Kit Stolz

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Reporter, Story Analyst and Writer

Kit Stolz is a reporter, story analyst, and writer who moved to Upper Ojai with his family in 1991. He has written for Sierra, Wild Earth, The Los Angeles Times, and The Georgia Review, among many other publications, and is a long-term contributor to the VC Reporter. In 2004, in an attempt to keep up with the downpour of information on global warming, he began the blog A Change in the Wind, which soon attracted the attention of the environmental site Grist, to which he also contributes. He is happy to join the tribe at the Ojai Post, and gives a special shout out to another tribe of idealistic wunderfolk, Ojai's own Theatre 150, led by the hard-working team of Deb Norton and Chris Nottoli.

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La Nina is Back: Drought Ahead?

by Kit Stolz January 3, 2009

According to experts surveyed by the “Sacramento Bee,” the ocean-based weather pattern known as La Niña is back again this year, and it’s likely to bring us a third year of drought.

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Experts Agree on Rain Forecast: It’ll Be Dry. Or Not.

by Kit Stolz November 24, 2008

If you talk to the National Weather Service, they will tell you (link) that we’re in an “ENSO-neutral” condition, and for that reason they’re unwilling to predict the upcoming rain season in our region.

But according to this typically excellent story from Rob Krier at the San Diego Union-Tribune, many forecasters…

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A Cassandra with Two Guitars: Prophet, Humorist, and Singer Eliza Gilkyson to Bring “the Beauty Way” to Ventura County

by Kit Stolz October 18, 2008

Eliza Gilkyson is one of the strongest writers of folk music alive today. Her new record, Beautiful World, has been hailed both in The New York Times and the United Kingdom as one of the year’s best. Joan Baez chose two of her songs to put on her first new release…

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Global Warming Helps Cool California Coast, Study Finds

by Kit Stolz September 13, 2008

In a story that has yet to be covered by the San Diego Union-Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, or even the Los Angeles Times, this week the Ventura County Star featured on the front page (see here) a story about a San Jose State researcher, Robert Bornstein, who has found substantial evidence…

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The Confessions of Cassandra

by Kit Stolz June 10, 2008

The Ojai Music Festival is known for its adventurous spirit, for its lust for risk — musically speaking.

In turn, Libbey Bowl audiences are known for their patience, and often they are rewarded with the  unforgettable. When Steve Reich’s difficult "Four Organs" was premiered in New York in the early…

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GROWING UP NAKED: Rain Perry Relives Her Hippie Childhood, in Song and on Stage

by Kit Stolz February 8, 2008

Ojai’s native daughter, singer/songwriter Rain Perry, will open a ground-breaking show this weekend at Theater 150, guided and supported by her many wonderful friends, including Kim Maxwell, JB White, Deb Norton, Peter Bellwood, and Guy Webster. Her show is about growing up as a “wild child” raised by a hippie…

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Predicting Rain This Year: Acorns vs. Scientists

by Kit Stolz December 9, 2007

This week we had the first rainfall of the "water year," which was disappointingly less than promised.  The NWS had predicted as much as three inches of rain in L.A., which would mean a good deal more in the mountainous regions of Ventura County, but in fact we are still far behind what…

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Care About Our Climate? Show It Tomorrow!

by Kit Stolz November 2, 2007

From about 12:00 to 2:00 tomorrow in Ventura on 1900 Spinnaker Drive near the harbor, Bill McKibben’s national Step It Up! campaign will demonstrate in support of action to preserve the loveliness of our climate. Lois Capps has been invited, and Supervisors Steve Bennett and John Flynn are expected, as well…

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Fire Stopped in Ventura County: Not in San Diego

by Kit Stolz October 24, 2007

Good news for residents of Ventura County: although the Ranch Fire is listed as being only 10% under control, it’s not nearly the threat it was two days ago. From Inciweb:

Last night fire crews and structural protection engine crews reported
that the night operations went extremely well with no surprises. In the
early…

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West Fest a Hit for Upper Ojai School

by Kit Stolz October 16, 2007

Ojai, California is a small town, but not compared to Upper Ojai, which today has no churches, no bars, no gas stations, and but a single store, restaurant, and elementary school.
Summit, a school founded almost a hundred years ago, has almost exactly fifty students, down from well over a hundred…

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