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textClimate change 'to hit poor hard' by BBC (reposted)
The poorest people in the world will be hardest hit by the effects of climate change, experts at a major conference on global warming have said....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:27am PDT
textAmazonian Manatee is under extinguishing risk. It's not the only one...Why? by Emilio de Lima
We want to make in the place a first experience of an untouched reserve with respectful exploitation, in permanent expansion, that later can be taken to other regions of the world....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 9:35pm PDT
imageJudge Orders State to Shut Down Pumps to Save Delta Smelt, Salmon
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by Dan Bacher
Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled that the California Department of Water Resources must obtain a "take permit" from the Department of Fish and Game for any endangered Delta smelt, spring run chinook salmon and winter run chinook salmon that it kills in the water export pumps of the California Delta....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 5:54pm PDT
textWarming 'already changing world' by BBC (reposted)
Climate change is already having major impacts on the natural world, a UN report is set to announce....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 5:32pm PDT
textZachary Running Wolf Legal Absurdity Circus Continues by Craig Stehr
Preliminary hearing ends with the Wolf's defense team rejecting an offer to plead guilty in exchange for three years of probation with conditions. The pretrial hearing is scheduled for April 18th at 2PM at 661 Washington Street, dept. 115 on the sixth floor, in Oakland (near the 12th Street BART station)....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 5:04pm PDT
calendarRace Against Global Warming Kickoff by Elizabeth Borelli
The Duck stage at San Lorenzo Park 137 Dakota St., Santa Cruz (Behind the county building on Ocean St.) http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us/pr/parksrec/photogallery/thumb_sanlorenzopark.htm...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 12:30am PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 2:15pm PDT
textBuffalo Field Campaign - Update 04/05/07 by BFC Repost
About fifty wild buffalo were harassed along Yellowstone's northern boundary yesterday. While we expected that the buffalo were satisfied with the Park's early green-up, they always keep us on our toes, challenging human assumptions and doing the unexpected....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 1:17pm PDT
calendarPossible Bike Church in Watsonville by Ramiro
Brown Beret Headquarters (406 Main St., Suite 408A) Behind Ritmo Latino in Watsonville....
Event Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 12:45pm PDT
imageFidel Castro on Ethanol, Global Warming, and World Food Prices
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by Fidel Castro
Reflections of Fidel Castro: Fidel Castro on Ethanol, Global Warming, and World Food Prices THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF GENOCIDE...
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 11:47am PDT
calendarZachary Running Wolf Preliminary Hearing in Oakland by Zachary Running Wolf
Oakland Courthouse, 600 Washington Street, dept. 115, near the 12th Street BART station....
Event Date: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 11:40am PDT
textRegional Economics Against Climate Change by Norbert Rost
Modern industrial society faces a dilemma. On one hand, people of industrial countries do not want to abandon their assets and habits or way of living. On the other hand, the climate problem ends up in destruction of humanity if emissions continue as in the past....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 10:28am PDT
text4/29: 4th Annual Bay-Friendly Garden Tour by via BFG
Visit a wide assortment of Bay-Friendly Gardens on this FREE, self-guided tour. Over 40 public and private gardens will be featured throughout Alameda County, including an entirely new crop of gardens! Several of the garden clusters are walkable and/or bikeable....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 9:27pm PDT
imageWild Earth 2007: The Wild and the Human
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by Zoe Blunt
Activists share skills at an eco-action “boot camp,” June 1 - 7. What started as a one-week campout on Vancouver Island in 1999 has grown to include more than 800 people and 75 workshops on tree-sitting techniques, blockade tactics, indigenous rights and campaigns, herbal first aid, green anarchy, and more. Operating on a shoestring budget – in some years, no budget at all – a few volunteers put on an event that participants call “amazing.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 9:31pm PDT
calendarThe Myths of Biofuels by Dennis Brumm
851 Howard Street, San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 8:24pm PDT
textGlobal "Climate Divide" Growing Between Rich and Poor Countries by Democracy Now (reposted)
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is set to release a report this Friday that is expected to underline that while global warming is changing physical and biological systems on every continent, Western countries must take extra steps to address the growing "Climate Divide." We speak with New York Times environmental reporter, Andrew Revkin....
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 8:35am PDT
textSupreme Court Rules EPA Can Regulate Greenhouse Gases by Democracy Now (reposted)
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate the emission of "greenhouse gases" linked to global warming. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that the EPA violated the Clean Air Act by improperly declining to regulate new-vehicle emissions standards to control the pollutants that scientists say contribute to global warming. We speak with New York Times environmental reporter, Andrew Revkin....
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 8:34am PDT
textBiodiesel Bulletin - April 2, 2007 by via National Biodiesel Board
Cummins Approves B20 Biodiesel Blends for Engines NextEnergy Biodiesel Summit Sets Goals for Research Don’t Get Left Behind on Fuel Quality National Trucking Company’s Biodiesel Study Shows Positive Results AFVI National Conf. in Full Swing; Local Public Welcome on Wed. 2007 to be a Bumper Crop Year for Biodiesel Legislation Earthrace Record Attempt Continues Despite Tragedy Houston Power Plant First in U.S. to Run on Biodiesel Biodiesel U: Collegiate Exposure to the Alt Fuel...
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 11:04pm PDT
textSupreme Court votes 5-4 empowering the Clean Air Act by Francisco Da Costa
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling declared that carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. There were laws in the books that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House chose to use the lesser degree favoring not to use stringent measures and take measures that were dubious in nature. This ruling will change and help curtail carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases linked to standards. For sure it will help us here in California and San Franci...
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 7:48pm PDT
textNine SUV's Defaced by "Eco-Vandals" by person
Taken from "The Daily Democract"....
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 5:18pm PDT
calendarEarth Day at Stinson Beach - Third Annual art-with-nature event by Zach Pine
South end of Stinson Beach...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 12:32pm PDT
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