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Restore the Delta Voices Opposition to Peripheral Canal at Congressional Hearing 
Restore the Delta, a Delta-based grassroots group, voiced its strong opposition to the Governor's proposed peripheral canal at a Congresisonal Resources Subcommittee hearing this morning in Vallejo....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 4:10pm PDT
San Francisco the City that knows how has NO sitting Epidemiologist San Francisco the City that knows how does not have a sitting Epidemiologist. Now, how could that happen with the current increase of AIDS and other such diseases. The bombardment of Asbestos Dust and other toxic dust in and around Parcel A - with the SF Health Department looking the other way. The SF Health Department with a $1 Billion dollar budget and growing is a disgrace to the human race. Some one must take responsibility - but before that Dr. Mitch Katz must go - he must resign....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 8:22am PDT
Lennar keeps defying innocent constituents all over this Nation. Lennar Corp. keep defying the innocent constituents and continues to adversely impact thousands all over this Nation. Lennar tried taking on Mike Morgan a great guy who had the guts to question the dubious ploys of Lennar in Florida - read his web site. Closer to home we have been meeting City Officials in high places - who are pretending that they " know not " the dubious ploys of Lennar - even though many of them have been on the pay roll of Lennar BVHP LLC....
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 12:54pm PDT
Around the Globe, Farmers Losing Ground Saturday, June 30, 2007 : WASHINGTON, Jun 27 (IPS) – In 1938, Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traveled abroad to look at lands that had been cultivated for thousands of years, seeking to learn how these older civilisations had coped with soil erosion....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 6:03pm 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, Jul 6, 2007 5:45pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 11:24am PDT
The Joyful Alternative of Critical Mass 
For just a couple of hours on the last Friday of each month, hundreds to thousands of cyclists informally ride together to claim the streets which are normally ruled by automobiles. The gathering is part celebration and part peaceful protest. The main message: we still have a choice to live our lives in a way that is more thoughtful of the world's resources, to live in a way that is more nurturing of life and health, and to live our lives with more joy....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 1:09am PDT
Why 'green building' is an oxymoron What are the true environmental benefits of the "green" house movement?...
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 1:50pm PDT
Extreme weather wakes US up to climate change Thursday, June 28, 2007 : US public opinion is rapidly waking up to the threat posed by global warming, despite the best efforts of the Bush Administration and much of industry to deny the problem....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:23am PDT
10-year-old Korean American Creates Green Hero Friday, June 29, 2007 : A 10-year-old Korean-American boy is earning international acclaim for his cartoon creation, GoGreen Man, an environmentally friendly superhero who fights against the forces of global warming, reports the Korea Daily....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:23am PDT
Nearly Two Years After Katrina, Gulf Coast Residents Fighting Environmental Neglect, Privatization Friday, June 29, 2007 :
Twenty two months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf region of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, residents are still fighting to save their communities. We speak with Monique Harden, co-director of the New Orleans-based Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, and organizer of a caravan of Katrina activists to the U.S. Social Forum this week....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:01am PDT
Congress to Hold Hearing on Cheney’s Role in Klamath Fish Kill 
The House Natural Resources Committee will soon convene an oversight hearing about Dick Cheney's role in the change in Department of Interior policy that led to the Klamath River fish kill of 2002 - and to massive die-offs of juvenile salmon and steelhead every year since....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 12:20am PDT
Former EPA head defends US government lies about post-9/11 safety conditions Thursday, June 28, 2007 :Christine Todd Whitman, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, told a Congressional panel on Monday that she stood by the claims that she made shortly after that the attack that the area’s “air was safe to breathe.”...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 10:32pm PDT
Eric McDavid Update - Fundraising, Website Updated, and More We still have quite a way to go before we reach our goal of $15,000......
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 2:00pm PDT
White Whale forces Military Retreat in US-Australian War Games 
Migaloo, the white humpback whale, is forcing the USA and Australian military forces to reconsider using the Great Barrier reef for war games. The USA and Australian Defence forces have faced down a civil disobedience peace campaign against their Talisman Sabre War Games, from June 19 to July 2, at Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 9:43am PDT
Dick Cheney Engineered Klamath River Fish Kill of 2002 
This morning's article by Joe Becker and Barton Gellman in the Washington Post discloses how Dick Cheney engineered the Klamath Fish Kill of 2002, a move that inflicted irreparable harm on the lives of thousands of commercial fishermen, tribal fishermen and recreational anglers, as well as on the economy of Northern California and Oregon.
While an angler will get cited for keeping a coho salmon or using a hook that isn't considered barbless enough, corrupt officials like Cheney and his un...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 3:02pm PDT
Help Win MILLIONS for Green Jobs Training: Support HR 2847 We're brimming with excitement here at the Ella Baker Center, because Representative
Hilda Solis has just introduced the "Green Jobs Act of 2007" in Congress!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 11:33am PDT
California wildfire in new surge Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Firefighters in California suffer a setback as a wildfire jumps a village defence line, forcing hundreds to flee....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 8:08am PDT
Worst Case Climate Scenario? We've Got It! Times 2 Two paragraphs from the British newspaper The Observer
about a Pentagon study:
"A secret report, suppressed by US defense
chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns
that major European cities will be sunk beneath
rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian'
climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts,
famine and widespread rioting will erupt across
the world."
"The [secret] document predicts that abrupt
climate change could bring the planet to the
edge of an...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 11:28am PDT
UC Biofuel Grant Expected, Contractor Sought For New Lab Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Federal officials will announce today whether or not a coalition of UC Berkeley-affiliated labs will capture a $125 million grant to fund a new biofuel lab....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 9:06am PDT
NYC Residents & Workers Accuse Whitman & Bush Administration of Covering Up Dangers of Toxic Air After 9/11 Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :
On Monday, two busloads of Ground Zero workers and residents traveled to Washington to hear Christine Todd Whitman's testimony. We hear from two members of the group Beyond Ground Zero, environmental attorney Joel Kupferman and Democracy Now co-host Juan Gonzalez who attended Monday's hearing....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:34am PDT
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