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"They [Monsanto] tried to do everything to destroy us" (audio/mpeg 42.6MB) On Monday, November 13, Percy Schmeiser, a canola farmer from Canada, spoke at the Live Oak Grange in Santa Cruz about being the victim of Monsanto harassment and lawsuits after his fields were contaminated with Monsanto’s GMO canola. If you ever doubted the dangers of Genetically Modified seeds and corporate control over our food supply, Percy’s story is sure to convince you. Audio: [46:29] mp3 at 42.6 MB...
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 1:24pm PST
Klamath Communities Rally at FERC Hearings to Demand Corporate Accountability The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is hosting a series of meetings this week to gather public comment about a draft environmental impact statement on the relicensing of Klamath River dams....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 9:12am PST
SMUD Surprises River Advocates with Mixed Message on River Restoration 
The following is my account of the bizarre behavior by the SMUD staff and board at the October 6 board meeting, followed by a letter of apology to me by Jan Schori, general manager. Since that time, SMUD
has gone back into negotiations over hydropower relicensing with the state and federal agencies and NGOs, due to months of pressure by fishing groups, environmental organizations, river rafters, recreational boaters and SMUD ratepayers. I will update you as soon as I get any official word o...
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 3:58pm PST
Klamath News: Dam Removal Would Boost Economy 
This week's Klamath River News is highlighted by a report that the Karuk Tribe filed with FERC showing how dam removal would boost the economy of Siskiyou County....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 3:08pm PST
Nov 15 - Eating Locally, Thinking Globally - Food Justice Panel at New College An evening of education and action addressing global, national and local food justice… Wednesday, November 15, 7-9pm, New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, SF - FREE....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 11:58am PST
Toxic Trucks -- Highway Smog Means Asthma For Low-Income Californians A new report reveals the high price that many Californians pay for living close to the infrastructure of the trucking industry. Viji Sundaram is health editor for New America Media....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 7:56am PST
David Suzuki at the Green Festival PBS environmental superstar, David Suzuki, explores the reasons for environmental decline and proposes workable solutions. Green Festival, November 11, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 2:18am PST
Paul Stamets and John Trudell From the GreenFestival Native American Activist/Poet/Musician, John Trudell spoke on The Power of Coherent Thinking at the GREEN FESTIVAL on November 11, 2006
Paul Stamets exclusive...psilocybian renders VX harmless....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 3:57pm PST
Berkeley Residents March Against Pacific Steel 
Berkeley residents and Bay Area enviromentalists hold a march and rally to call attention to the excessive amount of heavy metals discharged into the atmosphere by the Pacific Steel Foundry....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 12:42am PST
Percy Schmeiser and Ignacio Chapella Speaking Monday 7pm at Live Oak Grange (11/13) Percy Schmeiser and Ignacio Chapella - speaking presentation and strategic dialogue on
genetic engineering in agriculture....
Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2006 5:18pm PST
Learning from the Past: Can the Klamath be Restored? This week state, federal, tribal and local biologists, restorationists, politicians and bureaucrats, as well as agricultural and fishing interests, will gather at the Holiday Inn in Redding, California for the three-day Klamath Basin Watershed Conference. The Conference title--Sustainable Watersheds Bring Sustainable Communities--will be pursued through three themes presented on successive days: 1.) We Are One Basin, 2.) Progress in the Basin, and 3.) Moving Toward Sustainability....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 6:41am PST
Debris Shelter Campout (11/11) An invitation to one and all to come to the Debris Shelter Campout!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 10:18am PST
FSRN: Global Threats to Ocean Diversity (audio/mpeg 4.0MB) A new study by a team of marine scientists outlined in the November 3 edition of Science Magazine asserts a decline in marine biodiversity in the Earth's oceeans. Overfishing, pollution, and other environmental factors will wipe out the global seafood supply by 2048, if steep declines in marine diversity continue at current rates. But as FSRN's Vinny Lombardo reports, its not too late to change the outcome and protect ocean wildlife. TRT- 4:24
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Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2006 11:18am PST
Action Alert: Pack City Council Chambers to Support Front Yard Gardens! Your support for legislation allowing the growing of fruit and vegetable gardens in front yards is urgently needed on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 12:30 p.m at Sacramento City Hall....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 2:15pm PST
Vote today; Job Opening; Protest Saturday Vote today; Job Opening; Protest Saturday 11/11...
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 1:27pm PST
Common Vision Tour Featuring Human, Arjun, Guardians, Rocker T and Jah Warrior Shelter 
Common Vision, the good people who are planting fruit trees and teaching percussion to school children throughout the state, are partway through their recycled-veggie-oil-powered benefit tour.
Please get out and support these incredible people... and have a great time rocking to some reggae sounds....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 5:54pm PST
Act Now to Remove Klamath River Dams! The NEPA comment period for the Klamath Dams is open and comments and hearings are coming up fast. The chance for dam removal through the FERC process only happens every 50 years, and the Klamath Salmon (and thus West Coast salmon industry), and the people whom depend on them can not wait 50 more years....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 4:53pm PST
Schwarzenegger claims to be an environmentalist, but his choice of vehicles and his his endorsements out him as a hypocrite f there is a single symbol of American wastefulness, military fetishism, and willful ignorance about what it means to be heating up the planet at the end of the age of oil, it is the Hummer. And if there is one American who is most closely associated with the Hummer, it is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:41am PST
Klamath Riverkeeper Leads 35 Groups in Battle to Clean the Watershed 
The Klamath Riverkeeper organization made its debut at the recent State Water Resources Control Board meeting in Sacramento....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 10:38pm PST
California officials propose California Endangered Species Act Exemption for Klamath River California Fish & Game (CDFG) proposes giving agricultural operations in the Shasta and Scott Sub-basin of the Klamath River a virtual exemption from the California Endangered Species Act (C-ESA). The irrigators dewater the Scott and Shasta and, in drought years, Coho salmon, listed as “threatened” under the C-ESA, are among the fish killed. The proposed permit will not lead to Coho Recovery; it will allow dewatering to continue and put irrigators in charge of monitoring their own C-ESA comp...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 1:56pm PST
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