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Under Mayor Gavin Newsom Spin reigns and Quality of Life Issues are down the drain.
Mayor Gavin Newsom does not have answers when given the data it can be proved that Quality of Life Issues in the last 3 years is at its worst in San Francisco. Poor people are suffering and dying from lack of health care and compassion. Our youth are suffering and the youth have NO respect for Mayor Gavin Newsom. Our infrastructure is in bad shape with millions of gallons of sewer leaching into our watershed. Mayor Gavin Newsom is about Spin and Media hype....
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 2:54pm PST
Green Bloggers Meet
P0st on recent Commonwealth Club meeting of environmental blogger hosted by Gil Friend on 1/31/06. Event to be possibly broadcast on KQED-FM...
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 9:29pm PST
Protesters vow to stop Calpine Energy Corporation's plans to destroy Medicine Lake
Protesters vow to stop Calpine Energy Corporation's plans to destroy the Sacred Medicine Lake Highlands and other Native cultural and natural places...
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 5:43pm PST
Oil Addiction? - The Quickest Reduction
What has been termed "kindergarten traffic management" [this group move 2 blocks forward and stop......now children. this group move 2 blocks forward and stop] could provide, if abandoned, a 10 to 20% reduction in oil usage in a matter of months.......the largest and quickest reduction possible....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 3:34pm PST
Disney at the Presidio of San Francisco
Disney now has plans to open up some of its marketing operations at the Presidio of San Francisco. Disney, is touting a museum and aiming to leaser some of the 100 series buildings on the Main Post. First it was George Lucas and it got a bargain$5 million lease for a long, long time. Now here come Mickey Mouse and Mickey Mouse one would wonder is into Preservation and Preservation?...
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 8:17am PST
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 02/01/06
Last Friday, Yellowstone National Park sent the last of the 672 captured wild buffalo to slaughter....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 1:47am PST
Alaskan ice floe crashes into oil-laden tanker
A tanker carrying almost five million gallons of oil and petrol broke free of its moorings while loading at an Alaskan refinery yesterday and began leaking into the Cook Inlet approach to Anchorage....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 6:38pm PST
Change Who You Imagine You Are
"The roots of climate change lie not just in the technological infrastructure we've built to exploit fossil fuels, but in the habits of mind and heart created by that infrastructure.. Getting over hyperindividualism is as crucial as getting over oil.."...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 6:50am PST
Humboldt Baykeeper to Sue over Balloon Tract Pollution
Group Cites Violations of Clean Water Act and Other State and Federal
Environmental Laws and Detrimental Impacts to Humboldt Bay and Public Health...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 10:15am PST
Avian Flu Scam (audio/mpeg 2.4MB)
Bush Administration Profiteering From Bird Flu Leads to a Balm from Giliad...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 7:42am PST
France exports toxic waste in defiance of international law
On January 22, after 10 days of quarantine at the gates of Port-Saïd in Egypt, the decommissioned French aircraft carrier Clemenceau was finally allowed to pass through the Suez Canal on its way to the breakers yard in Alang on the east coast of India. The French government’s flouting of international law and its indifference to the health and safety of workers is at the centre of the 10-day long saga....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:38am PST
Supreme Court Rules for Water Quality, Against Palco
Court says Palco's interpretation of water quality law "makes no sense."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 10:55pm PST
Stop the Replacement of Methyl Bromide with Methyl Iodide!
Please write EPA immediately and tell them not to allow the
registration of methyl iodide for agricultural use....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 9:32pm PST
BTL:Airborne Toxic Sediment Endangers New Orleans Residents
Interview with Wilma Subra, a McArthur award-winning environmental chemist, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 4:56am PST
Public Housing in San Francisco
Public Housing in San Francisco has enslaved thousands because the Housing Authority and the City and County of San Francisco and now Mayor Gavin Newsom has chosen to use residents in Public Housing as a ploy. The Mayor's Office of Community Development and the Mayor's cronies continue to use residents in San Francisco's Public Housing as stooges and this must stop. Jesse Blout from the Mayor's Office of Economic Development and Work Force is doing nothing to help the poor folks that live in ...
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2006 5:57pm PST
Calphine Energy Corporation intent to pollute Medicine Lake Highlands.
Calphine Energy Corporation refuses to pay heed to the First People and more to reason to butt out of the area know as Medicine Lake Highlands. We have met with the authorities and have explained to them that this is not about money and greed but about respect for Mother Earth. Again and again some greedy corporation such as the Calphine Energy Corporation will not pay heed but this time we will gather in force and fight this war - one battle at a time....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 7:08pm PST
Fire Salvage Logging On Hold In Sierra's Due to Lawsuits
"These well-funded environmental groups seem to want to stop logging and forest management at any cost," said Mike Albrecht, president of Sierra Resource Management, a Sonora-area logging company....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 9:16pm PST
New Lawsuit Demands the Delisting of Marbled Murrelets
The following was originally posted at saveancientforests.blogspot.com...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 9:00pm PST
Jan. 27th Films in Arcata to Highlight Struggle to Bring the Klamath Salmon Home
Locals and Tribal leaders to present films, discuss dam removal efforts
Arcata, CA - Klamath River residents are coming to Arcata this Friday as the first stop in a string of multi-media events in California and Oregon to build support for efforts to remove dams and bring the Klamath salmon home....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 7:35pm PST