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textCitizens for Real Economic Growth Host Public Workshop by CREG (repost)
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
textPacific Lumber Accused of Toxic Cover-Up by JT Gray
Pacific Lumber sued by former business and community development director....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 2:13pm PDT
textConservation of Symbiotic Bees Pollinators and Vernal Pool Goldfields by fairy shrimp
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
textMajor snags on Parcel A at Hunters Point and more snags all over Bayview with SFRA plans by Francisco Da Costa
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
imageBuffalo - Update from the Field - 04/06/06
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by BFC repost
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
textCommercial Salmon Fishermen Rally At PFMC Meeting in Sacramento Today by Dan Bacher
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
imageHeritage Tree Preservation Act is now making it's way through the California Legislature
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by Campaign for Old Growth
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
textEvents in Bolinas thie weekend! by PLS via list
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
textSwitzerland's Energy Problems by swiss info
"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
audioEnvironment Show on the Green Scare (audio/mpeg 10.1MB) by KMUD repost
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
textBreakthrough Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gasses by Tom Chorneau, Chronicle (repost)
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
textCELEBRATING SEVEN YEARS OF PESTICIDE POLICY REFORM by Robina Suwol
Los Angeles Unified Shares Secret of Success...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 6:54pm PDT
textGE Trees Sway Under International Scrutiny by GJEP repost
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
textRainforest Action Network supports Chase-Manhattan , Citigroup and Bank of America by pissed
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
textBay Air Area Quality Management defies standards and permits particulates to kill folks by Francisco Da Costa
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
textProtest the Wells Fargo Annual Shareholder’s Meeting on April 25th by RAN
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
textSaturday is Fossil Fools Day! by globalexchange.org
globalexchange.org energyaction.net jumpstartford.com...
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 12:00pm PST
textBorder-crossings impact fragile desert environments by Burro
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
textJeff "Free" Luers Prison Dispatch, March 2006 by Jeffrey "Free" Luers
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
textGreen Scare Indictment comes to Bay Area: Berkeley resident indicted by carefully reading medic
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
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