The Gold Rush and the Californios
By Robert Thorp Lundahl As I worked to define and write the narrative of film, “Who Are My People?”, which had originated as “Solar Gold”, I came across relevant and interesting facts that helped to...
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By Robert Thorp Lundahl In 1999, subject of the film, “Who Are My People?”, Alfredo Figueroa, directed a project to accumulate and distribute music of Early California, which has meaning to his...
View ArticleBeginnings and Endings
By Robert Thorp Lundahl Nothing is perfect in the world, says Alfredo Figueroa, Chemehuevi Cultural Monitor and Founder of La Cuna De Aztlan Sacred Sites Protection Circle. There are many beginnings...
View ArticleSaving What’s Left of the Future
By Robert Thorp Lundahl I met President José Maria Figueres at a conference in San Francisco in 2002. At that time, Figueres was the youngest elected President of Costa Rica. Faced with the destruction...
View ArticleBattling Goliath
By Robert Thorp Lundahl By Robert Lundahl As a filmmaker I spent four years, beginning in October, 2010, investigating the impacts of large solar development on the deserts of my home state of...
View ArticleThe Importance of Simple Things
By Robert Thorp Lundahl “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also...
View ArticleDo You Communicate with People?
Do You Communicate With People? By Robert Thorp Lundahl I have a story about a website that you need to read. It’s really a story about a person. One of the best communicators of our times, and how I...
View Article3 Photographs
How has our collective consciousness been shaped by the media? Where do breakthrough insights come from? What provokes life’s wonderful “aha’s”? Why do we find the spontaneous convergence of certain...
View ArticleWho Are My People? Bay Area Trailer
The Impacts of Large Solar in the Mojave Desert – Environmental Preservation and Recovery
View ArticlePerception is Everything
As Jose Ortega y Gasset – a Spanish existential phenomenologist and one of the great philosophical minds of the twentieth century – puts it, man is “a kind of ontological centaur” because he/she is...
View ArticleWhat is Environmental Communication?
By Robert Lundahl Rachel Carson, David Suzuki, Simran Sethi, and Bill McKibben all do it. All of us involved in discussing, debating, educating and advocating about all things environmental do it. Even...
View ArticleEnding Before the Beginning. Large Solar Bites the Dust in Blythe. (From May,...
Ending Before the Beginning. Large Solar Bites the Dust in Blythe. (From May, 2012) In October 2010, I was working with CAre, Californians for Renewable Energy on a project to prevent the siting of...
View ArticleThe Burden of Proof
Robert Lundahl student film, University of Oregon, 1979. Screened before U.S. Senate subcommittee on herbicides and pesticides.
View ArticleThe Killing of Kokopili
Energy developers vs. Indians in the hottest desert on the planet
View ArticleWho Are My People? 3:00 Promo
Juana Maria, the last surviving member of her tribe, the Nicoleño, her image superimposed in front of the Rose Bowl
View ArticleWho Are My People? Bay Area Trailer
RL | A applies a level of anticipatory investigative analysis to journalistic standards
View ArticleBattling Goliath
By Robert Thorp Lundahl As a filmmaker I spent four years, beginning in October, 2010, investigating the impacts of large solar development on the deserts of my home state of California. Solar...
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