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No Happy New Year for Freshwater, Elk Watersheds A critical year for Freshwater, Elk watersheds...
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 10:18pm PST
A Letter from Julia Butterfly Hill to U.C. President Designate Robert Dynes I am concerned that a majority of the sources of our drinking water are polluted and that now, in many cases, even our very air is toxic to our health. I am concerned about the millions of children who go to bed hungry, and the statistical fact that it is more likely for a child of color to end up in prison than to get into college. And I am concerned that the United States is leading the world in manufacturing, stockpiling, and "disposing of" weapons of mass destruction....
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 12:46am PST
Logging and Landslides Maxxam's clearcuts are creating conditions that are ripe for disaster....
Posted: Mon, Dec 29, 2003 11:14pm PST
AUDIO- SACRED Sings Eco-carols at MAXXAM- listen! MAXXAM spokesperson Josh Riess introduces the SACRED Eco-carolers......
Posted: Fri, Dec 26, 2003 5:43pm PST
'Mad cow' prions may permanently contaminate processing plants. A modest proposal All surfaces which have been in contact with BSE contaminated animal flesh must be regarded as potential permanent reservoirs of infectious prions. This fact suggests sequestration of such surfaces may be required to protect public health. This article consists of a proposal for the creation of a national repository for the permanent storage of slaughterhouses, meatpacking plants, and other food processing facilities which have been (or may contain equipment) contmainated by BSE prions. Sugge...
Posted: Fri, Dec 26, 2003 4:46pm PST
Lets stop Environmental Injustice/Racism in Hunters Point After the past eight years Environmental Justice/racism has gotten worst, the independent reports show that things have in fact not improved for the residents and the community of Hunters Point....
Posted: Fri, Dec 26, 2003 1:23pm PST
sing an (anti-) MAXXAM song this season Sing songs for the forest- lyrics included...
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 7:23am PST
Countries Start To Ban US Beef Due To Mad Cow Disease: Aren't You Glad You Don't Eat Meat? A growing number of countries are banning imports of American beef after the US announced its first suspected case of "mad cow" disease....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 9:24am PST
US confirms first mad cow case WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- The first US case of mad cow disease is suspected in a single cow in Washington state, US Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Tuesday, according to a CNNreport....
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2003 4:59pm PST
Martinez Refinery May Have Contaminated Local Ponds "The US Environmental Protection Agency is calling on the Tesoro refinery in Martinez refinery to study contamination in two ponds."...
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2003 1:15pm PST
San Francisco Bicycling 2004 Calendar End oil, promote energy conservation and infrastructure for youth and stay lean, stylin' and happy....
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2003 9:32am PST
Return to the Human Standard: Leopold Kohr "The philosopher Leopold Kohr was an early environment pioneer. Against megalomania and for reform of the modern age, he urged a return to the human standard.. A single cause stands behind all the forms of social misery: somethng has become too great.."...
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2003 5:43am PST
America's Food Crisis Rarely will you come across fresh fruits and vegetables, or fresh meat or milk products for sale in the poorer neighborhoods of America's cities. The right to quality food and low prices is a privilege reserved exclusively for the well-off....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:55pm PST
AMERICAN INDIAN GRAVE DESECRATION IN YOSEMITE VALLEY The National Park Service in Yosemite Valley has initiated the first in many huge development projects in Yosemite Valley. The "Yosemite Valley Plan" supported by "The Yosemite Fund" of the Bay area, as well as huge corporations noted for environmental violations such as Chevron Texaco are funding one of the most detrimental plans to environment as well as American Indian history.
Many areas of the park under construction now are unearthing human remains identified as Anc...
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 6:46pm PST
Biodiversity trapped in cage by reductionist science Corporate industry benefits from reductionist science when attempting to measure biodiversity. Nature does not live in a box and cannot be separated into internal and external components. When a monkey is removed from a rainforest the lack of native plant air alter the biochemistry of the primate, resulting in her slowly dying inside when s/he cannot escape the four walls that deprive her of freedom. The same pharmaceutical industry that benefits from testing chemicals on animals also tests c...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 5:29pm PST
Chemical industry group spying on activists CHEMICAL INDUSTRY’S SECRET PLAN TO ATTACK CALIFORNIA’S ANTI-TOXIC MOVEMENT
Memo Calls for Phony Front Groups, Spying on Activists
as revealed by the Environmental Working Group...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 2:30am PST
Huntingdon Life Sciences and petrochemical carcinogens Huntingdon Life Sciences and pharmaceutical corporations benefit from invasive non-consentual testing of animal and human prisoners. The causes of many cancers they attempt to "cure" are often caused by petrochemical toxins manufactured in the production of pharmaceutical products.....
Posted: Tue, Dec 16, 2003 3:13pm PST
Calpine scam targets Medicine Lake and Humboldt Bay Calpines disrespect towards Medicine Lake and the Pit River, Shasta and Wintu tribes would be mirrored in Humboldt Bay as their reinvested petroleum fortune sponsers so-called "green-energy". Petroleum corporations like British Petroleum are transfering finances into Bolivian natural gas extraction in the form of Pacific Natural Gas consortium. Same lies, different names....
Posted: Mon, Dec 15, 2003 9:06pm PST
Nature as Healer and Teacher Nature is a healer and teacher, a wounded healer and scorned teacher, a majestic fountain of awe, wonder and inspiration.. Nature, the foundation of economics, cries in pain because she is reduced to a free good, external or sink.....
Posted: Sun, Dec 14, 2003 9:43am PST
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