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Dirt Family Values A very well written piece on my favorite place and people (“I Left My Heart in Uranium Springs,” Aug 7. 2019). Just one day with these people and they will become family. I have been going to End of Days events for nearly two years and I try to not miss any of them, especially Detonation. These people have become so much like family that we even make up smaller events in between big events

just as an excuse to hang out with our “dirt family.”

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Wireless Threats I recently saw a list of around 70 new Verizon cellphone towers that are to be erected in Santa Rosa. Seems like the telecom industry is just rolling out technology as fast as it can, before it’s common knowledge that the technology

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isn’t without risk to our health. Although municipalities in Marin County are putting the brakes on cell towers, this kind of precautionary wisdom is spotty throughout the state. I wonder why the review process the Santa Rosa City Council uses is only concerned with aesthetics, like whether the tower should look like a eucalyptus or a pine tree, and not whether the technology is safe?

The $30 million dollar National Toxicology Program study’s chief finding is that non-ionizing (non-tissue heating) radiation causes adverse health

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effects, especially in children with developing nervous systems.

Seeing this list of tower construction left me momentarily hopeless, but then a mom spoke up about not wanting her kids to be exposed to disease-causing agents like wireless radiation. She had fire in her voice that moms get when their child is threatened. She’s talking with other moms to take action at school and minimizing her families exposure to wireless signals at home. Maybe the next million mom march will be on environmental health and safety issues?

I urge anyone interested in this topic to attend the free lecture, “Keeping safer in a wireless world.” It will be held at the Rincon Valley Library in Santa Rosa Aug. 17 at 2pm.

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Poppycock Nicole West’s letter (Aug. 7, 2019) dissing the grape people in Sonoma County does not provide any insight whatsoever into the problems associated with the grape growing industry. She claims that she is shocked to see “a person in a hazmat suit.... spraying something from a tractor.” What does she think is a better way of protecting the person who is working? She claims to have “a background in ecology,” so why not provide the best safety gear available?

Organic farmers do the same thing.

She claims that “birds, frogs, dragonflies, etc...” are being “eradicated” because of the spraying and goes on to say that vineyards are essentially “ecological dead zones.” She then states that “there is a link to this spraying” and child cancer rates in the county. This is totally undocumented B.S. written by a person who has a gripe with grape growers, but doesn’t come clean about it. And then she tries to take the Bohemian to task because you do not join her cause inferring that you do not realize you are “swimming in a toxic soup” because you are “lost somewhere between sips of Zin.” The grape people are trying very hard to make to make the county a world-class destination. Nicole West should try to

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Change comes to Puerto Rico. Will America be next? BY NINA TEPEDINO

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We and the whole world have witnessed 15 days of nonviolent revolution with a victory against corruption and oppression, with pots and pans clanging, famous hiphop performers, signs, art, songs and chants: “Rossello Renuncia!” “Rossello Renuncia!” with marching demonstrators numbering over 1.5 million.

America and the whole world has watched Puerto Ricans shoulder to shoulder, refusing to leave, but remaining in dialogue, passion and solidarity to break the bonds of oppression and corrupt policies, long endured for almost three years since Hurricane Maria. This is a great movement in the Greater Antilles. This is a wave of oceanic fervor and resistance to change the tide of a dishonest government.

President Rossello has officially resigned.

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I believe we have been presented by the government of Puerto Rico with a gift of courage to resist, to demonstrate non-violently and to loudly shout: No more! Can we be inspired to act in a power of the people revolution? We, too, must no longer be silent.

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COMING SOON? Piazza’s plot awaits the bulldozers.

Housing Hurdles As Sebastopol development prepares to break ground, city pol wants housing BY TOM GOGOLA

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he sign says one thing, but the facts say another—and raise a question: Will construction on the much-anticipated Hotel Sebastopol ever begin?

The boutique project up the block from the Barlow complex of retail and restaurants has been subject to pushback from some residents as plans for the multi-faceted facility were being drawn up five years ago. The proposal, among other things,

signaled a sea-change for a town that honored and amped its agricultural heritage to one that was more interested in tourist-friendly boutique hotels catering to the wine economy.

The developer, Piazza Hospitality, operates upscale restaurants and hotels in Healdsburg and beyond.

The sign on the lot—former site of Sebastopol Tractor—says to expect construction to begin this summer. That’s not going to happen. Even as the developer has worked with the city planning department to address issues

related to disability access, light pollution, solar panels on a carport roof and landscaping issues, Piazza still has to go through another round of approvals from the city as it prepares its construction management plan.

That plan, says city planning director Kari Svanstrom, includes addressing things like road closures, tree protection, noise control during hours of operation, erosion and dust control, securing the site with a fence, construction truck entry points, storm-water protection and more.

During development of the plan, locals expressed concerns over the character of the town—but many also folded in the issue of affordable housing in Sebastopol, and the lack of it. That issue may come to a head in coming months as the city considers another project—the build-out of lots behind O’Reilly Media on Gravenstein Highway.

