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All Sizzle, No Steak
Just last week, the state of Wisconsin launched an investigation into charges that Wal-Mart fraudulently puts the organic label on products that don't meet USDA standards for these sorts of items. It's another example of how Wal-Mart says one thing and does another....
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 12:41pm PST
Government Scientists Accuse Bush Administration of Interfering, Misleading on Climate Change
According to a new survey, hundreds of government scientists say they have perceived or personally experienced pressure from the Bush administration to eliminate phrases such as “climate change” and “global warming” from their reports and public statements.” One of those scientists -- NASA climatologist Drew Shindell – testified Tuesday before the Committee on House Oversight and Government Reform....
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 7:47am PST
January 22, 2007 Prison Dispatch
It is no secret to many of my friends and loved ones that I have become hardened and numb to so many things. In fact, my cynicism has become one of my endearing qualities. I am greatly amazed by that.
So, it may sound strange that for the first time since I began my struggle against human caused climate change I am hopeful....
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 12:14am PST
Women's Environmental Network Speaker About Cosmetics and Cancer
Address: 1931 First Ave, Walnut Creek, CA 94597
Telephone: 925-935-1978
if you go, please tell them about indybay's calendar and that they should post to it!...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 5:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 11:10pm PST
Momentum builds toward Klamath dam removal
In final fishway prescriptions issued today, federal agencies stood firm on their requirement that PacifiCorp install fish ladders and screens and make other modifications at its four dams on the Klamath River, to help the river’s imperiled salmon runs....
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 1:26pm PST
ISF on Palco Bankruptcy
Managing Scopac properties based on community forestry standards offers significant benefits in both economic and ecological terms:
* Increased late seral stage stand conditions from 12% to 54% of the overall acreage in the first 30 years, 100% in 60 years.
* $3 billion in long-term debt-free income over the second 30 years – double the long-term income and local economic impact of the Traditional Timber Management Model in the same period.
* Steady increases in forest invent...
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 7:55am PST
Federal Agencies Issue Final Mandates for Klamath Dams
Today is a historic day in the struggle to restore the Klamath River. The Department of Interior and Commerce issued final mandatory terms and conditions for the relicensing of PacifiCorp dams that require fish passage, paving the way for the removal of four dams that block the migration of salmon, steelhead and other fish. This huge victory wouldn't have happened without all of the political pressure over the past few years by a broad coalition of Klamath Basin Indian Tribes, commercial fish...
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2007 7:38am PST
Rally & Protest to Protect Sacred Places: Save Medicine Lake!!
San Jose, CA - Pit River Indian Tribe members and Indigenous and environmental justice supporters delivered an eviction notice to Calpine Corporation in downtown San Jose on Monday, January 29, 2007 demanding they drop their decades-long attempt to build polluting power plants in the Medicine Lake Highlands near Mount Shasta. Tribal members and supporters vowed to nonviolently defend Medicine Lake from any attempts to build power plants at this area that is profoundly sacred to area Native p...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 8:02pm PST
ANCIENT OAK GROVE AT UC BERKELEY WINS COURT INJUNCTION
Today Alameda County Superior Court Judge Barbara Miller issued a Preliminary Injunction barring the University of California at Berkeley 's proposed removal of a century-old stand of native Coast Live Oaks in response to motions filed by the California Oak Foundation and its co-petitioners including Save the Oaks at the Stadium....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 7:03pm PST
The Pace Arctic Global Warming is Staggering
....the change "is happening so extremely
fast, much much faster than we have seen
in thousands and thousands of years. It
could have an unpredictable result."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 2:23pm PST
Glaciers (water supply) Melting 6 X Faster Than '80s
"They melted on average about 1.6 times
faster annually this decade compared with
the 1990s, and about six times faster than
in the 1980s."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 12:34pm PST
Turn everything off for 5 minutes!!!
On February 1st you can participate in the worldwide greatest action against climate change!!!
Turn everything off - On February 1st between 7:55 p.m. until 8 p.m.....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 6:07am PST
Sustainable Harvest Benefit Compilation Release
Oakland Metro
201 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 28, 2007 11:31pm PST
Photos from Anti-PG&E action at the LGBT center
In reaction to PG&E's massive greenwashing campaign, a group of protesters crashed the PG&E press conference at the LGBT center, where they were unveiling their newly installed solar panels. The protesters wanted to make it clear that installing solar panels on one building did not make this billion dollar corporation 'green'. PG&E owns less than 1% solar energy facilities and 2% wind. It has also lobbied against incentives for individuals to install solar panels in the recent past. Go to let...
Posted: Sun, Jan 28, 2007 8:39pm PST
Letter Writing Party for Black Mesa
Oakland, CA 94609- try calling/emailing for more info...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 28, 2007 8:20pm PST
Act Now: Stop Peabody Coal
We must not allow history to repeat itself by allowing the US government and mining
interests to put profit over people, antiquity, and water resources....
Posted: Sun, Jan 28, 2007 8:11pm PST
Susan Leal is no Engineer and cannot lead the SF Public Utilities Commission
Susan Leal is no engineer and cannot and will not ever be able to lead the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. So far, Susan Leal has failed us with the Clean Water Project and especially Hetch Hetchy. Now, without completing the Clean Water Projects she wants to deal with the Waste Water Projects linked to San Francisco and waste millions of dollars. Susan Leal makes $300,000 a year with perks and has a written contract without any qualifications. Time will tell....
Posted: Sun, Jan 28, 2007 8:18am PST
PG&E’s Greenwashing Countered by Make Out Session
Today was the first public action of a guerrilla collective dedicated to exposing PG&E’s massive and misleading PR campaign wallpapering our city for the last few months....
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 6:19pm PST
Hoopa Tribe wants government to help spawning salmon
Here is the latest press release from the Hoopa Valley tribe regarding the relicensing of PacifiCorp's dams on the Klamath River....
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 4:04pm PST