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Makah hunt gray whale, by treaty rights The 1855 treaty with the Makah tribe ensured the right to whale, seal, and fish in perpetuity. Some tribal members apparently carried this out without proper local permits....
Posted: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 4:05pm PDT
Green Business Networking Event Tamalpais Bank, Greenbrae Branch, 575 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae, CA...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2007 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 3:55pm PDT
APEC: The Sydney Declaration a Climate Distraction 
While thousands of people protested in the streets of Sydney about the war in Iraq, climate change, and civil liberties, the 21 APEC leaders made a fashion statement on the steps of the Opera House, before meeting inside and signing the Sydney Declaration - a statement on climate change, that is being widely criticised by environmentalists and climate activists....
Posted: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 9:22am PDT
Initiative Aims to Repeal California Nuclear Safeguards Law A nuclear energy initiative that would repeal California’s landmark Nuclear Safeguards Act was released today. “This initiative would open the door for new nuclear power plant construction throughout the state before—as the existing law requires—the federal government has approved and demonstrated a solution for the safe storage of high level radioactive waste.”...
Posted: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 9:06am PDT
2007 Environmental Justice and Air Pollution Workshop: Collaboration; Tools and Resources 2007 Environmental Justice and Air Pollution Workshop: Best practices in Collaboration, Tool and Resources was held at 75 Hawthorne Plaza in San Francisco. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 held the workshop which attracted EPA employees and officials from all over the Nation. There were advocates representing most of the wider regions but surely many were left out because of lack of outreach. Lack of space which limited the attendance due to Fire Code considerations - furthe...
Posted: Sat, Sep 8, 2007 8:26am PDT
Federal Court Ruling A Victory for Delta Smelt and the Ecosystem 
The Governor in a press conference on Wednesday used the recent court ruling ordering the state and federal governments to reduce pumping from the Delta to protect delta smelt as a cynical opportunity for his staff, agribusiness representatives and water agency to amp up his campaign to build the peripheral canal and more dams....
Posted: Fri, Sep 7, 2007 10:05pm PDT
Protest and Picket Bank of America's 37th Annual Investor's Conference (9/17) WHAT: Protest Bank of America's 37th Annual Investor's Conference
WHEN: Monday Sept 17; 11am
WHERE: Ritz-Carleton, 600 Stockton, San Francisco
CONTACT:sparkin@ran.org; 415-659-0524
INFO: http://www.dirtymoney.org...
Posted: Fri, Sep 7, 2007 10:33am PDT
Protest and Picket Bank of America's 37th Annual Investor's Conference WHAT: Protest Bank of America's 37th Annual Investor's Conference
WHEN: Monday Sept 17; 11am
WHERE: Ritz-Carleton, 600 Stockton, San Francisco
CONTACT:sparkin@ran.org; 415-659-0524
INFO: http://www.dirtymoney.org...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 7, 2007 10:31am PDT
Aboriginal Australians of the Burrup Peninsula Seek Commonwealth Protection Aboriginal Australian Group seeks Commonwealth Declaration to prevent a multinational corporate fossil fuel alliance led by Chevron from destroying the sacrred herritage of the Burrup Peninsula....
Posted: Fri, Sep 7, 2007 12:22am PDT
Kick Off Meeting in Sacramento to Save Sierra Nevada Forests ForestEthics, a local environmental group that protects endangered forests, will hold its kick off meeting in Sacramento on Wednesday, Sept. 12, from 6:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m. at the Sierra 2 Center, room 12, in Sacramento....
Posted: Fri, Sep 7, 2007 12:16am PDT
Restore the Delta Responds to Governors Call for Peripheral Canal, More Dams Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger held a press conference on Wednesday, September 5, in response to last week's federal court decision ordering a reduction in federal and state pumping. Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla responds to the Governor's amazing fallacy that reductions in water exports can somehow be offset by water delivery through a peripheral canal. In yesterday's carefully choreographed press event, Schwarzenegger administration officials joined statewide agribusiness and water "authorities...
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 4:36pm PDT
California Must Find an Alternative Water Source to Prevent Delta's Ecological Collapse 
Representatives of the West Coast's largest commercial fishing organization warned on Wednesday that the most important estuary on the west coast of North and South America, the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary, is in immediate danger of ecological collapse if water diversions are not sharply cut....
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 3:17pm PDT
Coronado Free Speech Case Goes To Trial in San Diego Rodney Coronado, well-known environmental, animal rights and Native American activist is facing charges brought by government prosecutors related to a public speech...
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 9:28am PDT
Recycling Ourselves to Extinction Thursday, September 6, 2007 : When I ask friends what are they doing for the environment, they inevitably say they are recycling. Yes, and… That’s it? We are a society that yearns for instant gratification. We are a society that is in complete denial. We are a society that does not want to hear the damage we are doing to our environment....
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 7:53am PDT
How Does the Media Cover Global Warming? Thursday, September 6, 2007 :
The Society of Environmental Journalists is holding its seventeenth annual conference at Stanford University this week. We take a look at how the issue of global warming is being covered in the media with two leading environmental journalists, Tim Wheeler of the Baltimore Sun and Jim Motavalli of E, The Environmental Magazine....
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 7:49am PDT
Fmr. Secretary of State George Shultz and Environmentalist Paul Ehrlich on Global Warming, Global Warring, China, ... Thursday, September 6, 2007 :
Democracy Now! broadcasts from Stanford University in California where the Society of Environmental Journalists is holding its 17th annual conference. On Wednesday night, the Aurora Forum held an event titled "Clean, Secure, And Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All?" Among the panelists was the still-highly influential George Schultz. He was President Reagan's Secretary of State as well as the head of Bechtel and is now a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Ins...
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 7:48am PDT
Australia: Climate Change to Hot for Bush and Howard 
Two ice sculptures of Australian Prime Minister John Howard and President George Bush are touring round Sydney during the APEC forum slowly melting in the sun as a reminder of the impact of climate change and the failure of these two leaders to ratify the Kyoto Protocol or set firm targets for greenhouse gas reduction....
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 1:48am PDT
Forest defenders hold all-night vigil at gate and announce location of action camp 
Tree-sitters are still up despite visit yesterday by Pacific Lumber Company's notorious climber Eric Shatz. Supporters spent all night at the gate with signs. Grizzly Creek State Park will be the location for the coming action camp....
Posted: Wed, Sep 5, 2007 3:27pm PDT
Oak Grove after Fences and Footbal 
The tree sit at the Oak Grove continues on....
Posted: Wed, Sep 5, 2007 1:54pm PDT
Action Camp September 6th-10th! Grizzly Creek Campground (Carlotta, CA) We are brought together with the common goal of preventing old-growth logging, clear cutting, the use of herbicides and non-sustainable forestry in all areas of the region, the nation and the planet....
Posted: Wed, Sep 5, 2007 12:38pm PDT
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