A developer called City Ventures has come forward with a vision, if not a plan, to potentially buy the lots and develop housing.

The company’s CEO, Phil Kerr, told the West County Times the company wants to hear from locals about what sort of housing, if any, to develop on the two lots.

The property is adjacent to the West County Trail. They’ve been hearing from at least one local; Michael Carnacchi.

Sebastopol is no different from Healdsburg or Sonoma or Windsor when it comes to the intersection of affordability and tourism. For Carnacchi, town cobbler and Sebastopol city councilman, the question is simple: Can Sebastopol do a better job of encouraging housing development that could, for example, provide options for prospective hotel workers?

“We don’t have a lot of places here to build affordable housing,” notes Carnacchi, who says that if the City Ventures development comes to pass, he may “push for an aspect that’s 100 percent affordable in the new development.”

His vision is of humble yurts and tiny homes. City Ventures’ other developments are condo projects in the $650,000 to $1 million range. That’s great for a summer dacha, but what about local workers already squeezed by high rents and a low prioritization of affordable housing?

“This could be a perfect example of how infill development could work,” he says, “and how it could work with the new hotel.”

Carnacchi’s vision could also be a hedge against future traffic nightmares downtown, already an issue. In the short-term, the Piazza plan will include some road closures and reconfiguring the surrounding sidewalks to provide

Festival, the Sonoma County Fair and a blood drive.

Even as the region’s tourism economy lags from the 2017 wildfires and the flood, the overall revenue picture for the Piazza Hospitality group, says Shea, is looking pretty good: “Overall total revenue is up from years prior” among their various businesses in the region, which include the h2Hotel, Hotel Healdsburg and a quintet of upscale restaurants.

The development arrives as Sebastopol is, like many burgs, struggling to deal with the advent of short-term rentals in its midst. That has driven up rents, driven out poorer residents and contributed to a growing chasm between the tourism economy and the cost of living.

Restaurants workers by and large live and work in Sonoma County but are increasingly faced with rising housing costs. According to a recent county-funded study, In order to accommodate employment growth, replacement of fire-related losses and overcrowded housing, the county would need to build 26,074 by 2020, or 6,500 units a year between 2016 and 2020. Between 2013 and 2017, the county averaged 716 permitted units per year.

Sonoma County commissioned the study from a firm called Beacon Economics following the 2017 fires. One takeaway that’s applicable across the small tourists towns of the North Bay: Hotels such as the Sebastopol Hotel can maximize their potential only if there’s a greater balance between the needs of the many and the pampering of the few.

Rising home prices and rents and a robust short-term rental economy have underscored the need for additional housing units across the county, “but the supply response has consistently fallen short,” the study noted. That’s as true in Sebastopol, says Carnacchi, as it is in Sonoma County at large.

The county report concludes that “connecting the dots from underbuilding to economic growth, to the extent the county builds insufficient numbers of housing units, it is also limiting the job and overall growth of the local economy.”

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for ease of and safety of egress for all residents, not just hotel guests.

“Yes, road and sidewalk closures,” says Svanstrom in an email. “They are reconstructing Brown Street and have sidewalk improvements throughout.”

None of that’s been approved and Piazza has submitted “some of this information to date, but not all,” to the city, says Svanstrom.

As for City Ventures, “they have a long way to go before they get their permits in, get it to the design review board or the planning commissioners,” says Carnacchi.

Carnacchi would also like to see consideration of any plan that would keep cars off local streets. “If one of those parcels was developed as wholly affordable— you’d have the workers who are working at the hotel, for instance, would live right next to the West County regional path. That means no cars, no gas, no insurance costs for local workers who could walk to and fro from work,” he says.

Carnacchi’s scoping out a future Sebastopol—whether behind the O’Reilly offices or elsewhere—that could provide a path to ownership for young persons in the service economy who can’t swing $1 million for a condo, but could float a reasonable mortgage note on a tiny home.

None of this is Piazza’s problem, of course. They’re in the business of developing hotels and restaurants, not housing their workers. And they’ve got a few problems of their own to sort out before ground-breaking.

Piazza spokesperson Circe Shea says in an email that they’re close to breaking ground in the fall, “pending construction and weather-related variables.”

The hotel’s on high-enough ground to not be impacted by the flooding that hit the city in February. She says the proposed hotel is safe from any 100-year flooding events that may occur.

And Piazza’s been trying to be a good neighbor. Back in 2017 Piazza put out a call to the public to see if anyone had a suggested interim use for the lot. Since then they’ve had a few “activations” on the property including the Sebastopol Documentary Film

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Dining SWEET RETREAT The tasting lounge at the Gravensten Appe Fair is a reverie of good food and drink.

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o prepare for this story, I felt I had to take a trip by bicycle to a place I already knew did not exist.

