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Bechtel Moves Main Division out of SF Bechtel is moving its most prominent division out of San Francisco to Maryland to be near its main customer - the U.S. Government.
ORGANIZE A FEB. 24 PROTEST AT THE LOCAL OFFICE OF HALLIBURTON, BECHTEL, OR ANOTHER WAR PROFITEERING COMPANY...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 7:01pm PST
Anti-Immigrant Coup at Sierra Club? The most powerful and venerable environmental organisation in the United States is facing what is being described as its greatest crisis in its 112-year history. There are claims that anti-immigration groups are planning to take over the Sierra Club, in a battle that has reopened the debate on the priorities for environmentalists worldwide....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 9:27am PST
Warning: This diet is not for everyone Finding a quarter-billion acres for adequate feed grain harvests would mean at least a 7 percent increase in cropland worldwide at a time when farmers are already using most of the better land. Much of the newly plowed acreage would likely be marginal, subject to greater erosion and requiring extra generous applications of fertilizer and pesticides....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 9:22am PST
Citigroup Agrees To RAN Demands The world's largest bank sets a new environmental standard on Wall Street. Rainforest Action Network names next targets "The Liquidators"....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 2:34pm PST
1/24 Symposium: Water Scarcity at Home and Abroad A panel of activists will discuss the impact of
water scarcity around the globe, here in California, and an on women; and will address solutions....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 10:33pm PST
Jackson State Forest Needs Help! California state law now says that Jackson State Forest shall be logged for maximum timber production! This must be changed if our public forest is to be saved for our children!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 7:17pm PST
Calpine meeting 2nite in Eureka City Hall in Eureka 2nite 7 pm will give people a chance to express their views on Calpine corporation bringing compressed natural gas (CNG) to Humboldt Bay. After the dredging of the bay 4 the tankers, we will deal with the risk of explosive CNG in a seiamically active area....
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 9:09am PST
Seattle: FBI arrests Animal-rights activist An agent with the FBI's domestic terrorism squad arrested an animal rights activist yesterday for allegedly lying to a Seattle federal grand jury investigating an arson attack on an Olympia forest-product company....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 11:20am PST
Houston activist visits MAXXAM land in Humboldt I am currently in the California Redwoods of Humboldt County, on the Pacific Coast (home to MAXXAM subsidiary, Pacific Lumber).The following entries come directly from my daily journal....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 2:47pm PST
Tell the PUC to support renewable energy! There will be a Public Utilities Commission meeting on January 22nd. Please attend and tell them comission to suppport renewable energy....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 10:05am PST
Environmental Links Please post links, as comments, that you would like to see on this page....
Posted: Mon, Jan 12, 2004 5:22pm PST
Forest Defense Links This page is under construction. Feel free to post links you would like to see on this page. (also if you have any suggestions about how the links are arranged please post those suggestions too)...
Posted: Mon, Jan 12, 2004 5:07pm PST
Logging basics, or the a-z of shit This cheery pick me up is from the new issue of Vice magazine. It is really funny, so stick with it and learn something about your body. It is better than shit talking......
Posted: Sun, Jan 11, 2004 12:55pm PST
San Fran Activists Launch Ford Campaign in LA Global Exchange and Rainforest Action Network scale downtown LA skyscraper and release giant banner to protest US oil addition...
Posted: Sun, Jan 11, 2004 11:33am PST
"We have lost 30 years": Dennis Meadows "We must develop a new concept of economics, one in which people are less interested in accumulating material things. Only then can sustainable growth be achieved..If we had begun in the seventies to develop alternatives to material growth, we could look to the future more calmly.."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 9, 2004 3:27pm PST
Berkeley Denies Tenure to Ecologist Who Criticized University's Ties to the Biotechnology Berkeley Denies Tenure to Ecologist Who Criticized
University's Ties to the Biotechnology Industry
By SHARON WALSH...
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 10:37pm PST
EPA Refuses to Protect Food Supply from Sewage Sludge On New Year's Eve, December 31, 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency denied a petition requesting that the agency ban the land application of sludge. On the same day, the agency published its review of regulations governing the use and disposal of sewage sludge......
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 9:55am PST
1/31-2/1 California Biodiesel Consumers' Conference Towards sustainable biodiesel for passenger car and small
business B100 consumers in California...
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 8:33am PST
U.S. to Destroy 450 Calves in Mad Cow Probe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The month-old offspring of a Washington state dairy cow infected with mad cow disease will be destroyed along with about 450 other calves as a safety precaution, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Jan 5, 2004 1:33pm PST
Hospitals Spray Dangerous Pesticides A survey of top U.S. hospitals finds many of these institutions regularly using toxic pesticides, despite the fact that a large number of their patients may be especially vulnerable to the toxic effects....
Posted: Fri, Jan 2, 2004 8:18pm PST
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