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Bay Area Biologist Fighting for Sharks in South Africa A Bay Area resident is taking the fight to protect our oceans from Northern California to South Africa. This week, thirty-year veteran environmental activist and biologist, Todd Steiner, executive director the Marin-based Turtle Island Restoration Network and SPAWN, is in South Africa advocating on behalf of marine wildlife. Joined by several colleagues, he is attending a major international treaty conference to promote greater protections for endangered marine species, including two species ... Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 10:34AM
Thousand of Activists Call for Protection of Silky Sharks at U.N. Wildlife Conference This week conservationists delivered a petition signed by 15,002 global citizens to the Presidents of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala calling on them to support greater protections for silky sharks at an upcoming world wildlife conservation meeting.... Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:17AM
Special investigator to probe anti-rent-control petition complaints in Santa Rosa The residents are complaining that the signature gatherers are falsely claiming that the petition supports renter protections in Santa Rosa, and that they were tricked into signing it!... Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:44PM 
POW/MIA Recognition Day  Your home, restaurant, club and other venues wishing to observe 2016 POW/MIA Recognition Day.... Event Date: Fri Sep 16, 2016 12:00PM Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 2:39PM
Community Rally against the TTIP Vallejo Ferry Terminal, 289 Mare Island Way, Vallejo CA... Event Date: Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:00PM Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2016 10:05PM
CAA may be backing anti-rent control petition in Santa Rosa What is happening in Santa Rosa appears to be very similar to what happened in Richmond when the California Apartment Association (CAA) used a petition in 2015 to steal renter protections from the renters in that city!... Posted: Fri Sep 9, 2016 11:47PM
Silky Sharks Singled Out as Species to Protect at International Conservation Meeting in Ha This week, participants at an international conservation meeting in Hawaii set a new bar in the conservation of imperiled sharks by overwhelming voting in favor of a resolution to increase protections for silky sharks, a species facing dangerous declines due to industrial fishing practices. The resolution, advanced by Turtle Island Restoration Network, PRETOMA, and Nakawe Project at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress, received 95 percent fav... Posted: Thu Sep 8, 2016 9:13AM 
Greens to Protest Commission on Presidential Debates at Dominican (audio/mpeg 1.9mb) By calling itself the "Commission on Presidential Debates," the private corporation that controls presidential debates masquerades as a government entity. It is in fact a private, corporate-funded corporation controlled by the Republican and Democratic National Committees. A federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush recently tossed out a lawsuit brought against the so-called commission for excluding Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson. T... Posted: Mon Sep 5, 2016 12:32PM
New Study Links Eating Shark Fins & Meat to Alzheimer’s Disease A new study by scientists from the University of Miami has found high concentrations of toxins linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease in the fins and muscles of 10 species of sharks.... Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2016 8:45AM
Turtle Island Presents "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret" in Rohnert Park, CA Reading Cinemas Rohnert Park 16, 555 Rohnert Park Expressway, Rohnert Park, CA, US, 94928... Event Date: Wed Sep 7, 2016 7:30PM Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2016 8:40AM
Senator Ben Allen Nominated for Presidential Champions of Change Award Turtle Island nominated Senator Ben Allen (D – Santa Monica) for the prestigious White House Champions of Change Award.... Posted: Thu Sep 1, 2016 8:33AM 
California Mission Foundation Tries to Declare El Camino Real a UNESCO World Heritage Site  California Indians Demand Cruelty to Ancestors Be Disclosed as California Mission Foundation Tries to Declare El Camino Real a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photo: Map showing El Camino Real.... Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:25AM
Rent control is coming to Santa Rosa The renter protections, taking effect September 15, will require landlords to prove “cause” in court or before a political body every time they try to evict a resident or family, in an effort to displace them from the community!... Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2016 7:23PM
Legal Filing Seeks to Halt Ranching Expansion, Elk Eviction at Point Reyes OAKLAND, Calif., August 15, 2016 — The Resource Renewal Institute, Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project filed for a preliminary injunction in federal court Friday to block the National Park Service from pursuing a ranching expansion and elk-removal plan until the agency updates the park’s “general management plan” and assesses the environmental impacts of commercial dairy and cattle grazing at Point Reyes National Seashore.... Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:08PM
Administrative Appeal Challenges Destructive Napa Vineyard Development NAPA COUNTY, Calif., August 15, 2016 — The Center for Biological Diversity today challenged the approval of a large vineyard development northeast of the city of Napa, filing an administrative appeal with the Napa County Board of Supervisors. The large project will tear out 429 acres of undisturbed riparian, oak and native grassland habitat and develop it into vineyards sprawled haphazardly across the 2,300-acre Walt Ranch property; it will destroy habitat for the threatened California red-le... Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:01PM
Cool Effect & Proof Lab present #LetsSave  Proof Lab Surf Shop
244 Shoreline Hwy
Mill Valley, CA 94941... Event Date: Sat Aug 27, 2016 10:00AM Posted: Tue Aug 9, 2016 3:46PM
Conservationists Urge Increased Protections of Silky Sharks at International Meeting  Turtle Island Restoration Network and partner organizations are calling on the delegates at an upcoming global conservation meeting to take action to reduce the killing of silky sharks. These sharks are targeted for their valuable fins, and are in dire need of greater protections.... Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2016 10:19AM
#FreedomNow: Global Call to Action 7.21  The ACLU of Northern California supports the Movement for Black Lives and the collective #FreedomNow actions taking place globally on Thursday, July 21.... Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:01PM
Court Rules Lawsuit Over Point Reyes Management Plan Can Move Forward OAKLAND, Calif., July 19, 2016 — A federal court has rejected a legal motion by the National Park Service and refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by conservation groups seeking an updated “general management plan” and assessment of the environmental impacts of commercial dairy and cattle grazing at Point Reyes National Seashore, before long-term cattle-grazing leases are pushed through. The court earlier rejected a motion by ranchers to intervene in the lawsuit.... Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:40PM
School Supply Drive Drop-off locations throughout the Bay Area: http://www.foodispower.org/drop-off-locations/... Event Date: Fri Jul 22, 2016 12:00PM Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:44PM |