Monthly Archives: June 2015

A lot can happen in a week.   The Be Prepared to Stop crew met in Washington, DC to do some filming and found ourselves caught up in everything from a torrential downpour to assorted confusing traffic circles to landmark Supreme Court decisions – all of which made us a little dizzy.   Interviews with folks like economist...

After months of preparation and research, Delaware Park Productions will begin production next week on Be Prepared to Stop, a documentary about the breaking down of the delivery system that brings us most of what we need every day. These days the phrase “crumbling infrastructure” is heard on news reports almost as often as the word “pothole”. We...

Last month just off the coast of Santa Barbara county in California an oil pipeline broke. The Los Angeles Times reported that the section of pipe that cracked had worn down to 1/16th of an inch. When the pipe gave way, about 21,000 gallons of Exxon Mobil’s crude oil spilled into the Pacific Ocean near Refugio State Beach....

I found out long ago It’s a long way down the Holiday Road -- Lindsay Buckingham   Ah, summer. School’s out, the weather’s fine, and you just put new tires on the family car, so let’s roll! We Americans love a good road trip. The siren song of the open road, the wind rushing through open windows, Mom...