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Oakland: vote on pesticide ordinance POSTPONED to 3/22 The pesticide ordinance was to be discussed at the
Public Works Committee meeting today, but was pulled
from the agenda at the last minute, and postponed
until March 22, 12:30pm....
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 6:27pm PST
Old Growth Reserve Logging Begins at Biscuit (video/quicktime 11.8MB) 11 Arrested at Fiddler Timber Sale Blockade...
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 3:48pm PST
Old Growth Reserve Logging Begins at Biscuit: 11 Arrested at Fiddler Timber Sale Blockade 
John West of Silver Creek Logging Co. anticipated a fight over Fiddler Mountain. With 85 loggers ready to go, he expressed his intent to begin logging once a court mandate allowed controversial old growth reserve timber sales in the Biscuit Fire area to proceed. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued that mandate this morning, opening the fight West promised.
As dawn broke on the Green Bridge over the Illinois River near Selma this morning, 75 people gathered to block old growth reserve...
Posted: Tue, Mar 8, 2005 2:27pm PST
Global Roundtable on Sustainable Soy (RSS) to be Held March 17-18 in Brazil First Ever Global Roundtable on Sustainable Soy (RSS) to be Held March 17-18 in Brazil...
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 9:12pm PST
Film Showing/March & Rally: Bring The Salmon Home to the Klamath River! Take the afternoon off on March 14 to support the Klamath River tribes in their struggle to restore salmon populations. The event will be preceded the previous evening by a film showing of "Salmon on the Backs of Buffalo" at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento....
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 8:11pm PST
Biscuit/Fiddler Update - Old Growth Logging Begins - 11 arrests Old Growth Reserve Logging has begun on Fiddler timber sale unit 11 about 1 3/4 miles above the National Wild & Scenic Illinois River on the road to Babyfoot Lake (also known as the T.J. Howell Memorial Botanical Drive)....
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2005 1:05pm PST
U.S. Delaying Cotton Reform Oxfam Concerned U.S. Delaying Cotton Reform; U.S. Response to WTO Ruling Indicates Stalling, Poor Farmers Suffer Consequences...
Posted: Sun, Mar 6, 2005 10:44pm PST
Alliance to Save Energy Statement on Johnson/Holt 'Truth in Advertising' Bill Alliance to Save Energy Statement on Johnson/Holt 'Truth in Advertising' Bill...
Posted: Sun, Mar 6, 2005 10:42pm PST
Wild and Scenic Campaign for Cache Creek As AB1328 is introduced Cache Creek Wild activists are gearing up to protect their local river....
Posted: Sat, Mar 5, 2005 2:32pm PST
Update on pesticide ordinance - a little victory East Bay Pesticide Alert and representatives
of a few other environmental groups met with the City
Attorney yesterday. We won a little victory at this
meeting: The City will be required to produce a full
Environmental Impact Review if they continue to push
for this ordinance....
Posted: Sat, Mar 5, 2005 2:25pm PST
BTL:Grass-roots Campaign Organizes U.S. Citizen Support for Kyoto Protocol to.. ...Control Global Warming ~ Interview with Tom Stokes, of the Climate Crisis Coalition, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Mar 5, 2005 5:17am PST
Did taxpayers get fleeced in Headwaters deal? Pacific Lumber's private interest conflicts with public interest....
Posted: Thu, Mar 3, 2005 3:33pm PST
Bush Administration Declares War on Fish By Renewing Water Contracts The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced its decision to perpetuate
California’s fish and water problems for decades by beginning to sign
contracts with about 200 water districts and water contractors in the
Central Valley Project last week....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 9:36pm PST
Greenpeace Takes to Sámi Reindeer Forests Forest Rescue Station set up in Finnish Lapland...
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 7:45pm PST
Oppose Raising Shasta Dam (& alternatives 2 monoculture) An entire week of film showing benefits will unite Winnemem, Hopi & Environmental Leaders. A film/panel discussion at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento will be held on March 4 at 7 p.m., SF March 2, Oakland March 3...
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 11:57am PST
Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour Registrants
> on this free tour
> will receive passes to 56 gardens, and a printed
> garden guide. Garden
> talks will be scheduled throughout the day. A
> variety of bird- and
> butterfly-friendly, pesticide-free, water
> conserving, low maintenance
> gardens that contain 30% or more native plants will
> be open on
> Sunday, May 1, 2005, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
> various locations
> throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 10:47am PST
Fight Pesticides in Oakland: Free Fax Action Go to Local Impact and send a free fax to help fight the growing use of pesticides by the City of Oakland....
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 2:14pm PST
Siskiyou Wild Rivers Threatened Video (video/quicktime 16.9MB) The campaign to stop the largest logging project in modern history is entering a critical new phase. This fun and yet very serious video documents a creative rally held Feb. 5th on the T.J. Howell BOTANICAL Drive, passionate speakers, and most importantly a call to action....
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 12:57pm PST
Forest activists gather at Green Bridge 
The campaign to stop the largest logging project in modern history is entering a critical new phase- and Southern Oregon forest defenders are calling on all allies who are able to gather for a camp out at the Green Bridge on the Illinois River. Specifically, folks are asked to sleep by the river Sunday March 6th and attend a mass demonstration Monday morning, March 7th, the day the first-ever logging within designated old growth reserves is set to begin....
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 11:48am PST
Organic Sacramento Update Here's the upcoming events for Organic Sacramento....
Posted: Mon, Feb 28, 2005 6:04pm PST
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