I’m not talking about Ragle Ranch, which is a real-deal Regional Park in Sebastopol and the site of the 46th annual Gravenstein Apple Fair this weekend. Back to those apples in a moment. The place I was thinking about is this residential street, near where I grew up, that can barely be glimpsed from the

road. While on an evening bike ride in a dream I had, the street was revealed to be a charming little one-block stretch of treelined business district—you know, with cozy cafés and shops, the kind of street you find in the nicer sorts of cities.

The Gravenstein Apple Fair, being one of the nicer sorts of fairs, has a street like that, speckled with sunlight and shadow from leaves of live oak trees, an enclave called the Artisan Tasting Lounge. Maybe it’s a stretch—the Tasting Lounge, to be sure, is situated amidst a

country fair jammed with activities, food and drink; not a break in some suburban monotony—but the feeling of delight in discovery hit the same note.

“It kind of has a VIP quality to it,” says Sonoma County Farm Trails board member and tasting lounge organizer Lauren Bowne.

“We try to make it really nice, and kind of like a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the fair.”

Initially launched as a cheeseand-adult-beverage pairing, and a one-on-one conversationwith-the-cheesemaker (“It was

really great,” says Bowne, “but it’s kind of hard logistically to schedule tastings at a fair”), the lounge has expanded in the last five years to include all kinds of local makers of food, wine, cider, beer and this year, nonalcoholic fermented kvass. Each maker offers a small glass or bite and the opportunity to talk, in a more relaxed setting than the packed cider and brew tents.

I swear I saw you there, Ellen Cavalli of Tilted Shed Ciderworks, pouring Gravenstein-based craft cider. And you, Ashby Marshall of Spirit Works, this year mixing up a ginger-apple whiskey fizz with their rye whiskey. And you, too, local food writer Michelle Anna Jordan, who’s returning to offer a savory blueberry risotto, chat with visitors and maybe sell them a cookbook or two.

That’s enough Wizard of Oz dream theme—but it does jive with this year’s theme, “Farmers Forever.” This year’s poster artwork evokes Rosie the Riveter more than Dorothy—a woman sporting a tattoo and holding a ripe, goldenstriped Grav. The artwork appears on bottles of Tilted Shed’s special cider release for the fair, which benefits Farm Trails and is available outside of the fair exclusively at Oliver’s Market, sponsor of the Craft Cider Tent. Mild, mellow, but with a thirst-quenching, craft-cider tang like a wild sour beer, this hits the spot after a long day in the sun cutting hay—or bike riding to the fair, where you’ll get a $3 discount on the gate admission fee. Bike parking is hosted by Sports Basement.

When I reached the street of my dreams, I found it wasn’t even a street at all, it was a cul-de-sac, with no exit. There’s no way back through the Artisan Tasting Lounge, either—go around as much as you like, but it’s a oneway ticket with no ins and outs.

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ard apple cider is a refreshing, lowalcohol alternative to wine and a gluten-free substitute for craft beer. It also helps save heritage apple trees in Sonoma County. But, you knew it’d lead to harder stuff, didn’t you?

When Tilted Shed Ciderworks cofounders Ellen Cavalli and Scott Heath moved their operation into a little Windsor warehouse space in 2014, they found helpful neighbors in Sonoma Brothers Distilling. Inspired by Calvados, the French apple brandy that’s also a strictly controlled appellation (like Champagne), the shedsters brought their cider next door to be distilled and barreled down. When

it’s aged to their liking, they’ll be able to sell bottles of it from their tasting room (only)—like most very small-batch brandies.

Meanwhile, Chris and Brandon Matthies have already released their Sonoma Brothers apple brandy ($50), which is pressed at Tilted Shed, fermented and distilled by the brothers and aged in lightly toasted American oak barrels for two years. Made from Sonoma County Gravenstein apples, it’s a little reminiscent of flakey apple pie crust. The faintly appley, softly floral spirit has extracted sweet vanilla—from the oak, plus some spice, and the body is like a heathery Highland whisky.

Fine and delicate, this is only available at the tasting room.

Up in Healdsburg, Jason Jorgensen is happy to distill just about anything you throw at him, and a year or so ago fate threw him a bunch of apple brandy he’d already distilled for the suddenly shuttered Sonoma Cider venture.

Aged in 30-gallon, charred American whiskey-style barrels, Alley 6 apple brandy ($45) has even more buttery, apple pie spice notes, an amber-gold hue, and is a touch friskier and hotter on the finish than the Brothers’ brandy.

Down in Sonoma Valley, wineries reach out to the Sonoma Coast to source Chardonnay grapes, and the same goes for apples. Prohibition Spirits makes two apple brandies from West County apples, bottled under their Chauvet label.

“I thought it was interesting that everyone was into the Gravenstein apple,” says cofounder Fred Groth.

“But nobody was doing anything with it, spirit-wise.”

