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March 2nd Albany Waterfront Committee Meeting Owls & the 'Mall' on the agenda. On March 2, 2006, the Albany Waterfront Committee will review draft
plans for a proposed burrowing owl habitat to be located at the Albany
Plateau....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 5:33pm PST
Wells Fargo:Lootin' & Pollutin' since 1852-Stop Wells Fargo's investments in Dirty Money!! Howdy pardner, there 's a new campaign in town and it's aim is Stop Wells Fargo's investments in Dirty Money!!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 3:55pm PST
Nearly 2,000 feared dead as huge mudslide hits Philippine village An entire village in the Philippines was engulfed by a massive mudslide when the side of a mountain suddenly gave way last Friday. After three days of rescue efforts, most of the nearly 2,000 inhabitants of Guinsaugon in the province of Southern Leyte are still missing, feared dead....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:18pm PST
A Response to the “Green Scare” We must have a movement response to the government-incited "Green Scare." Our response to Operation Back-fire, and the demonizing of environmental and animal defense, must be with our love for, music inspired by, and stories about the natural places and critters we love. I propose organizing a nation-wide tour would be like an old-fashioned radio show, and feature an evening of stories, music, photographs, and poems that define and celebrate the environmental and animal-rights movem...
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 5:01pm PST
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency gets ready to develop Bayview Hunters Point San Francisco Redevelopment Agency - Marcia Rosen, Jesse Blout, Michael Cohen, Nicole Franklin, Willie B. Kennedy and many other mostly Black sellouts are getting ready to take over large tracts of Bayview Hunters Point, the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, and areas in the Visitation Valley. This is a repeat only worse of what happen in the Western Addition....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 12:45pm PST
MUNI Metro East Facility by Pier 80 and next to 3 toxic Combustion Turbines Mayor Gavin Newsom has given his blessings to build a very large facility byt Pier 80 - MUNI Metroeast Facility. This facility will be built next to 3 Combustion Turbines very toxic that will kill the workers and other constituents who work and live near by. Millions of other that will travel on Illinois Street the new highway that will connect to the new Illinois Street Bridge. How can we call ourselves a Green City when we continue to build facilities that pollute? Are we really a Green Cit...
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:03am PST
Climate Change: On The Edge A satellite study of the Greenland ice cap shows that it is melting far faster than scientists had feared - twice as much ice is going into the sea as it was five years ago. The implications for rising sea levels - and climate change - could be dramatic....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 10:18am PST
Global Warming Threatens California’s Major Ethnic Populations SAN FRANCISCO -- Barbara Lott-Holland’s most fervent wish is that her 11 grandchildren thrive in a habitable world. She sees a clean environment as a basic human right, one that has not been guaranteed for her and others in her Crenshaw neighborhood in Los Angeles....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 9:23am PST
1,800 Feared Dead After Philippine Landslide TACLOBAN, Philippines, February18 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Hopes faded on Saturday, February18 , for some1 , 800people in a central Philippines village engulfed by a torrent of mud and rock when a rain-soaked mountain collapsed on homes and a crowded school....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 9:20am PST
ALERT! Tell the EPA not to register new cancer-causing pesticide! Methyl iodide is a chemical that the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) is now evaluating for registration as a replacement for
methyl bromide, a fumigant that is being phased out because it causes
ozone depletion in the atmosphere....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 10:23pm PST
The People defeat Bechtel! And other Water Currents... Our mission is to challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 10:20pm PST
EARTH MATTERS radio - Biodiesel boom creates killing fields for endangered Orangutans (audio/mpeg 8.7MB) EARTH MATTERS radio - environmental news for KPFA's investigative news show, "Flashpoints." An interview with Michelle Desilets of the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation UK. Orangutans are being brutally attacked, beaten, macheted, and burned to death due to loss of their native habitat to rainforest logging. Once displaced they stray onto massive industrial Palm Oil plantations in Indonesian Borneo. A vast amount of this palm oil is headed for for the Biofuel markets of the USA a...
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 5:18pm PST
EARTH MATTERS radio - Republicans at the Trough - Pombo, Hurwitz and Abramoff (audio/mpeg 16.1MB) "EARTH MATTERS" - Environmental news for KPFA's investigative news show, "Flashpoints." Interview with "Truthout" journalist Kelpie Wilson and local organizer and director of the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Karen Pickett. They discuss the connections between fat-cat republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Rep. Dick Pombo (R - Tracey, CA), Tom Delay and Maxxam CEO Charles Hurwitz, chief butcher of California's ancient redwood trees. mp3 audio, 17:35
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Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 4:59pm PST
URGENT- ACT NOW 4 BIG MOUNTAIN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ. TARGETED NAVAJO FAMILIES SAY THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION!
Something critical is about to happen concerning the traditional communities on Big Mountain & surrounding areas. Please take a moment to read and fax this letter today. It will automatically be sent to the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs, Senate & Congress. Link supplied below....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 2:19pm PST
EARTH MATTERS Radio - Interview with Mike Mease from the Buffalo Field Campaign (audio/mpeg 11.0MB) "Earth Matters" is an environmental news segment on KPFA radio's investigative news program, "Flashpoints." The Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field, everyday, to stop the slaughter and harassment of Yellowstone's wild buffalo. This year more than 900 bison have been killed. BFC founder Mike Mease is interviewed. mp3 audio, 12:03 mins.
music clip: "Cows With Guns" by Dana Lyons
www.cowswithguns.com...
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 2:17pm PST
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 02/01/06 By the time the Stephens Creek capture facility, located one mile inside Yellowstone National Park, is empty nearly 1,000 sacred buffalo will be dead. We all bear a share of responsibility for this because our federal tax dollars are footing the bill....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 10:21pm PST
URGENT! TAKE ACTION FOR BIG MOUNTAIN TODAY STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ. TARGETED NAVAJO
COMMUNITIES SAY THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 10:21pm PST
Global warming '30 times quicker than it used to be' Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a previous episode of global warming....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:44pm PST
Dead swans litter German island as bird flu spreads The German Baltic island of Ruegen is littered with the corpses of at least 100 swans just 24 hours after the authorities discovered three dead birds with H5N1 virus on its shores....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:43pm PST
Islais Creek Bridge by Marin Street will being the worst pollution and death. The Islais Creek Bridge now being built by San Francisco Port Authority will contribute to pollution and death. Millions of vehicles will spew dangerous particulates that will adversely impact the Bayview area. The Bay is already polluted and with this new bridge more pollution will adversely impact the Bay. Mayor Gavin Newsom knows about this polluting bridge but will do nothing about it. The Bridge is being built over a Force Main and no one is speaking up. The Bridge design is poor and is ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 3:54pm PST
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