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Bureau of Reclamation Limits Access to Winnemem Wintu Ceremonial Site (Revised Release) Here's a corrected media advisory. (The other release had the wrong dates listed at the top of the release).
The Coming of Age (Balas Chonas Winyupnus) Ceremony, set from July 8 through 11, 2006 on the McCloud River at Lake Shasta, will highlight the failure of the Bureau of Reclamation to protect the religious freedoms of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 2:58pm PDT
May Critical Mass in Santa Cruz and a Look Back 
The Santa Cruz Critical Mass Bike Ride on May 26th included riding on West Cliff, through the Beach Flats and past the guarded Boardwalk....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 12:36am PDT
SB1056 Update: GE Crops and Seeds On June 28th, 2006 the Assembly Agriculture voted unanimously in favor of SB1056, a bill that takes away local government authority over seeds. If this bill passes into law, it will override future restrictions on genetically engineered crops and seeds, as well as all other local regulation of seeds....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 4:23pm PDT
Sherwin-Williams: Covering Our Communities with Toxics 
Sherwin-Williams was given the 2006 “Bad Neighbor of the Year” award by ACORN because of the companies on-going assaults against the health of our communities....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 6:10pm PDT
Arana Gulch to be Paved? 
The serene isolation and beauty of Arana Gulch is threatened by two miles of Eight foot wide paved trails and a suspension bridge over hagemann gulch....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 6:03pm PDT
Bureau of Reclamation Limits Access to Winnemem Wintu Ceremonial Site The Coming of Age (Balas Chonas Winyupnu) Ceremony on the McCloud River at Lake Shasta will highlight the failure of the Bureau of Reclamation to protect the religious freedoms of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 1:52pm PDT
Organic Sacramento Action Alert: Oppose the "Monsanto Law," SB1056 Please show up at the hearing for SB 1056 tomorrow in Sacramento. If you can't,
please email a letter to your Legislator opposing this anti-democratic legislation
that makes it illegal for citizens to pass voter initiatives to protect themselves
from Genetically Engineered crops in their local cities or counties....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 2:01pm PDT
Billionaire Buffet Gives to Charity while His Dams Kill Salmon While Billionaire Warren Buffet says he intends to work with the Gates Foundation to donate billions of dollars to charity, one of his subsidiaries owns dams on the Klamath River that are killing salmon....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 3:40pm PDT
Toxic soil dumped by Carroll Street in the Bayview Hunters Point This is not the first time we have to report to the SF Health Department and the Department of Toxics and Substances Control (DTSC) that some one is dumping toxic soil on land in the Bayview Hunters Point. On Carroll Street there is this parking lot used as a over flow when the parking lots linked to Candlestick are full. Innocent folks park and near by is the worse type of toxic soil and no one informs them of this hazardous material....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 1:33pm PDT
Water Quality Agency Says No To "Second Serving" of Old Growth Logging in Elk River 
Due to concerns that this Old Growth Redwood logging plan will harm Elk River, the Water Quality Agency is objecting to it....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 10:20am PDT
Bike lanes on Illinois Street in an Industrial Area Mayor Gavin Newsom and Sophie Maxwell have no consensus from the public at large to decide what is best for folks that live and work on Illinois Street. Sophie Maxwell will go with the flow because she is not educated on issues. The Board of Supervisors may think they voted right but as any sensible person knows the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) or Study on any important project is a must. While bike lanes may benefit some in other areas - it adversely impacts those in a industrial area. ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 7:54am PDT
Water Board Extends Ag Waivers For Five Years Every reporter that went to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board seemed to have a different idea of what actually happened. Here's my take on the meeting - the board approved the agricultural waivers, although it included a bit more accountability in the waiver process. However, the Delta food chain is in crisis, farmworkers living in areas with contaminated water are getting sick and dying of cancer, the Central Valley rivers are less healthy than they were three years ago...
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 12:53pm PDT
San Rafael Demands Full EIR on Soccer Site Today The City requested a full environmental impact report on the proposed Shekou soccer complex in San Rafael near endangered species habitat....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 7:06pm PDT
Salmon River Timber Sale Loses in 9th Circuit Court: Time to Gear Up! 
June 23, 2006: The Knob Timber Sale lost on all counts in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Knob is one of three old growth timber sales (along with the already cut Glassups sale and currently in court Meteor sale) making up a “mega-sale” on the wild and scenic Salmon River of Siskiyou County, CA. After years in court, the Knob sale will soon be auctioned and slated for cut there after. Some of the last intact oldgrowth forest in the United States can be found in these public-land timber sale...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 5:36pm PDT
Richmond: Building Healthy Communities Through Food: A Community Workshop EcoVillage Farm Learning Center
21 Laurel Lane, Richmond, CA 94803.
For directions: http://www.ecovillagefarm.org/directions.htm...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 9:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 4:18pm PDT
GOOD ENERGY IN STINSON BEACH The Stinson Beach Solar Committee (SBSC) has a vision...to create a sustainable, energy-independent community, to educate the community regarding that process and to incorporate the use of solar power whenever and wherever it is possible. Toward those intentions members of the SBSC have met and discussed - and are currently researching - the concept of becoming energy-independent!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 2:00pm PDT
We move sun on SunMt — cooling Big Mama 
We move sun on SunMt — cooling Big Mama. 3 minute video...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 9:16am PDT
Richmond: Sources of Pollution & Chemical Exposure: Env Justice St. Mark's Church - Gymnasium
159 Harbour Way, Richmond 94801...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 1:23pm PDT
Spare the air means free public transportation Today All day today, Thursday, between 4am + 12 Midnight BART and all the public transportation porviders in the Bay Area are allowing their riders to ride for Free....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 12:09am PDT
Stop Industrial Agriculture from Poisoning our Water! Attend Water Board hearing 6/22 Come to the Water Board hearing this Thursday in Rancho Cordova (near Sacramento) and tell them not to exempt agriculture from pollution control requirements for another five years!
When: Thursday, June 22 at 9:00 am
Where: Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
11020 Sun Center Drive #200
Rancho Cordova, California 95670...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 6:23pm PDT
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