At Prohibition Spirits, Fred and Amy Groth distilled two brandies with local apples: a rough-chopped, fermented and distilled brandy from Sonoma County Arkansas Black apples ($45) that’s light and sweetbodied, and what they call a more “Calvados-style” Gravenstein apple brandy ($52) that’s aged in Pinot Noir barrels, and is earthier and drier—more like a dry style of rye.

Make a cocktail if you wish, but these spirits, the distilled essence of Sonoma County apple heritage, are fascinating sipping on their own.

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groundbreaking lizard extinction research could predict the wrath of climate change—and what to do about it BY LAUREN HEPLER

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n three refrigerated closets set to precisely 15, 18 and 21 degrees Celsius, Barry Sinervo is using several dozen salamanders assembled in small plastic tubs to predict the future.

On one metal shelf is a contingent of surreal-looking “Mexican walking fish” called axolotls—a nearly-vanished species from the Mexico City canals forged by the Aztecs. Other shelves hold endangered Santa Cruz long-toed salamanders and a black-and-red-spotted species native to the Sierra Nevadas.

“These are going extinct,” Sinervo says as he wrangles a lanky giant salamander. The cast of creatures changes often at the

lab in UC Santa Cruz’s coastal biology building, but the goal stays the same.

“We gotta save them,” Sinervo says.

The focus on amphibians—in particular Sinervo’s first passion, lizards—may seem niche within the wide world of evolutionary biology, but scientists find them an excellent proxy for the physical and social changes climate change spurs in all kinds of species. Sinervo uses the data he gathered over three-plus decades of tracking extinctions and adaptations to hone universal formulas that may also predict extinctions for birds, fish and mammals.

“In a funny way, I’m the Nostradamus of biodiversity,” says Sinervo, a trained

mathematician and herpetologist (a biologist who specializes in reptiles and amphibians). “We can prove the sixth mass extinction is happening now.”

The affable 58-year-old, whose office door says “Dr. Lizardo,” has a remarkably sunny demeanor for someone who made a career out of predicting environmental catastrophes. He credits his upbringing in Ontario’s rugged Thunder Bay region with instilling an early appreciation for nature’s quirks. “I had iguanas as a kid, and I hunted snakes,” Sinervo says.

“You know the mating balls that males end up in, where you get a male copulating a male? That was my sex education.”

Eccentric humor and northern humility lend Sinervo the ability to get away with things

many academics can’t, like referencing his own TED Talk without sounding pretentious.

In that 2015 talk, he recounted how around 2001 he first noticed European lizards disappearing from their usual habitats. He and his colleagues soon found similar extinctions all around the world, pointing to a new era of mass extinction with die-offs comparable to the last Ice Age. Except this time, it’s happening much faster.

“Biological annihilation,” or an “assault on the foundations of human civilisation” are how recent reports describe the current era of biodiversity loss, which some researchers call the “anthropocene.” Gerardo Ceballos, of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, led ) 14

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14 Lizard Vision ( 13 a 2017 study that tracked habitat loss for 27,500 land-dwelling species. He told the Guardian, “The situation has become so bad it would not be ethical not to use strong language.”

At their home on the Central Coast, Sinervo and his wife noticed species such as the northern alligator lizard— unique for giving birth to live young rather than laying eggs—disappear from their backyard. The same emissionsdriven temperature increases causing habitats to go haywire also accelerate sea-level rise in coastal communities, which are beginning to grapple with how to protect billions of dollars worth of seaside real estate threatened by higher tides and more frequent extreme weather.

“We really have a train wreck coming,” says Gary Griggs, a coastal geologist and author who helped write recent state climate assessments with Sinervo. “Well, there are a couple train wrecks.”

From the California coastline to the mountains of Central Mexico to the Amazon rainforest and the Kalahari desert; Sinervo now reliably predicts death and destruction everywhere he goes.

But he also has a secret which helps him avoid the cynicism and depression that might accompany his line of work: It gets easier after you come face to face with your own demise.

Heat Rising Sinervo was aware of the conversation about climate change as far back as the late 1980s, while studying at the University of Washington. Back then, it was a theoretical conversation. If people didn’t take action to curb carbon emissions causing global temperatures to spike, the thinking at the time went, it was likely more species would start to disappear.

Sinervo’s frequent research collaborator Donald Miles, a fellow lizard expert and professor at Ohio University, remembers a “small but dedicated” group of ecologists and biologists sounding the alarm about climate change around

GO TIME When it comes to climate change, we have no time to wait to act, says

scientist Barry Sinervo. “It’s now. That’s what my work is showing. It’s now.”

the time he started working with Sinervo in 1993. Sinervo was always funny and enthusiastic, Miles remembers, but he was intense, working long hours and building a reputation as a prolific publisher in scientific journals.

