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Fight the use of pesticides in Oakland: Go to Local Impact and send a free fax to the City Council....
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 9:51am PST
The four-year, $24 million study — the largest-ever to show how people are changing their environment — found that humans had depleted 60 percent of the world's grasslands, forests, farmlands, rivers and lakes....
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 9:43am PST
Two versions of the ordinance to use herbicides in the
prevention of wildfires are scheduled to go before the
Oakland City Council next Tuesday, April 5, 2005, at
7pm (6pm to get seats, and sign up to speak)....
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2005 10:49pm PST
Thousands to Be Part of Canada Seal Hunt...
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2005 5:31pm PST
The California Wilderness Coalition's report lists a Karuk Tribal Sacred Site as one of the 10 most endangered wild places in California....
Posted: Tue, Mar 29, 2005 11:15am PST
Just a reminder to email/write/phone the mayor of
Berkeley today! Repost from Burnveggies Biodiesel Digest...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 6:09pm PST
The march and rally to take down the PaciCorp dams on the Klamath River attracted over 400 people. Although NPR and local TV stations covered it, not a word about the historic event appeared in the Sacramento Bee (Surprise, Surprise!)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 5:27pm PST
Don't miss the Future of Food film showing in Sacramento on March 31!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 5:14pm PST
DawnWatch: UK Independent on dolphins deaths & Time Magazine on seal hunt and boycott 3/26/05 - 4/4/05...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 4:09pm PST
The Ecology Center, Berkeley Biodiesel Collective, and
BioFuel Oasis urge you to email and/or call the
Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and tell him that the city
should continue to run their vehicles on 100%
biodiesel (B100)....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 11:57am PST
On Friday, police arrested 37 riders and confiscated dozens of bicylcles. Last week, the city filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the group TIME'S UP! from promoting or advertising events that the city alleges to be illegal. The lawsuit also states that TIME'S UP! and the general public cannot participate in riding or gathering at the Critical Mass bike ride....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 8:16am PST
Skimming the peaks of mountainous waves, plunging into space then hitting the bottom of watery canyons with a great slap that leaves your stomach some way behind, the inflatable boats tear across the English Channel towards the target....
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2005 8:50am PST
Innovative Waste Strategy: Berkeley's Race to Zero...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 11:09am PST
The neo-cons are aware that Americans are un-informed (by corporate design) and domicile (courtesy of ESPN). Americans will not leave the couch and a good game on TV to stand out on the street to protest anything nowadays. So the onslaught continues. Congress is making haste at taking away rights that have been built up through decades of struggle....
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 10:34am PST
Reports coming in this morning indicate that the Eight Dollar Road is blockaded by an activist suspended over the road in a bi-pod, effectively keeping log trucks out of the Fiddler Timber Sale.
Yarding and hauling of timber at the Fiddler sale began recently. This morning's blockade is an attempt to halt this work and to highlight the ongoing logging of old growth reserves. Meanwhile, the courts continue deliberating on the merits of two separate cases that will determine if this activity...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 8:30am PST
Heron's Head Park is a Toxic Dump. Our children should not be taken to a toxic dump....
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 7:18am PST
Public interest groups seek emergency stay on Regional Water Board decision to allow Pacific Lumber logging in impaired areas....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 6:34pm PST
oday, Water For People (WFP), an international humanitarian organization, celebrates World Water Day (WWD) with its volunteers and supporters throughout the North American water industry. Many public utilities and companies across the United States and Canada will be participating in educational awareness programs such as guided tours of water and wastewater treatment plants, classroom discussions and presentations to kindergarten through 12th grade students....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:01am PST
Water Conservation Showcase Tuesday, March 22 11:00 AM
This email is a notice about an upcoming showcase on water conservation
to be held in San Francisco at the Pacific Energy Center, 851 Howard
Street on March 22. To register for this event go to
http://www.pge.com/pec/watershowcase You can also register
for any Energy Center classes by calling 415.973.2277....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 10:57am PST