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Aggressive Sonoma Elephant Seal- Letter to the Editor
A letter to the SF Chronicle regarding a story on an aggressive elephant seal. I suggest approaching the issue from an examination of causes of the seal's behavior, as they reflect a wider overlap between animals and human activity....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 12:37am PDT
Sometimes You Win
UCSC researcher Shaye Wolf worked with organizations to force Chevron to cancel its intrusion of a fragile ecosystem by halting the building of a liquified natural gas terminal adjacent to the Coronado Islands....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 11:07pm PDT
Anti-Gold Mining Conflicts Spreading Throughout the Americas
Once isolated communities around the world are suddenly uniting and strengthening in their actions to halt transnational Big Mining projects. On May 2, community and environmental groups around the world will unite in the Global Day of Action Against Barrick Gold Corporation...
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 6:51pm PDT
Global Warming No Longer Controversial
A basic overview of the evidence and logic behind why YOU shouldn't be confused about the issue of Global Warming...
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 11:38am PDT
Current GMO News & Other Food News
Liberty, Maine Goes GMO Free, India’s Supreme Court Slammed With Largest GMO Lawsuit on Record, FDA Moves to Drop “Irradiated” Labeling Requirements, USDA Misleads Consumers With “Raw” Almond “Pasteurization...
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 11:34am PDT
Corporate America Jumps on “Green is Good” Bandwagon
When New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman authored a April 15 Sunday Times Magazine front-page story urging America to become the world’s leader in all things Green, I knew that America’s “Green Revolution” had finally arrived. Last weekend’s Earth Day celebrations confirmed this, with an unprecedented number of businesses promoting a Green ethic. Not to throw acid rain on anyone’s parade, but a stated commitment to “green” should not become the sole criteria for evaluating social justice...
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 10:40am PDT
gatherin anticivilization 2007
After the success of the last gathering in Tavertet, we are calling for a new one this year. It will take place the 8, 9, 10 and 11 of September. The place is not decided yet....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 8:29am PDT
Truely organic beer?
Organic beer may not be organic anymore, with the introduction of inorganic hops....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 12:05am PDT
The crisis of Global Warming and the uninformed attitude from Karl Rove
This is an article from yesterdays news covering Sheryl Crow and Laurie David's approach to talk to the Presidentail top adviser Karl Rove on Global Warming and his response was that he didn't want to talk about it. Sheryl said "you work for us" he replied, "i work for the American people." Then he dicided to walk away from the issue leaving these women with the thought that this is not a deserving administration....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 10:38pm PDT
Anatomy of the Great Bio-Fuels Scam
Upon my first arrival to the city of Rio de Janeiro back in June of 2002, I wanted to visit the one place every tourist wants to see: O Cristo. So on a seemingly warm and beautiful day we made our way to the top of Corcovado. There it was, the giant world famous 125-foot statue of Christ the Redeemer, overlooking much of the city and Guanabara Bay. Armed with cameras, we quickly headed to the statue’s east side vista to take personal snapshots of one of the worlds most dazzling panoramic view...
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 7:04am PDT
June 9, 2007 Day of Solidarity with Jeffrey "Free" Luers
Dear Friends,
The 7th anniversary of Jeff's imprisonment is fast arriving, and to mark this date we are encouraging everyone once again to participate in a Day of Solidarity. This year we are asking people to hold demonstrations to demand change, not just for Jeff's case but for the world. Please plan an event in your community and inform us of the details so we can help you publicize it. For information from previous years events, see http://freefreenow.org/solidarity.html
Below is an ...
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 10:31am PDT
Greenpeace launches its campaign against energy-wasting products
Greenpeace launches its campaign against energy-wasting products
Activists crush thousands of light bulbs at Brandenburg Gate...
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 10:25pm PDT
Eco-Orwell: How Green is Tom Friedman?
Not long ago, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was America's top op ed cheerleader for George W. Bush's attack on Iraq, portraying it as a "war for democracy."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 6:47am PDT
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update 04/19/07
Last week DOL bullies hazed approximately 400 wild buffalo off of National Forest land, despite a November 2006 agreement signed by all five Interagency Bison Management Plan agency heads, which was supposed to allow for "greater tolerance" of wild bison on public lands through May 15....
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 10:07pm PDT
Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future
The first of many international walkers have arrived in England to begin an 86 day Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future from Dublin to London starting on the 12th of May 2007....
Posted: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 1:42am PDT
Step It Up: Thousands Gather this Weekend for Largest Ever-Rally Against Global Warming
The group Step it Up is spearheading the National Day of Climate of Action on Saturday. Tens of thousands of Americans are gathering across the country in the largest-ever demonstration against global warming. Over thirteen hundred rallies, demonstrations and actions are being held in all fifty states to call on Congress to cut carbon emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050. We speak with Step it Up organizer Bill McKibben....
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:50am PDT
Who Killed the Electric Car? New Documentary Looks at the Mysterious Disappearance of the EV-1
General Motors has been at the center of one of the nation's largest controversies over clean emissions-cars. In 1996 the company introduced the EV-1 electric car in California and Arizona. Hundreds of the electric cars were soon on the road. Then they all disappeared. The mystery behind their disappearance is the subject of the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” We’re joined by the film’s director Chris Paine, and Chelsea Sexton, a former GM employee who worked on the EV-1 electric c...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:48am PDT
Climate Change and Affordable Housing: Time to Make a Strong Connection
There’s no question the issue of climate change has reached a tipping point in America. Once relegated to technical journals and PBS documentaries, the national news media now splashes climate change issues across front pages and news broadcasts daily. States and cities throughout the country have begun their own initiatives to combat the problem, and the new Democratic-controlled House and Senate look poised to push the dialogue even further. One strategy in particular - increasing density i...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:13am PDT
Bush salmon plan for Columbia dams rejected
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A federal appeals court Monday strongly rejected the Bush administration's 2004 plan for making Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams safe for salmon, saying it used "sleight of hand" and violated the Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 7:38am PDT
Climate change report outlines dire impact of global warming
On April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group II Summary for Policy Makers from its report on “Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.”...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:28pm PDT