Sinervo made a name for himself as a doctoral student and was hired by UCSC, after he discovered what he describes as a naturally occurring game of rockpaper-scissors near a research site in Los Banos. For male sideblotched lizards that come in three colors—orange, blue or yellow—he established that each group’s character traits keep the three populations in equilibrium. The orange lizards’ blatant aggression beats the smaller blue lizards, using brute force to win more mating partners. But the yellow lizards can trick the macho orange lizards by imitating females to sneak in and find more mates. Blue can still trump yellow, though, since they’re monogamous and thus more vigilant in protecting mating partners.

The “roshambo” research, as Sinervo calls it, was one of what would become many examples of how lizard evolution can shed light on an issue that confounds humans.

“A lot of people struggle with teaching gender,” Sinervo says.

“With the lizards, you can kind

of begin to grapple with all that.

They’re not just male and female.”

In the process, Sinervo also established his street cred with fellow herpetologists.

By 2007, Sinervo and Miles had worked together enough that the UCSC professor sent a grad student with Miles to Mexico on a supposedly routine research trip. Following the directions of Mexican colleague Fausto Roberto Méndez de la Cruz, the duo headed to a reliable site east of Mexico City. But they couldn’t find the lizards there, nor in several surrounding areas. They called for reinforcements.

“There were five people looking for lizards, and we didn’t find any of the species,” Miles recalls.

“Maybe it’s climate change,” he told Méndez de la Cruz.

In the following months, Sinervo made similar extinction discoveries in the Yucatán, and by 2010, a team of more than two-dozen researchers on several continents expanded the findings into a landmark article published in the journal Science under the title “Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches.” In layman’s terms, the researchers connected the dots between extinctions by proving climate change was the common link.

“Then we knew it was global,” Sinervo says. “Other people had

published extinctions that seemed enigmatic, but we could explain them all around the world.”

Professionally, things were better than they’d ever been.

Within a few years, hundreds of other researchers cited the paper, and Sinervo attracted new funding from groups like the National Science Foundation to train hundreds of graduate students in the field. In 2014, he received a $1.9 million grant from the University of California Office of the President to create an Institute for the Study of Ecological and Evolutionary Climate Impacts.

The following year, Sinervo returned from a whirlwind 26-country tour of Europe, China, the Amazon and other hotbeds for extinction. As usual, the results were brutal. He struggled to process the constant bad news.

“Oh my god it was so depressing,” he says. “For several years I was thinking, ‘I’m leaving my son with nothing.’”

But today, in his office filled with reminders of doom, Sinervo’s attitude is different. And he pinpoints exactly what changed his mind.

“You know I’ve had cancer, right?” he says.

The Brink Adenoid cystic carcinoma, or ACC, is a rare form of malignant tissue growth often found in salivary glands of the head and neck. Sinervo knew biology better than almost anyone, and the diagnosis was devastating. The cancer invaded his sinuses and soft palate, requiring a team of Stanford researchers to rebuild his throat.

Still, Sinervo was pragmatic.

Not wanting to rack up carbon emissions driving to Stanford twice a week, he took the bus from Santa Cruz to a train in San Jose to another bus in Palo Alto, which took about four hours round trip. He still grew lettuce in his backyard for vegetarian meals and insisted he and his family reuse old iPhones. Over time, his perspective shifted.

“As I normalized my fight with cancer and realized maybe I’ll

15 other parts of the puzzle.”

In the process, Griggs says, it’s entirely possible scientists like Sinervo will find themselves at odds over habitat conservation with property owners inclined to dig in their heels and protect their homes or investments. That’s to be expected, Sinervo says.

“We will need government to impose all these things,“ he says. “This is not a moral call.

Some people are just more selfish than others, and they won’t do it.

Others will.”

“I work on the equations for why we behave the way we behave, and I understand it. It’s the way we evolved.”

Sinervo worked all the way up until his surgery at Stanford in 2017, when Miles was at the hospital with his wife, who is a psychotherapist. While Sinervo underwent radiation therapy, he began work on another paper.

“Barry is not the person who gives up,” Miles says.

New Normal In January, Sinervo made it to the last destination on the worldwide extinction tour he started before his cancer diagnosis. The findings were brutal. Sinervo’s equation had successfully predicted a 60,000-square-mile extinction zone in the Kalahari desert in Southern Africa.

“That one’s mind-blowing,” he says, scrolling through heat maps on his laptop at UCSC. “This is scary shit. I get afraid sometimes of my own work.”

Sinervo is different now than he was before his battle with cancer. In his 2015 TED Talk, he came across as a quintessential dad-academic in khakis and a lime-green button up. He spoke in a measured tone, and occasionally peppered in PGrated phrases like, “The world is going to hell in a handbasket.” This spring, he took it up a notch with a stand-up cameo in comedian Shane Mauss’ science-themed show at DNA’s Comedy Lab in downtown Santa Cruz.

“I’m going to try to inject a little levity into this. Not much,” Sinervo quipped in a voice that,

post-surgery, has taken on a more nasally, slightly artificial quality.

“We’re talking about a fucking mass extinction.”

