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Federal Judge Orders More Water for Vanishing Fish in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta 
Trent Orr of Earthjustice comments on the landmark ruling by Judge Oliver Wanger in the federal district court in Fresno on Friday, August 31. Wanger ordered that flows of water through the California Delta be increased between December 2007 and June 2008 in order to protect the Delta smelt from becoming extinct....
Posted: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 4:27pm PDT
CSPA Advisory: Delta Fishery Recovery and Restoration Vision 
The following advisory by John Beuttler summarizes the "Delta Fishery Recovery and Restoration Vision" of the Allied Fishing Groups and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance submitted to the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force. "Our vision includes the recovery and restoration of all the species resident to the Delta and its tributaries including Sacramento winter-run and spring-run Chinook salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon and pelagic species including Delta smelt, long-fin smelt, ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 2:50pm PDT
Vatican seeks to become carbon neutral TISZAKESZI, Hungary: This summer the cardinals at the Vatican accepted an unusual donation from a Hungarian start-up called Klimafa: The company said it would plant trees to restore an ancient forest on a denuded island by the Tizsa River to offset the Vatican's carbon emissions....
Posted: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 9:27am PDT
Closing the Pesticide Loophole Originally From New America Media
Monday, September 3, 2007 : While landowners have always been required to take blood samples from employees who work around pesticides in California, a loophole in the law did not require them to send the results to state agencies. A class-action lawsuit in a small all-Mexican community has spurred legislation to close that loophole reports NAM contributor Lizeth Cazares....
Posted: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 7:15am PDT
Argentines angry at Uruguay plant Monday, September 3, 2007 : Hundreds of environmentalists cross the border to protests against wood pulp plant....
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 1:58pm PDT
Certified Organic 
Soil Born, Sacramento's only certified organic farm....
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 12:59pm PDT
Ross Valley Sanitary Dist. Meet[regional sanitation agency Larkspur/San Rafael 1301 Andersen Drive in San Rafael....
Event Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 6:45pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 11:00am PDT
Times Atlas revising maps to show changes in geography caused by climate change The latest edition of the Times Atlas has been altered to reflect changes to the world's landscapes caused by climate change....
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 9:54am PDT
Australia: Anti Whaling protest targets Japanese PM during APEC visit Whale conservationists had promised a protest against Japanese Whaling to coincide with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit to the APEC meeting in Sydney. A long and detailed press release had been prepared and the protestors were to gather outside the Japanese consulate in Brisbane. Half a dozen people representing Whale Watch operators from Whale and Dolphin Watch Australia Inc turned up matched by an equal number of police....
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 7:31am PDT
Australia: APEC Climate Change protest shuts down Victorian Coal Power Station Activists have shut down power generation at the Loy Yang power station in Gippsland's Latrobe Valley in Victoria on Monday morning for five hours, as a protest against inaction on climate change by the Australian Government of John Howard, and policies that maintain the coal power industry and its contribution to climate change at the expense of developing renewable energy production. The action was undertaken to send a message to APEC leaders to take real action on Climate Change and the Ky...
Posted: Sun, Sep 2, 2007 6:59pm PDT
Judge Orders State and Federal Governments to Reduce Delta Pumping 
U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger on Friday ruled to restrict water deliveries from the California Delta’s massive export pumps to the Bay Area, Central Valley and Southern California to protect the threatened delta smelt, an indicator species....
Posted: Sat, Sep 1, 2007 7:31pm PDT
Critical Mass in Oakland! Meet outside the 14th & Broadway BART station entry at Frank Ogawa Plaza (City Hall)
Gather around 5:30 to 6:00 and ride! at Critical Mass...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 7, 2007 6:15pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 1, 2007 12:08am PDT
D.C. District Court Rules Against Recovery of Endangered Species in Habitat Plans Court decides that the definition of conservation does not include recovery, thus Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs) do not have to conserve endangered species, just keep them on the brink of extinction. Over 500 HCPs have been approved by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1994-2004, permiting the killing of over 500 listed and rare species with destruction of over sixty million acres nationwide....
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 7:07pm PDT
Klamath News: PacifiCorp in court, dam and road removal, and more 
Regina Chichizola, the Klamath Riverkeeper, gives an excellent rundown on the latest news and action alerts regarding the battle by Klamath Basin Indian Tribes, fishermen and conservationists to restore the Klamath River. The two action alerts are to (1) contact the Klamath National Forest Office and tell them to remove roads and (2) write a letter to the editor to major newspapers supporting the removal of PacifiCorp's Klamath River dams....
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 8:15am PDT
Oak Grove update 
Resistance to the fence around the Oak Grove continues in court and "on the ground."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 10:11pm PDT
TREE DE-FENCE at the oak grove Memorial Oak Grove at top of Bancroft Way, just north of International House, in front of Memorial Stadium. This is on the UC campus in Berkeley. Berkeley BART is the closest and BART is free on this day. Then 20 min walk up the hill....
Event Date: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 9:30pm PDT
Berkeley Treesit Video (video/mpeg 37.3MB) These videos were shot by a tree-sitter the day UCPD fenced in the treesit at Memorial Grove. The first shows a supporter being violently arrested for handing food to a treesitter. The second video is one of our own doing an interview with the corporate news media....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:55pm PDT
Photos from the Berkeley Tree-sit 
These photos were shot by a treesitter in the trees when UCPD fenced in the treesitters on August 29....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:29pm PDT
Microclimate change: Global Warming and the Bay Area 330 Ritch
330 Ritch St
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 541-9574...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2007 7:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 4:05pm PDT
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