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Char Miller

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Char Miller is the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College, and among his most recent books are "Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. the California Dream," "The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change," "Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy," and "Death Valley National Park: A History."

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The CCC built up the nation and the body politic -- can ObamaCorps do the same thing?
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Divesting ourselves from fossil fuels will not be easy, but we must act now.
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks after taking the oath of office during the 57th Presidential Inauguration. | Photo Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)<br />
President Obama's inaugural address actually mentioned climate change. It's time to do something about it.
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How Pinnacles National Monument became a National Park -- and why Red Rock still waits its turn
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When the Army Corps sent bulldozers crashing through Sepulveda Basin it damaged nature and the civic arena
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It is a great start to the new year that the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's has decided to open Southern California's waters to the once-banned sea otters.
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Buying a real Christmas tree will help reduce your carbon footprint. Here's why.
Smokey the Bear shows up at the dedication of the U.S. Forest Service's new solar array in San Dimas, CA. | Photo: Courtesy Nathan Judy, Forest Service
Solar Power is SoCal's future -- but we need need new policies to help it come online
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How a crucial victory for preservationists and all things prehistoric gave future generations an invaluable view into the past.
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Their steadfast support for and financial backing generated a tectonic shift in the state's political landscape -- in a way that didn't help them.
Property damage along the New Jersey coast caused by Hurricane Sandy. | Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Erik Swanson/U.S. Coast Guard via Getty Images)
I never meant to be so predictive. In a column I wrote this summer about the extraordinary vulnerability of the Jersey Shore to the erosive force of hurricanes, I suggested it was so vulnerable because of Nature (Mother) and nature (human). Two months ...
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Char Miller remembers the late Trinity University teacher that pushed the campus into a brave new world with his Urban Studies program.
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