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Citizens for Real Economic Growth Host Public Workshop
Join Citizens for Real Economic Growth (CREG) for the first in their series of free public workshops.
Take a closer look at the Balloon Track....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 5:34pm PDT
Pacific Lumber Accused of Toxic Cover-Up
Pacific Lumber sued by former business and community development director....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 2:13pm PDT
Conservation of Symbiotic Bees Pollinators and Vernal Pool Goldfields
Developers attempt to build sprawl-marts on top of critical habitat for a great many endnagered species in the Sacramento Valley's vanishing vernal pools. What are some reasons for protecting the valley's vernal pool biodiversity?...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 9:22pm PDT
Major snags on Parcel A at Hunters Point and more snags all over Bayview with SFRA plans
SFRA has met it first major SNAG on Parcle A just as it will meet many major snags all over the area it plans to build the 49er City and more all over Bayview Hunters Point in areas that are very prone to liquefaction. We have over 400 toxic hot spots and SFRA does not want to address Quality of Life Issues regarding abating and mitigating. SFRA plans to cap the toxic areas and build thousands of homes on Brown Fields, Toxic Hot Spots and give a damn to the health of the constituents of those...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 5:28pm PDT
Buffalo - Update from the Field - 04/06/06
Yesterday, along Yellowstone's western boundary, eighteen buffalo
were hazed back into the Park by agents from the Department of
Livestock (DOL), National Park Service (NPS), Montana Fish, Wildlife
& Parks (FWP), and a Gallatin County sheriff. A pregnant mom and
two babies were hazed down the asphalt of highway 287....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 1:36pm PDT
Commercial Salmon Fishermen Rally At PFMC Meeting in Sacramento Today
Commercial salmon fishermen will rally in Sacramento today against Bush regime plans to outlaw salmon fishing along the California and Oregon coast. The White House plan appears to be (1) take the most vocal supporters of river restoration off the water and (2) pave the way for corporate offshore aquaculture....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 8:16am PDT
Heritage Tree Preservation Act is now making it's way through the California Legislature
SB 1799, The Heritage Tree Preservation Act is now making it's way through the California Legislature!
Please help us pass this historic legislation!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:35am PDT
Events in Bolinas thie weekend!
If you’re looking to have some fun this weekend you may want to come on out to Bolinas to the Commonweal Garden....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 3:12pm PDT
Switzerland's Energy Problems
"In the long term we face an enormous electricity gap if we do not resolve shifts in policy." The Swiss Energy Board wants to reduce the predicted energy gap primarily by improving energy efficiency....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 8:23am PDT
Environment Show on the Green Scare (audio/mpeg 10.1MB)
Karen Pickett was a guest on the KMUD Environment Show tonight talking about the
great Green Scare, the corporate driven FBI and federal grand jury crackdown on
environmental radicals, and branding them as terrorists....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 11:09pm PDT
Breakthrough Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gasses
Sacramento -- A landmark plan for reducing greenhouse gases in California beginning in five years moved forward Monday with the backing of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders. ****Will five years from now be too late?****...
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 7:56pm PDT
CELEBRATING SEVEN YEARS OF PESTICIDE POLICY REFORM
Los Angeles Unified Shares Secret of Success...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 6:54pm PDT
GE Trees Sway Under International Scrutiny
Late last night in Curitiba, Brazil, the Convention on Biological
Diversity's Eighth Conference of the Parties (COP-8) passed a formal
declaration recognizing the threats posed by genetically engineered
trees and urging countries to take a precautionary approach to the
technology....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 1:35pm PDT
Rainforest Action Network supports Chase-Manhattan , Citigroup and Bank of America
After " boycotting " these banks, RAN signs "environmental responsibility" agreements with them and thereby "certifies" them as guilt free for the consumer....
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 10:06pm PDT
Bay Air Area Quality Management defies standards and permits particulates to kill folks
The Bay Area Air Quality Management defies standards and permits particualtes to kill innocent children all over San Francisco and the Bay Area. Again and again in the year 2006 it has failed to collect empirical data to help the constituents of San Francisco. In the Southeast Sector the particulate level has reached a standard where our children are dying and others all suffer from the worst cancer and other killer diseases. BAAQMD has failed us and it is time that they are taken to be adjud...
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 4:23pm PDT
Protest the Wells Fargo Annual Shareholder’s Meeting on April 25th
WHAT: Protest the Wells Fargo Annual Shareholder’s Meeting
WHEN: Tuesday April 25th at 1:30 pm
WHERE: Stanford Court Hotel, 905 California St, San Francisco
CONTACT: Scott Parkin;email-sparkin@ran.org;phone-415-235-0596; website http://www.dirtymoney.org...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 3:19pm PST
Saturday is Fossil Fools Day!
globalexchange.org
energyaction.net
jumpstartford.com...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 12:00pm PST
Border-crossings impact fragile desert environments
While one sympathizes with the plight of undocumented workers in the U.S.A., most progressives have their heads stuck in the sand by avoiding the problem of environmental destruction in the Sonoran Desert. Millions of border crossings are taking a heavy toll. Helping undocumented workers should also include finding ways to alleviate this continuing destruction....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 10:38am PST
Jeff "Free" Luers Prison Dispatch, March 2006
Earlier this month, the Earth Liberation Front struck in Salem, Oregon. I doubt many people outside of Oregon heard about this action. However, in Oregon it was a hot news topic for days.
What kind of daring action could garner such media attention? The words "Stop building ant farms, ELF" spray-painted on a new housing development.
The first headlines were "Eco-terrorists strike again". Then the speculations came. Was this an act of hardened terrorists or was it a p...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 12:10am PST
Green Scare Indictment comes to Bay Area: Berkeley resident indicted
Another Person Indicted in "Green Scare" in Seattle
author: concerned citizen
Briana Waters, 30, is the 14th person to be charged in Oregon and Washington with conspiracy to commit a series of ecoterrorist attacks in the West in recent years.
Woman indicted in arson that destroyed UW horticulture center
The Associated Press
SEATTLE - A federal grand jury has indicted a Berkeley, Calif., woman in an arson that destroyed a horticulture center at the University of Washington f...
Posted: Thu, Mar 30, 2006 2:24pm PST