Sinervo’s curly brown hair is now gray, lending him a mad scientist vibe that’s amplified when he wears goggles to protect his left eye, which has remained closed since the surgery. It all fits when you walk into his small, second-floor office and see a series of incomprehensible equations scribbled on a white board—Sinervo’s working formulas to predict extinction anywhere in the world.

“I’m trying to make it as simple as possible,” he says of the horseshoes and commas and other symbols that denote variables like population growth and species interactions.

A natural teacher happy to explain any of his dozens of papers, there’s just one type of question that visibly irritates Sinervo, and that’s whether this issue can be dealt with, as many climate-change skeptics suggest, 20 years from now, or maybe 50?

After 2100?

“It’s now. That’s what my work is showing,” Sinervo says. “It’s now.

It’s now.”

The combination of Sinervo’s unique style and his research credentials have attracted a new generation of climate-conscious acolytes to the lab at UCSC. “Barry is sort of like the climate change guru when it comes to lizards,” says Pauline Blaimont, a 28-year-old recent grad of UCSC’s evolutionary biology doctoral program. With Sinervo’s help, she spent several summers studying how lizards in the Pyrenees mountains are (or aren’t) adapting to hotter conditions.

Blaimont, from Southern California, has always been into animals. Lizards are perfect for studying climate change, she says, since they’re exothermic, regulating body temperature by directly basking in the sun. When it’s too hot, they spend more time in the shade—allowing less time to hunt insects—and see reduced levels of physical activity until they ultimately must migrate or

face extinction. Since they’re low on the food chain, what happens to lizards also has ripple effects for the birds, snakes and mammals that eat them.

Like Sinervo, Blaimont says research has bled into her personal life. She and her partner do Meatless Mondays, and she’s distilled her advice to others into one directive: “Reduce, reuse, recycle, but in that order.”

Students in Sinervo’s lab currently study on-the-ground adaptations to climate change, like how “moms reprogram their babies for the future” by passing on altered hormones or genes.

Sinervo, who is currently most enthusiastic about reforesting the Amazon, acknowledges his efforts to “normalize” extinction through comedy, social media and other channels is “more on the edge” in the world of buttoned-up climate scientists. It makes sense, since his research has always been kind of unusual.

Miles, his collaborator, says looking at the bright side is the only real option. Reached while on a research trip in France during another intense heat wave last month, he was enthusiastic about Germany’s efforts to cut coal-fired electricity and ramp up renewable energy. In the U.S., a wave of young, insurgent leftwing politicians are also raising the profile of a “New Green Deal” or similar drastic shift away from fossil fuels.

“Species can recover,” Miles says.

Sinervo harkens back to his first job as a lumberjack cutting down trees in Canada with his brothers (one of whom, Pekka, is also a first-generation college graduate and physicist who studies the Higgs boson, or “God particle,” often described as a fundamental building block of the universe). He remembers a day when he was 16 and had to cut down an old-growth balsam tree. He started to consider the equilibrium between nature and human livelihood. “I went, ‘Wow, I’m gonna change things when I get older,’” Sinervo says.

Susan Landry contributed to this story.

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be able to overcome it, I did that in parallel with my fight against climate change,” Sinervo says.

The best way he can describe it is by comparing it to overcoming post-traumatic stress. Virtually everyone is likely to encounter cancer in some way—if not personally, then through someone they know.

“Everybody will be touched by it, and we do everything we can,” he says. “Climate change is like that. It will affect everybody on the planet personally.”

Sinervo points to examples such as mountainous areas of El Salvador and Guatemala being ravaged by drought and intense heat, making it impossible to grow food there, and contributing to the migration crisis on the southern U.S. border. And, California now experiences more frequent deadly wildfires fueled by hotter, drier conditions.

Sinervo is also wading deeper into public policy discussions about reforestation, habitat preservation and other ways to potentially reverse the impacts of climate change. At the same time, his colleagues watching the shoreline warn it’s time to talk about a point of no return with regards to the erosion threatening coastal homes and infrastructure.

Griggs is part of a team of engineers, economists and geologists hired by the city of Santa Cruz to put together a plan for what to do about oceanfront West Cliff Drive and its recurring sinkholes. At the county level, a first-of-its kind coastal armoring program is being discussed to set new rules for building seawalls, which studies show will likely erode public beaches and impact surf breaks. The alternative is retreating from coastal property—a prospect that could require buyout programs or changes in how climate risk is priced into homeowner’s insurance.

“When do we pull the plug?

It’s going to be different for the public infrastructure than private residences,” Griggs says. “Every decision that gets made is going to have a huge impact on all these

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Now, David J plays bass on Meiners’ new record under his name Darwin, So Few Comets.

“When I met David, he was the one that encouraged me to do something outside of a band, not because it’s better or worse, but because it was different,” says Meiners, who plays with—and manages—David J. “He’s pretty much a part of everything I do now.

Having him around is very cool.”

