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Richmond District Community Garden Organizes for Eviction Threat 
People from the neighborhood, supporters rally around a squatted "Guerilla Garden" that people in the neighborhood say has been transformed from an area of blighted waste to a community garden....
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 2:13pm PDT
Capitalism and the Consequences of Biofuels In today’s world the use of biofuels has led to horrific consequences for the people of the world and the environment. For example The division of the world -- between a handful of rich countries consuming most of the world's resources and the rest of tha planet, has meant that the growing of crops for fuel—mostly for export to Europe, Japan and the United States—is being done on large-scale plantations in the third world. In order to make room for these plantations ancient forests are bein...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 12:50pm PDT
From Global Warming to Local Action: Global Warming Symposium Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon St, San Francisco...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 12:37pm PDT
Sumposium on Global Warming and the Greening of California's Energy Resources April 11, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m., Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, 3301 Lyon Street, Tickets $10, students $5.
Speakers: Congressman Jerry McNerney, Presdient Michael Peevey (Calif PUC), Dr. Inez Fung, (Prof of Atmospheric Science) and many others....
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 11:11am PDT
Anger as UK's carbon dioxide emissions reach 10-year high A six-million-tonne question mark was placed over Britain's climate change strategy yesterday with the release of figures showing that UK greenhouse gas emissions, which the Government has pledged to cut radically, are actually soaring....
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 6:58am PDT
Public Testimony to Delist Siskiyou Mtns. Salamander RECEIPT OF PUBLIC TESTIMONY REGARDING THE PETITION TO DELIST THE SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS SALAMANDER AS A THREATENED SPECIES will be heard at April 12, 2007...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 1:31am PDT
SF: Defend Richmond Dist. Squatted Gardens! Fulton and Stayan, kittykorner from the NE corner of Golden Gate Park...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 9:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 11:58pm PDT
Defend Community Gardens in SF!! 
For more than three months people in the neighborhood around Fulton and Stanyan in the Inner Richmond have been gardening a piece of land that has sat vacant for decades. Now the landlord wants the garden destroyed....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 6:06pm PDT
Court Decision a Huge Victory for Salmon and Delta Smelt! Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch on March 22 ordered the State Resources Agency to “cease and desist” from further operation of the Delta pumps unless they receive a "take" permit as required under the California Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 10:15am PDT
Retreating Himalayan icefields threatening drought in Bangladesh Notorious for its annual floods, Bangladesh may seem the last place in the world to worry about a drying up of the rivers that flow from the Himalayas. But the country is as much at risk from drought as it is from flooding. Already farmers who used to grow rice have turned to farming prawns because the water in their fields has turned so salty nothing will grow there....
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2007 9:53am PDT
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the field - 3/29/2007 "The slaughter of bison is not required in order to manage the threat of disease. Slaughter is not management. It is an approach from a bygone era and has no place in a time of rapid scientific and economic progress. We are capable of more ingenuity and more compassion if we are willing to try."
- From the Opening Remarks of U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall, II, Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources, before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Oversight Hearing on Yel...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 10:05pm PDT
4th Tuesday Films: Black Diamonds-Mountaintop Removal & the Fight for Coalfield Justice 909 12th Street, Sacramento...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 4:57pm PDT
World Water Challenge Womens Building
3543 18th St.
San Francisco, California 94110...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 3:35pm PDT
Free Eco Film Night: Two Short Films Varnish Fine Art
77 Natoma St. between 1st and 2nd St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
http://www.varnishfineart.com/...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 12:23pm PDT
British Petroleum and the New Greenmail British Petroleum's proposed biofuel research deal with the University of California has sparked a growing resistance from a coalition based in UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources, claiming the deal is essentially a continuation of BP's current greenwash campaign. After much unfavorable publicity surrounding the mismanagement of oil tankers, pipelines, and refineries, BP began airing commercials on business friendly television channels hyping their renewable energy projects with the sl...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 6:19am PDT
Will Al Gore Deliver Us to Solartopia? l Gore has leapt to center stage with well-founded concerns about global warming. He has been gratefully successful in publicizing the fact that there is a virtual library of irrefutable evidence that carbon dioxide levels are rapidly rising in our atmosphere, that this is being caused by human beings, and that the potential impacts are catastrophic....
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 6:18am PDT
4/21 Diana Gazes - Birthing a New Human - Earth Healing This is an important active service project for mind/body/earth awareness groups, and those affiliated with Earth Day as well. Diana Gazes of www.thelighteam.com has been interviewed by well over 100 mass media outlets all over the world, spanning a 25 year period. Given the issue of increased activity in the volatile seismic-volcanic region known as the Ring of Fire, of which California is a part, and Diana Gazes ability to facilitate and activate awareness shifts in large groups of people...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 3:09am PDT
Diana Gazes - Birthing A New Human - Healing Our Cities Campbell Community Center - Rm C-35
1 W. Campbell Ave.
Campbell, CA 95008...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 3:00am PDT
WILPF video and speaker - Climate Crisis Friends' Meeting House, 225 Rooney St., Santa Cruz....
Event Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 12:10am PDT
Cleantech America LLC Hires San Joaquin Valley Manager To Promote Clean Energy FRESNO, CA… Cleantech America LLC, a San Francisco-based developer of utility-scale, environmentally clean solar farms, has hired Mark Stout as its San Joaquin Valley Manager of Community and Government Relations....
Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2007 10:02pm PDT
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