Dr. Andrea Cook of the CA Center for Sustainable Energy on the Fires, Water & Climate Change

Exclusive for The Light Connection by David S. Cohen

From the beginning of her career in science, Andrea Cook has been posted on the front lines of Global Climate Change. Encouraged by a gifted seventh-grade science teacher to design and conduct her own experiments, she enrolled in the University of Michigan, where she got involved in a special summer research program to measure the effects of elevated carbon levels on plants and eco-systems. The passion and dedication of the three hundred other scientists there convinced her that she'd found her life's work. Accepted into the Climate Change Ph.D.. Program run jointly by UC Davis and Dr. Walt Oechell at San Diego State, she soon found herself in the Arctic measuring how the plants on the tundra absorbed or released carbon, a project that led to the discovery that the permafrost that was thought to be storing twelve-thousand years of excess carbon was in fact already thawing and releasing that carbon into the atmosphere.

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FoodBites: A Potpourri of Flavors
Plus Lavender Recipes & News to Use
by Jennifer Joe

Our region's climate, local farmers, and growers provide us with a cornucopia of flavorful and seasonal delights. Freshly picked Valencia oranges, grapefruit, lemons, peaches, plums, apricots, avocados, eggplant, corn, peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet onions, cherimoyas, raspberries, boysenberries, and blackberries are some of the tasty treasures you may find at a Farmer's Markets, in your CSA box, Co-ops, farm stands, or stores, as Summertime begins to shine through.

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The Voice of Fate vs. the Voice of Destiny
by Robert Ohotto

The following excerpt is taken from the new book, Transforming Fate into Destiny: A New Dialogue with Your Soul by Robert Ohotto.  It is published by Hay House (March, 2008) and available at all bookstores or online at www.amazon.com He is one of the featured speakers at Hay House's I Can Do It! Conference in June in Las Vegas. Visit www.ohotto.com

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The Great Shift
Kirael & Kahu Fred Sterling
An Exclusive TLC Interview with Kahu Fred Sterling by Steve Hays

Kahu Fred Sterling is a medium who channels Kirael, called a master guide “on a journey into the ancient worlds of Lemuria and Atlantis, and into the world of extraterrestrials and UFOs,” and more. His book The Great Shift speaks of this time as being a profound evolutionary period in human history. Home-based in Hawaii, he is coming to Southern California in July.

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The Secret is Out!
By Danielle Chavalarias

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”

— William James, pioneering American psychologist and philosopher

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SUNRISE POWERLINK
A Battle for California’s Energy Future
By Lawrence Hogue

The battle over the Sunrise Powerlink begins as far back as the early 1980s, when San Diego community groups fought another eastern transmission line, the Southwest Powerlink. Those were the early days in a struggle between two competing visions of our nation's energy future: one, a system of massive, centralized power plants sending energy to cities through a network of transmission lines, and the other, a decentralized energy system using rooftop solar, energy efficiency, cogeneration and more. Proponents of the latter options pointed out that the centralized system is far less reliable and secure than a distributed system, vulnerable at any point in the chain to a human-caused or natural disaster.

Unfortunately during the Reagan-Bush-Deukmejian-Wilson years, the centralized vision won out. The Southwest Powerlink was just one of many projects that put us on the road to the energy crisis of the early 2000s, and the heavily centralized and regulated system we have today.

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