In addition to working with David J, Meiners has spent a lifetime playing in dozens of bands of all kinds of genres. “I like to keep changing it up as I get interested in new stuff,” he says.

Meiners’ last output was largely acoustic, though this new record finds him turning to an assortment of electronics to create a post-punk sound in the vein of those early loves.

“This record, of any that I’ve done, is the most reflective of what kind of music I like,” he says.

“Mostly because I gave myself permission and almost instruction to let my influences be laid bare.”

Meiners collaborated on So Few Comets over the internet with Los Angeles-based musician and producer The Singularity (Julian Shah Tayler) and several featured performers, including David J, vocalist Emily Jane White and Mark Slutsky, longtime drummer for Peter Murphy.

“I was trying to create a world where these songs would live,” says Meiners. “I wanted this to be a record, not just a bunch of songs.”

With spacey, delayed guitars, New Wave-era synthesizers, electronic drums and the like, So Few Comets creates more than a world—it’s a solar system of rock.

This weekend, the album gets a release show with Darwin performing as a full, five-piece band. “It’s going to be a very livesounding experience with a heavy nod to the record, but a totally different experience from listening to the record,” he says. “It’s going to be really exciting because I’ve never played these songs live.”

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Elephant in the Room Aug 16, Dan Martin. Aug 17, Ginny Mac. Aug 18, Intuitive Compass. Aug 20, Jon Gonzales Trio. 177-A Healdsburg Ave, Healdsburg, elephantintheroompub.com.

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Aug 18, Mr December. Aug 19, Woodlander and friends. 6780 Depot St, Suite 120, Sebastopol, 707.861.9603.

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Aug 16, Roem Baur. Aug 17, Jimbo Scott. Aug 18, 1pm, Greg Lamboy. 691 Broadway, Sonoma, 707.935.9100.

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Aug 16, XotiX. Aug 17, Motif with Spencer Owen Timeshare. 6957 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol, 707.634.6390.

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Aug 17, Darwin album-release show. 1901 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.523.2201.

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Aug 18, 2pm, Dirty Cello. 2030 Barlow Lane, Sebastopol, 707.823.2049.

Twin Oaks Roadhouse Aug 16, Bloomfield Bluegrass Band. Aug 17, Weekend at Bernie’s. Aug 18, 4pm, Blue Summit. 5745 Old Redwood Hwy, Penngrove, 707.795.5118.

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Aug 15, Bayonics. Aug 16-17, Kirk Whalum. Aug 18, 6pm, Napa School of Music Kids Garage Band 101. Aug 20, Locals Night Pro Jam. Aug 21, the King Street Giants. 1030 Main St, Napa, 707.880.2300.

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Aug 16, La Noche Latina dance party. Aug 17, Joe Ellison & Run With Patience. 1141 First St, Napa, 707.224.6664.

Aug 16, Todos Santos. Aug 17, 1pm, AlleyFest with Out of the Blue Band. 464 First St E, Sonoma, 707.935.0660.

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Aug 17, Saved by the ’90s. Aug 21, Passafire with Kash’d Out. 23 Petaluma Blvd N, Petaluma, 707.775.6048.

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Aug 18, 3pm, School of Rock Summerfest. 201 Washington St, Petaluma, 707.762.3565.

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Aug 16, the Blind Barbers. 3020 St Helena Hwy N, St Helena, 707.302.3777.

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Aug 16, Metamorphosis Music & Dance Festival. Aug 17, Kenji Yoshida. 1351 Main St, St Helena, 707.302.5130.

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Street art series features artist booths, community activity booths, games, live performing arts and public art. Aug 16, 6:30pm. Plaza St., Healdsburg, 707.431.3301.

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“New & Recent Works by Suzanne Jacquot,” the Sonoma County artist displays colorful paintings. Reception, Aug 17 at 6pm. 6780 McKinley St #150, Sebastopol. 707.329.6725.

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Musical artist Evie Ladin leads a fundraiser to help fund farm experiences for youth, with farm tours and BBQ dinner. Aug 17, 5pm. $20. Tara Firma Farms, 3796 I St, Petaluma, 707.765.1202.

Longtime fair includes live music on two stages, arts and crafts vendors, local food, cider, microbrews and wine, contests, farm activities and more. Aug 17-18, 10am. $10-$15; kids 5 and under are free. Ragle Ranch Park,

Benefit for the Center for Climate Protection includes wine and cheese reception, live music, cedar foot baths and other treatments. Aug 15, 6pm. $35. Osmosis Day Spa, 209 Bohemian Hwy, Freestone, 707.823.8231.

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Bring a blanket and sit in the garden for a screening of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Aug 20, 8:15pm. Free. CIA at Copia, 500 First St, Napa, 707.967.2530.

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Pair of comedies from 1984, “Ice Pirates” and “Top Secret,” screen together. Aug 15, 7pm. $10. Roxy Stadium 14 Cinemas, 85 Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707.525.8909.

