In a recent visit to Spokane, author Barry Lopez gazed into an apocalypse, and left his audience speechless.
By Beatrice Lackaff
A man at a podium, in the temperate zone of a blue planet, pivoting around Polaris, asks us to make a cultural inquiry: Who are we? Where are we headed? What have we forgotten? What circumstances will our children be born into?
November 28, 2008, (Award of Merit winner, 2009 ECO Awards for Excellence in Environmental Communication.)
Item: People are driving to Idaho to buy dish soap banned from stores in Spokane. How you can have cleaner dishes, make better use of your time, and still help the Spokane River.
Not surprisingly, my last memorable conversation with Bob Glatzer was a lively argument about a movie. I adore Meryl Streep and I thought 2009’s Julie & Julia, a clever parallel story about the legendary Julia Child and the contemporary food writer Julie Powell, was a terrific film.
