In March 1985, at a meeting of the Santa Cruz Visitors and Convention Bureau, bureau members discussed putting up a billboard promoting tourism in Santa Cruz. They turned down the idea because they were concerned that TIA would alter it. They even speculated as to what the alteration would say.
Reported by a TIA sympathizer who was at the meeting.
“Fifteen years in the making, Stayton's
book delivers an excellent primer on how to shift from fossil fuel to solar
power. It will do for the energy chain what The Omnivore's Dilemma did for the
food chain and much more. Stayton's book is a forty-five–year blueprint for
total solar dependence. This physicist and teacher begins at the dawn of man and
rolls smoothly through the history of how we became energy-consuming animals and
adapted well to each energy shift, from fire to water, coal, steam, and oil.
Eloquently, Stayton persuades that our current swing from fossil fuel to solar
power can also remain gradual and non-traumatic.”
— US Review of Books
