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10th Annual Joshua Tree Music Festival May 18-20!

May 10, 2012
Just like the difference between the hi-desert and the Coachella Valley, the Joshua Tree Music Festival is much more relaxed, lower priced, more freeing and intimate.
  • Desert Bulletin - Missing: Jim Baker, Salton City

    Posted @ 05:15PM on 05/15/2012 by Steve - News
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    Last seen on May 12th, 2012. Driving a two door white Toyota Scion with black bra. Possibly heading North on Hwy. 86 from Treadwell Ave, Salton City towards Palm Desert.
  • Native American tribes join environmental, recreation and hunting organizations to call for a moratorium on “fast-tracking” massive energy projects on public lands

    Posted @ 08:21AM on 05/15/2012 by Steve - News
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    An unprecedented coalition of environmental leaders, tribal representatives, off-road vehicle users, writers/artists, hunters, outdoor enthusiasts, community residents and legal spokespersons are calling for a national moratorium on “fast tracking” massive energy projects on federal public lands.
  • Guest Opinion: Sacrificing the Desert for What?

    Posted @ 04:50PM on 05/14/2012 by Steve - News
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    It’s a dubious legacy of a state government that can’t maintain its highways or keep felons in prison but can arrogantly assign itself the responsibility of curing “climate change” by destroying its citizens’ economy.
  • East Jesus Art Jam Celebration

    Posted @ 09:26AM on 05/14/2012 by Steve - Culture
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    On the weekend of March 24th, East Jesus had a celebration of the successful conclusion of their fundraising campaign on Indygogo by having a weekend long Art Jam where guests came out to work on art around the EJ property, play music, and occasionally blow things up.
  • Valley on Fire: A Rallying Call to Save the Ivanpah Valley from Solar Sunburn

    Posted @ 09:08AM on 05/11/2012 by Steve - News
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    The Ivanpah Valley is a biologically-diverse region. Unfortunately, it is also ground zero for our nascent solar energy industry.
  • Alfredo Figueroa on the Aztec Sunstone Calendar for Earth Day, 2012

    Posted @ 07:58PM on 05/09/2012 by Steve - Culture
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    In honor of Earth Day, 2012, RL | A ECO is beginning to release several short videos on-line featuring Elder Historian and Chemehuevi Cultural Monitor, Don Alfredo Figueroa, on the Nahua perspective as we come to the end of the 5th Sun of the Aztec Calendar.
  • The Death of Tourism in our area and across the American West

    Posted @ 05:09PM on 05/09/2012 by Steve - News
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    We used to talk about the desert being under siege. Well folks, the siege is over. The enemy is inside the walls, and the war has begun. We either fight, or the desert people come to explore, the desert we love and respect, with its vast inspirational and soul-replenishing vistas, its wild spirit, and its seemingly endless beauty, is a thing of the past.
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