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Protest Calpine's Proposed Power Plant on Native Lands!
Rally at 10 a.m. at Plaza De Cesar Chavez Park
South Market Street and 50 W. San Fernando Street
Protest at high noon at Calpine Headquarters
50 W. San Fernando Street, San Jose...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 10:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 1:22pm PST
County sponsored meeting regarding Chevron Refinery Fire
County responds to Chevron oil Refinery fire with a community meeting in Point Richmond set for Wednesday evening....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 1:01pm PST
UK Campaign aims to reduce the mountains of waste
The shrink-wrapped swede, bought from a London supermarket at the weekend, says it all. Why on earth add a skin to something that's got a tough enough skin of its own?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 6:47am PST
The Growth Spiral
Growth in justice, opportunity and environmental caring requires iden-tifying blind spots and abandoning myths. Economists must learn to subtract. The state must control the market so everybody shares in wealth and increased productivity. Growth is more a spiral than a circulation....
Posted: Mon, Jan 22, 2007 6:20am PST
Environmentalist and Activist is this week's guest on McChesney's Media Matters
This week's guest on Media Matters has not yet been announced, save that the guest is an enviornmentalist.
Bob McChesney is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The media are central to all our lives,” he says. “Yet the media are the most frequently misunderstood parts of our lives. We want to help people understand the role of media in so...
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 11:03am PST
January 29 Action for Medicine Lake!
Native Peoples & Supporters To Protest at Calpine in San Jose against Proposed Power Plant at Sacred Medicine Lake near Mt. Shasta
Tribal Members to Deliver Eviction Notice to Calpine
Monday, January 29, 2007, San Jose, California
Rally at 10 a.m. at Plaza De Cesar Chavez Park
South Market Street and 50 W. San Fernando Street
Protest at high noon at Calpine Headquarters
50 W. San Fernando Street, San Jose...
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 10:12am PST
Direct Action Training for Sacred Site Protection
Communication Workers of America Local 9423 offices
2015 Naglee Avenue , San Jose , CA 95128....
Event Date: Sun, Jan 28, 2007 6:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 10:07am PST
Join Us in Protecting Sacred Sites -- Protest @ Calpine HQ in San Jose!
Rally at 10 a.m. at Plaza De Cesar Chavez Park
South Market Street and 50 W. San Fernando Street
Protest at high noon at Calpine Headquarters
50 W. San Fernando Street, San Jose...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 10:00am PST
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 10:03am PST
Robert Fisk: Fear climate change, not our enemies
From this wreckage was bound to come the insurgencies and the hatred...
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 8:22am PST
Principles and Controversies of Evolution
Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
http://www.HumanistHall.net...
Event Date: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 1:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:45pm PST
Humboldt Watershed Council reacts to Palco bankruptcy
The Pacific Lumber Company (Palco) filed for bankruptcy protection today, after years of speculation as to its financial viability. The bankruptcy includes both Palco and its subsidiary Scotia Pacific Corporation (ScoPac), as well as other subsidiaries Britt Lumber, Scotia Inn, Scotia Development, and Salmon Creek LLC....
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:02pm PST
Pacific Lumber Files for Bankruptcy
Long-anticipated bankruptcy papers filed by Pacific Lumber....
Posted: Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:59pm PST
SF Post Carbon General Meeting
We're meeting at 50 California Street, Suite 3350.
Directions and Logistics: The address is 50 California Street (just off Market), corner of Davis. You can enter the building from the middle door on Davis Street. Please give your name to the guard. Take the middle set of elevators. On the 33rd Floor, Suite 3350. REMINDER: Please e-mail (richard@katznip. com) so that we can leave your name with the building guard....
Event Date: Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:26pm PST
Rally At Threatened Oak Grove Welcomes Students Back
One week after police raided the tree-sits at the grove of heritage oaks on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley (UCB), supporters of the oaks are holding a press conference and rally to update the community and welcome UCB students back from mid-year break....
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:28pm PST
Yellowstone Bison Update from the Field 1/18/07
Yesterday, January 17, 2007, marked the start of the latest phase in the Montana bison hunt....
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 1:34pm PST
Richmond residents not alerted about Chevron Refinery Fire on Monday 1-15
Richmond residents in immediate vicinity of Chevron refinery outraged by lack of warning about Monday's accident -- by audible sirens or by telephone warning system in English or native languages...
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2007 1:32pm PST
Green Company bids to Manage Lawrence Livermore Labs (audio/mpeg 3.4MB)
Livermore Labs GREEN, a consortium of environmental and social justice groups filed a formal complaint with the National Nuclear Security Administration today, alleging the agency wrongfully rejected it’s bid to manage the Livermore National Laboratory. Livermore Labs GREEN claims its bid to manage the nuclear weapons research facility was rejected because of misinformation and its environmentally friendly vision for the labs....
Posted: Wed, Jan 17, 2007 7:05pm PST
The Economics of Building a Nuclear Power Plant in Fresno
It was only seven years ago when the promise of cheap electricity through deregulation helped plunge California into a deeper budget crisis and robbed ratepayers of their hard earned money. They are poised to do it again. Nuclear proponents are grateful for our citizenry’s short memories. Now, nuclear power advocates promise cheap, clean, safe energy and jobs. This section focuses on the economic viability of nuclear versus renewable energy and conservation....
Posted: Wed, Jan 17, 2007 6:44pm PST
“Leaping Steelhead” Conservation Awards for 2006
Here are my annual "Leaping Steelhead" Awards for 2006. I instituted these awards in response to the hard work than many folks have done for environmental justice and fish restoration on our state's lakes, streams and estuaries. While some of the people here have been recognized already for the marvelous work they do, others have received little or no recognition.
I also came up with these awards in response to the "awards" given by the state and federal governments and some environmenta...
Posted: Wed, Jan 17, 2007 3:05pm PST
Projects stalled in Yellowstone - Privatization coming?
The news in Yellowstone this week suggests that the growth in private property values outside Yellowstone National Park and an increasing reliance on private funds within the National Park Service are working ominously toward privatization in Yellowstone itself. Several in Yellowstone projects have ground to a halt due to rising construction prices; the cause of the ills and the proposed cure both directly relate to capitalism....
Posted: Wed, Jan 17, 2007 12:50pm PST