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East Palo Alto has long been a dumping ground for high-tech's toxic by-products. The Raging Grannies, inspired by the high energy and spirit of youth activists in YUCA (Youth United for Community Action), added their voices to a rally in San Francisco at OSHA regional headquarters to convince OSHA to stop the environmental racism. Chanting "Justice for Froilan", demonstrators called for stiffer penalties for safety infractions at Romic Technologies. A big polluter, Romic also showed gros...

Climate Change is here to stay in San Francisco. It was very interesting how not one Environmentalist in the pure sense of the world was permitted to address Climate Change in San Francisco held recently in San Francisco. Those in the know understand micro-climates . San Francisco can ill afford drastic Climate Change but we are headed in that direction anyway - because of our own making and pollutants that we release....

Marion Fulk, a highly respected Manhattan Project and Livermore atomic scientist, says that depleted uranium "is perfect for killing lots of people." That, in fact, along with contamination of the land, is the purpose of the devices being tested....

Want to think globally and act locally? Plant trees to help save the planet! The Humboldt ‘07 10,000 Trees Campaign’s vision is to address the critical need for a restored, re-balanced, healthy and thriving natural environment by creating partnerships towards the planting goal of 10,000 trees for 2007 & to collaborate permanent partnerships for Humboldt County tree planting in the following years to combat global warming and offset carbon emissions. Thus far, for the 2007 year, over 170 mi...

It is time that all San Franciscans and others understand the role of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB)linked to the Hunters Point Shipyard. The RAB did not agree to the transfer of Parcel A but the City and County of San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom, and the Citizens Advisory Committee all appointed by the Mayor went forward with Parcel A....

Managing Scopac properties based on community forestry standards offers significant benefits in both economic and ecological terms: * Increased late seral stage stand conditions from 12% to 54% of the overall acreage in the first 30 years, 100% in 60 years. * $3 billion in long-term debt-free income over the second 30 years – double the long-term income and local economic impact of the Traditional Timber Management Model in the same period. * Steady increases in forest invent...

San Jose, CA - Pit River Indian Tribe members and Indigenous and environmental justice supporters delivered an eviction notice to Calpine Corporation in downtown San Jose on Monday, January 29, 2007 demanding they drop their decades-long attempt to build polluting power plants in the Medicine Lake Highlands near Mount Shasta. Tribal members and supporters vowed to nonviolently defend Medicine Lake from any attempts to build power plants at this area that is profoundly sacred to area Native p...

In reaction to PG&E's massive greenwashing campaign, a group of protesters crashed the PG&E press conference at the LGBT center, where they were unveiling their newly installed solar panels. The protesters wanted to make it clear that installing solar panels on one building did not make this billion dollar corporation 'green'. PG&E owns less than 1% solar energy facilities and 2% wind. It has also lobbied against incentives for individuals to install solar panels in the recent past. Go to let...

Today was the first public action of a guerrilla collective dedicated to exposing PG&E’s massive and misleading PR campaign wallpapering our city for the last few months....

The recent cold snap in the Central Valley has cut deep into the profits of citrus growers. But many small-time farmers in the Hmong community are hurt even more with their entire harvest wiped out....