John Bass on 23 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Latent Ecologies 2: Exchange markets

Posted by John Bass on 22 Sep 2009 | Comments (1)

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Grace

Posted by John Bass on 20 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Latent Ecologies 1: Unimagined public spaces

Posted by John Bass on 19 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Mutually Assured Dysfunction 3: What do we do now?

Posted by John Bass on 13 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Town v. Country 6: Scarcity

Posted by John Bass on 12 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Mutually Assured Dysfunction 2: Dinosaurs

Posted by John Bass on 10 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Infrastructure v. Public Works 7: Coupling Infrastructures

Posted by John Bass on 05 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Fish v. Farms 8: Erich von Stroheim and Frank Norris would be proud

Posted by John Bass on 04 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

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Fish v. Farms 7: Tick tock, Delta

Posted by John Bass on 01 Sep 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: climate change, control, history

August 2009

Making the DNP irrelevant 2: Aquafornia

Posted by John Bass on 30 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Fish v. Farms 6: Mutually assured dysfunction

Posted by John Bass on 28 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Claiming and Reclaiming 3: Postcapitalism

Posted by dnpadmin on 27 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: climate change, control, development, exchange, globalization

Fish v. Farms 5: Known and unknown facts

Posted by John Bass on 26 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Uncivil Engineering: The River Islands Proposal

Posted by John Bass on 26 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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(Un)Follow the money

Posted by John Bass on 24 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Claiming and Reclaiming 2: Ideo-etymologies of the West

Posted by John Bass on 24 Aug 2009 | Comments (1)

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Claiming and Reclaiming 1: A snipe and a clam

Posted by John Bass on 22 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Political Geography 6: Bonds and budgets

Posted by John Bass on 21 Aug 2009 | Comments (2)

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Fish v. Farms 4: The Governor flexes

Posted by John Bass on 20 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Political Geography 5: Environmental Water Caucus report

Posted by John Bass on 18 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Infrastructure v. Public Works 6: The through-Delta component

Posted by John Bass on 17 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Fish v. Farms 3: Principled environmentalists and an elephant

Posted by John Bass on 16 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Infrastructure v. Public Works 5: Siphon springs

Posted by John Bass on 15 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Political Geography 4: Peripheral Canal route?

Posted by John Bass on 14 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Town v. Country 5: Envisioning a risk landscape

Posted by John Bass on 13 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: control, landscape, speculation, urbanism, water

Fish versus Farms 2: Geography of San Joaquin Valley unemployment

Posted by John Bass on 11 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Fish versus Farms 1: Oversimplification

Posted by John Bass on 10 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Town v. Country 4: “least able to pay”

Posted by John Bass on 06 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Political Geography 3: Sacramento gets all regulatory

Posted by John Bass on 05 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Technology and Community 1: Mobile harvest units

Posted by John Bass on 04 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Infrastructure v. Public Works 4: The Vernalis Gage

Posted by John Bass on 04 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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InfraNet Lab

Posted by John Bass on 02 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

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Town v. Country 3: 8 Mile Road becomes 8 Lane Road

Posted by John Bass on 01 Aug 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: development, territory, urbanism

July 2009

Infrastructure v. Public Works 3: The tunnel option

Posted by John Bass on 31 Jul 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: infrastructure, large owner axis, water

Political Geography 2: An important committee being formed in Sacto

Posted by John Bass on 30 Jul 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: control, water

Infrastructure v. Public Works 2: To perpheral or not to peripheral?

Posted by John Bass on 29 Jul 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: control, territory, water

Blogging v. Journalism 1: The Two Gates project

Posted by John Bass on 28 Jul 2009 | Comments (0)

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Town v. Country 2: Eco-coalitions

Posted by John Bass on 27 Jul 2009 | Comments (0)

Tags: development, speculation