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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
Profits Frozen for Hmong Farmers The recent cold snap in the Central Valley has cut deep into the profits of citrus growers. But many small-time farmers in the Hmong community are hurt even more with their entire harvest wiped out....
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2007 10:17am PST
CRITICAL MASS IN OAKLAND Meet outside the 14th & Broadway BART station entry at Frank Ogawa Plaza (City Hall)...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 6:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 11:18pm PST
Critical Mass In Progress (video/mpeg 343.5KB) It's the last Friday of the month already?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 7:15pm PST
US answer to global warming: smoke and giant space mirrors The US government wants the world's scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming, the Guardian has learned. It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere would be "important insurance" against rising emissions, and has lobbied for such a strategy to be recommended by a major UN report on climate change, the first part of which will be published on Friday....
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 6:28pm PST
Now... what about OUR Plastic Bags and waste? Here is a story from the UK Independent about plastic waste.
It may be of interest to people here in San Francisco who have been fighting to get grocery shoppers to give up plastic bags and be more enviornmentally responsible. So far, their arguments don't take the human factor as much into account as this story does....
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2007 12:22pm PST
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