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textWalden: Earth Day 2008 Project by Erin Elliott
"Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau" is an educational performance play about the final two days Henry David Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. On EARTH DAY 2007 over 4,000 colleges, schools, home schools and community theaters in nine nations performed the play in celebration of Thoreau, his writings about nature, and our earth. Help us spread the word for an even bigger success in 2008!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 12:21pm PDT
calendarStrawberry Rec. Dist. Board of Director's Meet by
end of event a guess The meeting will be held in the upstairs loft at the center, 118 E. Strawberry Drive....
Event Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 11:54am PDT
calendarPublic hearing on aerial BIOCHEMICAL pesticide spraying by chemtrails911
Simpkins Family Swim Center, 979 17th Ave., Live Oak...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 10:48am PDT
textArctic Ice Shrinking AND Thinning - Reports by Don Beck
A research team from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado at Boulder published their report of the annual 'Arctic Ice Minimum' last week which tells the extent of the summer melting. It broke the previous record set in '05, but it did so by a huge margin. The area that melted this year is 26% more than the '05 record....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 10:47am PDT
textVery Interesting Timeline by Don Beck
Mid 80's - Some scientists warn about CO2 and global warming but they are largely dismissed by other scientists and the public. 1993 - Two separate ice cores drilled into the Greenland Ice Sheet to depths of two miles both confirmed earlier evidence of many 'abrupt climate changes' that have occurred in as little as a decade rather than the thousand year transition that was previously believed....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 10:39am PDT
imageFederal Court Hearing Today in Fresno About Central Valley Salmon Runs at Risk
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by Dan Bacher
Judge Oliver Wanger will be holding a hearing in Fresno today to review the merits of a case filed by a coalition of commercial and recreational fishing groups, conservation organizations and the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. The coalition filed suit in federal court in 2005 challenging a long-term plan to strip away habitat protections from five imperiled species of salmon and steelhead to allow for increases in water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the largest and most signific...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 9:55am PDT
calendarSustainable Seafood{Fairfax}health of the oceans[The safest fish to eat] by Pam Hartwell-Herrero
141 Bolinas Road...
Event Date: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 7:46am PDT
textTHE FUTURE OF FOOD | Free Screening & Discussion (10/5) by Marie Morohoshi
The Center for Urban Peace presents THE FUTURE OF FOOD, an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade -- followed by a Q & A discussion facilitated by Patrick Oliver, an Enviromental Science Teacher and former organic farmer....
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 3:52pm PDT
audioPG&E, Wave Energy and the North Coast (audio/mpeg 5.6MB) by Christina Aanestad
Energy Giant, PG&E, Pacific Gas and Electric wants to develop wave energy off the Mendocino and Humboldt County coast lines and tidal energy off the San Francisco coast. But, environmentalists and fishermen are concerned about the renewable energy's potential impacts on marine life and the North Coasts fishing economy....
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 2:36pm PDT
textScientists see drastic drop in Arctic sea ice - down 25% since 2005 by jt
Impact of Arctic heat wave stuns climate change researchers...
Posted: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 10:39am PDT
textButte Environmental Council Seeks Court Involvement in Protecting Area Ground Water by STOP Aquifer Agua Theft!
Chico, CA – Butte Environmental Council (BEC) has challenged Glenn Colusa Irrigation District’s (GCID) project that it claims is exempt from environmental review. The proposed project will install more wells into the deep portions of the aquifer underlying Butte, Glenn, and Tehama counties to test their capacity to extract ground water....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 6:02pm PDT
calendarHow the US Can Insure Energy Supply for the Future by Heidi Moseson
World Affairs Council Auditorium 312 Sutter St, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94108...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 10, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 3:49pm PDT
textSave the Trees Sit In - Direct Action by Presidio Residents
Healthy beautiful pine trees are being cut down in the Presidio without public process or resident imput. Petitions asking for a halt to the project have been submitted to the Presidio Trust who are essentially ignoring the residents. We need help to delay the cutting of the trees in order to present our case at a community meeting (which we have so far been denied). We have lost trees already and 2 more are slated to be destroyed Tuesday October 2nd 2007. Please get involved and help us ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 12:22pm PDT
textLight Brown Apple Moth -LBAM Facts by chemtrails911
You will be sprayed with a biochemical pesticide for 6 nights 11/4-11/9 several times a year until 2010. The focus is over residential areas....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 10:57am PDT
calendarFairfax Town Council{ordinance restricting car washing in residential areas} by
Fairfax Women's Club at 46 Park Road. meetings end a guess...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 9:23am PDT
calendarSan Anselmo Planners set hearings on 4 residential projects by
Tuesday at the Town Hall at 525 San Anselmo Ave. meetings end a guess...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 9:18am PDT
textMayans in Guatemala: No Compromise, Halt Mining by Brenda Norrell, NarcoNews (reposted)
Sunday, September 30, 2007 TUCSON, Ariz. – Gold and silver mining in the Mayan homelands in northern Guatemala, near the border with Chiapas, Mexico, is poisoning the water and explosives are destroying the homes in the rural farming community of Sipakapa, Guatemala....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 8:02am PDT
textUnbowed: Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai on Climate Change, Wars For Resources, the Greenbelt Movement and More by via Democracy Now
Monday, October 1, 2007 : As President Bush convenes a special meeting on climate change, we speak to a woman who has been on the frontlines of the popular struggle for the environment long before the current global warming crisis: Kenyan ecologist and Green Belt Movement founder, Wangari Maathai. "I would wish, especially with respect to climate change, that America would provide the leadership that is needed and not be the one that is falling behind," Maathai said....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 8:00am PDT
calendarGo Solar Marin 1st meeting by
The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. in the Tamalpais Room at the San Rafael Corporate Center at 750 Lindaro St. meeting end a guess...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 10:57pm PDT
calendarCritical Mass in Oakland by Sandy Sanders
Meet outside the 14th & Broadway BART station entry at Frank Ogawa Plaza (City Hall) Gather around 5:30 to 6:00 and ride! at Critical Mass...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 9:46am PDT
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