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8/25 Friday SF Critical Mass Katrina Anniversary:Critical Mass Against Climate Action
Critical Mass begins gathering at 5:30ish at Justin Herman Plaza; Ride leaves at 6pm....
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 12:31am PDT
Latest Environmental Impact Report On Gallinas Creek
The City of San Rafael has issued an EIR Scope for the ill-conceived
soccer complex plan for this sensitive wildlife area....
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 10:19pm PDT
Bear Creek Logging Plan Threatens Water Quality, Marbled Murrelets
An update on Pacific Lumber's "Pitchfork" logging plan and the situation in Bear Creek....
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 5:14pm PDT
PacifiCorp Ratepayers Strongly Support Klamath Dam Removal
PacifiCorp ratepayers favor removing the Klamath River dams by a two to one margin....
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 9:45am PDT
Urge Gov. Schwarzenegger to Sign Hemp Bill
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is
now the only person standing between farmers and
their future hemp crops!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 3:08pm PDT
Water Playshop - Connect to Your Urban Watershed
SOMA Creativity Center
81 Langton Street, Suite 13
San Francisco, CA 94103
(near folsom/7th across from Brainwash cafe)...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 26, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 11:48pm PDT
Nestle corporation's after McCloud's aquifer agua
Water bottling giant Nestle corporation is pressuring McCloud residents to read two thick volumes of EIR before public comment period ends. Risks to aquifer and ecosystem following massive water withdrawal by Nestle are long term, more time needed to review EIR.....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 3:36pm PDT
KATRINA COMMEMORATION EVENTS, UPCOMING!
> GREAT FLOOD COMMEMORATION EVENTS: ONE YEAR LATER
> Take time to honor and remember our dead. Fight for the right to
> return for all those still displaced. Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of New
> Orleans....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 3:03pm PDT
Klamath Dams Stand Trial In Sacramento This Week
The Tribes, federal and state agencies, conservationists, and fishermen have joined forces to defend a fish re-introduction plan for Klamath River salmon and steelhead in a Sacramento courtroom this week....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 11:31am PDT
North Coast Earth First!
No compromise in defense of mother earth!
Any time man chooses himself over nature, man loses....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 1:02am PDT
8/19 on: Ride/Walk to Central Cinema for "An Inconvenient Truth," get Free Popcorn Refill
If you ride your bike or walk to see "An Inconvenient Truth" at the Central
Cinema in Alameda, you can get a free popcorn refill....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 11:57pm PDT
10/6: First Annual Berkeley Sustainability Summit
> The Ecology Center will be hosting this event on Friday, October 6,
> from 9:00 to 3:00....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 11:46pm PDT
9/9 cycles of change - the land and its peoples class begins
The class is offered through Merritt College's Landscape Horticulture Department,
beginning on Saturday,
September 9. It will consist of nine Saturday field trips, each lasting from 10-4. It is
not necessary to attend all the trips in order to take the class. If you choose to take
the class for a grade, there will be a project at the end....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 11:42pm PDT
Two Bay Area Activists Re-subpoenaed to Federal Grand Jury
hm, i don't see any details about when the re-subpoena occurred...
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 11:18pm PDT
Lockheed Martin in Bonny Doon Says No to Water Testing
Lockheed Martin has declined a request by CCALM (Community Concerned About Lockheed Martin) to drill test wells to monitor ground water quality at their Bonny Doon facility at the end of Empire Grade. Lockheed continues to assert that there is nothing for local residents to worry about, although they have no records of disposal practices at the facility prior to 1984, leaving 26 years of missing information on waste disposal operations in effect before regulated mandatory environmental accoun...
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 9:30pm PDT
"Windmill" Oldgrowth Forest Logging PLan Approved
Sierra Pacific Industries Windmill logging plan was approved yesterday. Logging could begin any time. The plan includes clearcutting Old Growth Douglas Fir near the coast, several miles north of Petrolia....
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 8:22pm PDT
No Backroom Deal on LNG!
California is currently considering proposals to build coastal terminals to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) – an explosive fossil fuel – for the first time. LNG imports would handcuff our state to a new source of foreign fossil fuel at a time when we should be investing in a clean energy future....
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 4:05pm PDT
Stop Global Warming Now!
The California legislature has until the end of this legislative session on August 31 to pass an historic new bill to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. This critical bill, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), will then need to be signed by Governor Schwarzenegger to become law....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 5:20pm PDT
Toxic Algae Threaten Human Health in PacifiCorp's Klamath Reservoirs
Besides killing fish, the Klamath River dams threaten human health by creating ideal growth conditions for toxic blue-green algae....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 4:31pm PDT
Today is the Day! Take action to stop preemption in California
Write your state Senate and House Assembly members.
Call your State Senator and Assembly member and ask them to oppose SB 1056....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 11:49am PDT