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Berkeley Residents March Against Pacific Steel 
Berkeley residents and Bay Area enviromentalists hold a march and rally to call attention to the excessive amount of heavy metals discharged into the atmosphere by the Pacific Steel Foundry....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 12:42am PST
Percy Schmeiser and Ignacio Chapella Speaking Monday 7pm at Live Oak Grange (11/13) Percy Schmeiser and Ignacio Chapella - speaking presentation and strategic dialogue on
genetic engineering in agriculture....
Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2006 5:18pm PST
Learning from the Past: Can the Klamath be Restored? This week state, federal, tribal and local biologists, restorationists, politicians and bureaucrats, as well as agricultural and fishing interests, will gather at the Holiday Inn in Redding, California for the three-day Klamath Basin Watershed Conference. The Conference title--Sustainable Watersheds Bring Sustainable Communities--will be pursued through three themes presented on successive days: 1.) We Are One Basin, 2.) Progress in the Basin, and 3.) Moving Toward Sustainability....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 6:41am PST
Debris Shelter Campout (11/11) An invitation to one and all to come to the Debris Shelter Campout!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 10:18am PST
FSRN: Global Threats to Ocean Diversity (audio/mpeg 4.0MB) A new study by a team of marine scientists outlined in the November 3 edition of Science Magazine asserts a decline in marine biodiversity in the Earth's oceeans. Overfishing, pollution, and other environmental factors will wipe out the global seafood supply by 2048, if steep declines in marine diversity continue at current rates. But as FSRN's Vinny Lombardo reports, its not too late to change the outcome and protect ocean wildlife. TRT- 4:24
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Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2006 11:18am PST
Action Alert: Pack City Council Chambers to Support Front Yard Gardens! Your support for legislation allowing the growing of fruit and vegetable gardens in front yards is urgently needed on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 12:30 p.m at Sacramento City Hall....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 2:15pm PST
Vote today; Job Opening; Protest Saturday Vote today; Job Opening; Protest Saturday 11/11...
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 1:27pm PST
Common Vision Tour Featuring Human, Arjun, Guardians, Rocker T and Jah Warrior Shelter 
Common Vision, the good people who are planting fruit trees and teaching percussion to school children throughout the state, are partway through their recycled-veggie-oil-powered benefit tour.
Please get out and support these incredible people... and have a great time rocking to some reggae sounds....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 5:54pm PST
Act Now to Remove Klamath River Dams! The NEPA comment period for the Klamath Dams is open and comments and hearings are coming up fast. The chance for dam removal through the FERC process only happens every 50 years, and the Klamath Salmon (and thus West Coast salmon industry), and the people whom depend on them can not wait 50 more years....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 4:53pm PST
Schwarzenegger claims to be an environmentalist, but his choice of vehicles and his his endorsements out him as a hypocrite f there is a single symbol of American wastefulness, military fetishism, and willful ignorance about what it means to be heating up the planet at the end of the age of oil, it is the Hummer. And if there is one American who is most closely associated with the Hummer, it is Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 6:41am PST
Klamath Riverkeeper Leads 35 Groups in Battle to Clean the Watershed 
The Klamath Riverkeeper organization made its debut at the recent State Water Resources Control Board meeting in Sacramento....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 10:38pm PST
California officials propose California Endangered Species Act Exemption for Klamath River California Fish & Game (CDFG) proposes giving agricultural operations in the Shasta and Scott Sub-basin of the Klamath River a virtual exemption from the California Endangered Species Act (C-ESA). The irrigators dewater the Scott and Shasta and, in drought years, Coho salmon, listed as “threatened” under the C-ESA, are among the fish killed. The proposed permit will not lead to Coho Recovery; it will allow dewatering to continue and put irrigators in charge of monitoring their own C-ESA comp...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 1:56pm PST
Percy Schmeiser tour 
Join Cal GE-Free coalition partner CCOF for GE-Free Education and Dialogue with Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian farmer whose canola fields were contaminated with GE seed, and in turn was sued by Monsanto.
Speaking at five locations around the Bay Area in November!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2006 2:45am PST
Klamath River News 11-1 Here's a bunch of events that you can attend to support dam removal on the Klamath River!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 8:52pm PST
Yosemite Slough concentrated with PCBs and other toxins by Monster Park It is shocking while thousands suffer from cancer and other diseases in the Bayview and Hunters Point area - Arc Ecology is getting over $386,000 from SF Redevelopment Agency for some fake outreach. Thousands of dollars from other State Agencies to create a fake Park and supposedly clean up PCBs and other toxins that is Yosmite Slough. There is no way one can compare Crissy Field at the Presidio of San Francisco with Yosemite Slough....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 5:41pm PST
Klamath Riverkeeper Leads 35 Groups in Battle to Clean the Watershed 
The Klamath Riverkeeper organization made its debut at a meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento on October 25....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 2:59pm PST
Fish Group Sues Department of Water Resources For Taking Endangered Salmon The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance opened a new offensive in the battle to save the Delta when it sued the State of California for failure to protect endangered salmon and Delta smelt....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 12:52pm PST
Join California Safe Schools & Tell EPA Pesticide Labels Should Identify ALL Ingredients! Our national pesticide law only requires that certain ingredients in a pesticide (called the active ingredients) be identified on the label. All the others are misleadingly called inert ingredients, and are not identified. These same ingredients escape from most of the testing and evaluation required for active ingredients. They're...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 5:51pm PDT
Indy Tests of Dust Fallout Point to Toxic Fingerprint of Troubled Berkeley Steel Plant New independent tests of dust fallout from the West Berkeley neighborhood surrounding Pacific Steel Casting Company (PSC) point to the known toxic fingerprint of the troubled facility. Frustrated by the company's failure to release a legally mandated Health Risk Assessment, which required tests of pollution sources at PSC, community members decided to do their own tests....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 8:13pm PDT
Join Pesticide Watch in protesting ChemLawn's pesticides 10/26 Sacramento Valley residents are already exposed to enough pesticides. We certainly don't need individual homeowners adding known carcinigens to the neighborhood by using ChemLawn toxins. Protest ChemLawn in Sacramento 10/26 @ 11 am, ChemLawn headquarters; 1700 N. Market Blvd. # 103.....
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 6:02pm PDT
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