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Speakeasy-themed theatrical experience aboard the train includes a multi-course gourmet dinner. Thurs, Aug 15, 5:30pm. $216. Napa Valley Wine Train, 1275 McKinstry St, Napa, 800.427.4124.

Russian River Beer Revival & BBQ Cook-off

Held on the Monte Rio beach, the event boasts over 30 breweries and 30 BBQ teams competing, with live music. Advance tickets required. Aug 17. $75-$100.

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Lectures Nitzanim NonTraditional Learning Individuals and families are invited to an introductory session to a new program of learning in a Jewish environment. Aug 17, 10am.

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Sit out in the lawn for a screening of “Cold Brook,” an award-winning film from the 2018 Napa Valley Film Festival.

Aug 16, 6:30pm. $10. Charles Krug Winery, 2800 Main St, St Helena, 707.967.3993.

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Learn the ins and outs of handmade pasta, starting with flour and water, in a hands-on cooking class. Aug 18, 4:30pm. $75. Miracle Plum, 208 Davis St, Santa Rosa, 707.235.2169.

It’s theater without a net when playwrights, directors and actors write, direct and present plays based on an audience-selected theme in 24 hours. Aug 16-17. $20. Raven Theater, 115 North St, Healdsburg, 707.433.3145.

See a production of “As You Like It” set against the backdrop of the historic Champagne Cellars. Aug 14-25. $20-$35. Buena Vista Winery, 18000 Old Winery Rd, Sonoma, 800.926.1266.

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"Miraculous" is not too strong a word to describe such discoveries. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Gemini, you now have the patience and perspicacity to engage in a comparable process: to find useful resources through experiment and close observation—with a hardy assist from your intuition.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Moray eels have two sets of jaws. The front set does their chewing. The second set, normally located behind the first, can be launched forward to snag prey they want to eat.

In invoking this aggressive strategy to serve as a metaphor for you in the coming weeks, I want to suggest that you be very dynamic and enterprising as you go after what you want and need. Don’t be rude and invasive, of course, but consider the possibility of being audacious and zealous.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It's relatively rare, but now and then people receive money or gifts from donors they don't know. Relatives they've never met may bequeath them diamond tiaras or alpaca farms or bundles of cash. I don't think that's exactly what will occur for you in the coming weeks, but I do suspect that you'll garner blessings or help from unexpected sources. To help ensure the best possible versions of these acts of grace, I suggest that you be as generous as possible in the kindness and attention you offer. Remember this verse from the Bible: "Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it."

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libra-born Ronald McNair was an African American who grew up in a racist town in South Carolina in the 1950s. The bigotry cramped his freedom, but he rebelled.

When he was nine years old, he refused to leave a segregated library, which prompted authorities to summon the police. Years later, McNair earned a PhD in Physics from MIT and became renowned for his research on laser physics. Eventually, NASA chose him to be an astronaut from a pool of 10,000 candidates. That library in South Carolina? It's now named after him. I suspect that you, too, will soon receive some vindication, Libra: a reward or blessing or consecration that will reconfigure your past.

SCORPIO (Oct. 3-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Zadie

Smith wrote, "In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution—is not my solution." I think it will be perfectly fine if sometime soon you speak those words to a person you care about. In delivering such a message, you won't be angry or dismissive. Rather, you will be establishing good boundaries between you and your ally; you will be acknowledging the fact that the two of you are different people with different approaches to life. And I bet that will ultimately make you closer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Nothing

fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season," wrote author and activist Bette Lord. That's not entirely true. For example, skilled and meticulous gardeners can compel tulip and hyacinth bulbs to flower before they would naturally be able to. But as a metaphor, Lord's insight is largely accurate. And I think you'll be wise to keep it in mind during the coming weeks. So my advice is: don't try to make people and processes ripen before they are ready. But here's a caveat: you might have modest success working to render them a bit more ready.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): "For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown."

Poet A. R. Ammons formulated that shiny burst of wisdom, and now I'm passing it on to you. As I think you know, you tend to have more skill at and a greater inclination toward the small, concrete, limited, and certain. That's why, in my opinion, it's rejuvenating for you to periodically exult in and explore what's large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

Now is one of those times.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am."

Poet Sylvia Plath wrote that, and now, in accordance with astrological omens, I'm authorizing you to say something similar to anyone who is interested in you but would benefit from gazing more deeply into your soul and entering into a more profound relationship with your mysteries. In other words, you have cosmic permission to be more forthcoming in showing people your beauty and value.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his AntiMemoirs, author André Malraux quotes a toughminded priest who served in the French Resistance during World War II. He spent his adult life hearing his parishioners' confessions. "The fundamental fact is that there's no such thing as a grown-up person," the priest declared. Even if that's mostly true, Pisces, my sense is that it is less true about you right now than it has ever been. In the past months, you have been doing good work to become more of a fully realized version of yourself. I expect that the deepening and maturation process is reaching a culmination. Don't underestimate your success!

Celebrate it!

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