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calendarWater Playshop - Connect to Your Urban Watershed by via list
SOMA Creativity Center 81 Langton Street, Suite 13 San Francisco, CA 94103 (near folsom/7th across from Brainwash cafe)...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 26, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 11:48pm PDT
textNestle corporation's after McCloud's aquifer agua by reclaim the commons
Water bottling giant Nestle corporation is pressuring McCloud residents to read two thick volumes of EIR before public comment period ends. Risks to aquifer and ecosystem following massive water withdrawal by Nestle are long term, more time needed to review EIR.....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 3:36pm PDT
textKATRINA COMMEMORATION EVENTS, UPCOMING! by via a list
> GREAT FLOOD COMMEMORATION EVENTS: ONE YEAR LATER > Take time to honor and remember our dead. Fight for the right to > return for all those still displaced. Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of New > Orleans....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 3:03pm PDT
textKlamath Dams Stand Trial In Sacramento This Week by Dan Bacher
The Tribes, federal and state agencies, conservationists, and fishermen have joined forces to defend a fish re-introduction plan for Klamath River salmon and steelhead in a Sacramento courtroom this week....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 11:31am PDT
textNorth Coast Earth First! by northcoastearthfirst.org
No compromise in defense of mother earth! Any time man chooses himself over nature, man loses....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 1:02am PDT
text8/19 on: Ride/Walk to Central Cinema for "An Inconvenient Truth," get Free Popcorn Refill by via a list
If you ride your bike or walk to see "An Inconvenient Truth" at the Central Cinema in Alameda, you can get a free popcorn refill....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 11:57pm PDT
image10/6: First Annual Berkeley Sustainability Summit
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by via Ecology Center
> The Ecology Center will be hosting this event on Friday, October 6, > from 9:00 to 3:00....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 11:46pm PDT
text9/9 cycles of change - the land and its peoples class begins by via list
The class is offered through Merritt College's Landscape Horticulture Department, beginning on Saturday, September 9. It will consist of nine Saturday field trips, each lasting from 10-4. It is not necessary to attend all the trips in order to take the class. If you choose to take the class for a grade, there will be a project at the end....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 11:42pm PDT
textTwo Bay Area Activists Re-subpoenaed to Federal Grand Jury by via list
hm, i don't see any details about when the re-subpoena occurred...
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 11:18pm PDT
textLockheed Martin in Bonny Doon Says No to Water Testing by via The Highlander (RBDA)
Lockheed Martin has declined a request by CCALM (Community Concerned About Lockheed Martin) to drill test wells to monitor ground water quality at their Bonny Doon facility at the end of Empire Grade. Lockheed continues to assert that there is nothing for local residents to worry about, although they have no records of disposal practices at the facility prior to 1984, leaving 26 years of missing information on waste disposal operations in effect before regulated mandatory environmental accoun...
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 9:30pm PDT
image"Windmill" Oldgrowth Forest Logging PLan Approved
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by Save Ancient Forests
Sierra Pacific Industries Windmill logging plan was approved yesterday. Logging could begin any time. The plan includes clearcutting Old Growth Douglas Fir near the coast, several miles north of Petrolia....
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 8:22pm PDT
textNo Backroom Deal on LNG! by Center for Biological Diversity
California is currently considering proposals to build coastal terminals to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) – an explosive fossil fuel – for the first time. LNG imports would handcuff our state to a new source of foreign fossil fuel at a time when we should be investing in a clean energy future....
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 4:05pm PDT
textStop Global Warming Now! by Center for Biological Diversity
The California legislature has until the end of this legislative session on August 31 to pass an historic new bill to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. This critical bill, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), will then need to be signed by Governor Schwarzenegger to become law....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 5:20pm PDT
textToxic Algae Threaten Human Health in PacifiCorp's Klamath Reservoirs by Dan Bacher
Besides killing fish, the Klamath River dams threaten human health by creating ideal growth conditions for toxic blue-green algae....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 4:31pm PDT
textToday is the Day! Take action to stop preemption in California by Center for Food Safety
Write your state Senate and House Assembly members. Call your State Senator and Assembly member and ask them to oppose SB 1056....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 11:49am PDT
textCalifornia’s Deadly Heat Wave Takes Toll on South Asian Farmers by Viji Sundaram, New American Media (reposted)
California’s deadly heat spell has been linked to 164 deaths. But it has also struck a mortal blow to the Central Valley’s peach farmers, 75 percent of whom are South Asians. Viji Sundaram is an editor at New America Media....
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 9:47am PDT
textRural Central Valley Community Members Demand Clean Drinking Water by Dan Bacher
La Asociacion de la Gente Unida por el Agua (AGUA) has submitted a petition to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board demanding that it live up to its mandate under California law to protect groundwater....
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 4:33pm PDT
textSpraying Opponents to Hold Press Conference in Davis Today at 5 PM by Dan Bacher
The battle to stop West Nile Virus pesticide spraying in Yolo and Sacramento counties continues with a press conference today....
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 4:13pm PDT
textPacifiCorp Willing to give up the lower four Klamath River Dams if Customers Protected by Dan Bacher
The Klamath Basin Tribes' battle to remove four Klamath River dams is one step closer to victory, as evidenced by a statement by PacifiCorp that it is willing to give up the dams if its power customers are protected....
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 9:25am PDT
textCentral Valley Town Battles Air Pollution by New American Media (reposted)
PARLIER, CA — Yolanda Zapata, who lives in the Central Valley town of Parlier, knows its air is ranked as among the dirtiest in the country. But she moved here six years ago because rent was cheaper than in Kingsburg where she lived for 15 years....
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 9:27am PDT
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