Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
Los Angeles Times - This month, Ecuador will hold the world's first constitutional referendum in which voters will decide, among many other reforms, whether to endow nature with certain unalienable rights. Not only would the new constitution give ...

Revolution by the glass / Does a freethinking vintner make California's most interesting wine? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Abe Schoener swears this is the path to one of his favorite vineyards. We pull up in front of a modest home on a residential street outside Napa. He skirts the manicured lawn, slips along the side of the house, past the detritus of air-conditioning...