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Bush salmon plan for Columbia dams rejected
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A federal appeals court Monday strongly rejected the Bush administration's 2004 plan for making Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams safe for salmon, saying it used "sleight of hand" and violated the Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 7:38am PDT
Golden Gate Park - Access to all parts at all times every single day.
Golden Gate Park is meant for all people and those that are Physically Challenged have every right every single hour, of every single day - every single year - to have access to the Golden Gate Park on their term. It is wrong for any Group to meet behind doors against the Brown Act to adverse impact any segment of the population. This has been done from the on set. All parts of the Golden Gate Park should be accessible to each and every citizen using any means of transportation....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:53pm PDT
Climate change report outlines dire impact of global warming
On April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group II Summary for Policy Makers from its report on “Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.”...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:28pm PDT
Van Jones: "Growing Greener, Growing Together"
College's Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 7:19pm PDT
Its "Leave you Gas Guzzlin/Polluting Car Home Day!"
A single day's abstinence of gasoline usage in the U.S. would conserve hundreds of millions of gallons of gas from being consumed (and spewed as poisonous exhaust into our breathable atmosphere!) and would also vastly increase stockpiles of gasoline so that prices,and related taxes and fuel related inflations would have to come down!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 4:46pm PDT
Why the recent Climate Report was so Harsh
Here is a collection of reports about the scientific
studies being conducted around the world from
just the past few months. These are the reports
that went into the IPCC's data bank and where
from they came to their latest estimates and
projections. The first few have been published
after the Feb. 2 IPCC release.
The majority of them are from foriegn news
agencies and were never published in the US
media. Our corporate media wants you to know
every detail of a woman who decides...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 1:48pm PDT
Baker and Pizzeria on the Ropes After Dispute With PG&E
After nearly three decades as a baker, Cindy Gershon is not burned out. Her business may be, however, following the smoky failure of the electrical cables that carry the power into her Walnut Creek bakery and an ongoing dispute with PG&E over exactly whose responsibility this is....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:47am PDT
EarthVision International Environmental Film Festival
Del Mar Theater Pacific Ave. Santa Cruz,April 11,12, Santa Cruz Vet's Hall, Front Street., April 12,13....
Event Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 2:01pm PDT
Yosemite Slough by Candlestick Park saturated with PCBs and the most toxic area
Yosemite Slough by Candlestick Park is saturated with the most dangerous PCBs. Add to that lead, mercury, Chrome waste, dumped paint and tires, and over 40 of the most dangerous toxic elements and you have a cesspool that will take millions to clean up. The Navy's radiological contamination has not helped. The slow clean up allows this Slough a few hundred feet from Parcel E and the Shipyard to continue to pollute Yosemite Slough further - every single day....
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 10:25am PDT
Occupation of Barrick Gold: World’s Largest Gold Mining Company.
Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold's Australian mining operation in Lake Cowal was shut down today by protesters. In the lead up to Barrick's annual shareholder meeting, over 80 people occupied the mine site to bring attention to land justice and water equity issues surrounding the open-pit mine, which has just passed its first year of full operation.
Barrick's mines are associated with environmental justice, indigenous rights, and water issues around the world. Barrick is actively protes...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 10:42pm PDT
Support the Eco-Prisoners, Easter 2007
However, despite the delay in publication ELP has
some fantastic news. For the first time in ages ELP is able to bring some
good news!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 5:59pm PDT
Crossings Borders – The Revenge of Huitlacoche
The Revenge of Huitlacoche/La Venganza de Huilacoche
Conceived and performed by José Navarrete
runs April 6, 7 at EastSide Cultural Center, Oakland at 8pm.
April 12 – 14 at ODC Theater 3153 17th Street, San Francisco at 8pm....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 2:25pm PDT
Edible Santa Cruz Bike Tour
Edible Santa Cruz meets at the corner of Bay and High streets near the bike racks, at the base of UCSC campus....
Event Date: Sat, Apr 28, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 11:22am PDT
Amazonian Manatee is under extinguishing risk. It's not the only one...Why?
We want to make in the place a first experience of an untouched reserve with respectful exploitation, in permanent expansion, that later can be taken to other regions of the world....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 9:14pm PDT
Zachary Running Wolf Pretrial Hearing
661 Washington Street, dept. 115 (sixth floor), Oakland...located near the 12th Street BART station....
Event Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 10:47am PDT
Climate change 'to hit poor hard'
The poorest people in the world will be hardest hit by the effects of climate change, experts at a major conference on global warming have said....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:27am PDT
Amazonian Manatee is under extinguishing risk. It's not the only one...Why?
We want to make in the place a first experience of an untouched reserve with respectful exploitation, in permanent expansion, that later can be taken to other regions of the world....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 9:35pm PDT
Judge Orders State to Shut Down Pumps to Save Delta Smelt, Salmon
Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled that the California Department of Water Resources must obtain a "take permit" from the Department of Fish and Game for any endangered Delta smelt, spring run chinook salmon and winter run chinook salmon that it kills in the water export pumps of the California Delta....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 5:54pm PDT
Warming 'already changing world'
Climate change is already having major impacts on the natural world, a UN report is set to announce....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 5:32pm PDT
Zachary Running Wolf Legal Absurdity Circus Continues
Preliminary hearing ends with the Wolf's defense team rejecting an offer to plead guilty in exchange for three years of probation with conditions. The pretrial hearing is scheduled for April 18th at 2PM at 661 Washington Street, dept. 115 on the sixth floor, in Oakland (near the 12th Street BART station)....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 5:04pm PDT