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Derrick Jensen speaking in Santa Cruz tonight (3/29) Derrick Jensen will be speaking in Santa Cruz tonight at the Vet's Hall downtown, as a benefit for the legal fees of eco-prisoners arrested in the recent 'green scare'.
"All across the country, I ask activists and others, 'Do you believe our Culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?' Out of hundreds of people I've asked, not a single one has answered even remotely in the affirmative." -Derrick Jensen...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 2:13pm PST
Desertification -- The Oldest Form of Climate Change The only way we can address desertification -- perhaps the world’s oldest form of climate change -- is by taking a holistic view that blames not human-induced activities so much as natural processes that have been at work for thousands of years. The Chinese may have evolved the most advanced approach, based on an understanding that people have found ways to live with and even flourish in desertified regions. Franz Schurmann, emeritus professor of history and sociology at UC Berkeley, has watc...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:33am PST
PL Bear River Oldgrowth Clearcutting Plan Update 
an update on a plan to clearcut oldgrowth douglas fir on the Bear River side of Rainbow Ridge. http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 11:22pm PST
NEST is back! Help save Cascadia's Forests 
The Northwest Ecosystem Survey Team (N.E.S.T.) will begins its citizen surveys this Join. NEST looks for species listed under the Survey and Manage portion of the Northwest Forest Plan in order to get timber sales canceled or reduced in size. While George and his timber buddies removed Survey and Manage in 2004, a judge ordered it back in. NEST is seeking volunteers to participate in it's surveys that will be conducted in National Forests and BLM. Contact primateliberation(AT)yahoo(DOT)co...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 2:57am PST
Organic fruits and vegetables work harder for their nutrients - Produce has been losing vi yum...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 8:12pm PST
Protest Pombo Protest Richard Pombo at Hotel Alta Mira, Sausalito April 1...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 3:12pm PST
Darrick Jensen at the Vets Hall Wed "All across the country, I ask activists and others, 'Do you believe our Culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?' Out of hundreds of people I've asked, not a single one has answered even remotely in the affirmative." -Derrick Jensen...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 9:06am PST
Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe 
The average radioactive dose, according to official government index
based calculations, was about 23 million radioactive particles for the
average adult male in Britain and Europe....
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2006 10:29am PST
UN warns of worst mass extinctions for 65 years Submitted Original Publisher: David Adam,...
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2006 2:06am PST
EBWC- Spring courses and Events! Sign up now for April/ May Environmental classes!
Check out our upcoming events and workshops!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 9:39pm PST
The pollution gap Report reveals how the world's poorer countries are forced to pay for the CO2 emissions of the developed nations...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 4:46pm PST
Windmill Update, Date of Decision Changed to April 10th update on Windmill logging plan http://saveancientforests.blogspot.com...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 11:33am PST
IRS Audited Greenpeace At Request of ExxonMobil-Funded Group The Wall Street Journal revealed this week that a little-known watchdog group, largely subsidized by ExxonMobil, was responsible for getting the IRS to audit the environmental organization Greenpeace. We speak with the reporter who broke the story and the head of Greenpeace USA....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 7:12am PST
Ford Dealership Blockade, Palo Alto CA 
The Raging Grannies, RAN, Global Exchange, the Ruckus Society, CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, and San Mateo Peace Action Team Up to Tell Ford that Urgent Action is Needed to Break America's Oil Addiction!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 9:32pm PST
Local Residents Join Environmental Justice Allies to March on the Covanta Incinerator 
“We Want Clean Air and Health, Not Toxic Pollution from Incineration!”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 5:27pm PST
SCIENTISTS HAIL SAN FRANCISCO’S SIGNIFICANT NATURAL RESOURCE AREAS MANAGEMENT PLAN Three independent scientific reviews of San Francisco’s Significant Natural Resource Areas Management Plan reached a common conclusion this week: San Francisco’s progressive plan to protect the Bay Area’s most imperiled wildlife and plants is based on sound science and “does an outstanding job overall” of maximizing protection with limited resources....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 3:34pm PST
Support Indigenous Rights: Sign the Free Grassy Narrows Petition In Ontario, Canada, an indigenous community called the Grassy Narrows First Nation are being subjected to human rights abuses. Logging companies, Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi are clear-cut logging their land without the community’s consent. This exploitation is poisoning their waters with toxins, robbing the community of economic opportunities, and destroying their way of life.
Sign the petition - www.FreeGrassy.org...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 11:51am PST
San Francisco's Department of Public Works in Action - never! The Bus Stop at Arleta and San Bruno Aveue by the Seven Eleven Store has been hit by a MUNI bus and it ready to topple down. Now will the SF Department of Public Works repair this concrete toilet - or will it simply wait till some one get hurts and millions of dollars are given out as compensation. MUNI, DPW, and the SF City and County of San Francisco do not care about real, concrete - Health and Safety issues. Here is one great example - weeks have gone by....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 7:00am PST
Common Vision Rolls Into Town (3/24) 
Maybe you've seen the giant, turtle bus driving around town already. The Common Vision group is in town and educating folks about the interconnectedness of all life. Come out and meet them this Friday, learn more about what they are doing and have a great time!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 12:17am PST
Dell'Arte presents "SHADOW OF GIANTS" inspired by true story of North Coast tree-sitters 
Shadow of Giants is about the struggle over one redwood tree. It is a struggle with international ramifications, a struggle that involves tree-sitters, ghosts and mythology. An athletic ensemble of five actors portrays the ongoing conflict between environmentalists desperately fighting to preserve the last of the ancient forests, and the big timber companies who own them. It’s a story of a divided community, greed, hope, and power, told through dynamic physical theatre...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 5:10pm PST
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