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Eco-Orwell: How Green is Tom Friedman? Not long ago, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was America's top op ed cheerleader for George W. Bush's attack on Iraq, portraying it as a "war for democracy."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 6:47am PDT
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update 04/19/07 
Last week DOL bullies hazed approximately 400 wild buffalo off of National Forest land, despite a November 2006 agreement signed by all five Interagency Bison Management Plan agency heads, which was supposed to allow for "greater tolerance" of wild bison on public lands through May 15....
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 10:07pm PDT
Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future The first of many international walkers have arrived in England to begin an 86 day Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future from Dublin to London starting on the 12th of May 2007....
Posted: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 1:42am PDT
Step It Up: Thousands Gather this Weekend for Largest Ever-Rally Against Global Warming The group Step it Up is spearheading the National Day of Climate of Action on Saturday. Tens of thousands of Americans are gathering across the country in the largest-ever demonstration against global warming. Over thirteen hundred rallies, demonstrations and actions are being held in all fifty states to call on Congress to cut carbon emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050. We speak with Step it Up organizer Bill McKibben....
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:50am PDT
Who Killed the Electric Car? New Documentary Looks at the Mysterious Disappearance of the EV-1 General Motors has been at the center of one of the nation's largest controversies over clean emissions-cars. In 1996 the company introduced the EV-1 electric car in California and Arizona. Hundreds of the electric cars were soon on the road. Then they all disappeared. The mystery behind their disappearance is the subject of the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” We’re joined by the film’s director Chris Paine, and Chelsea Sexton, a former GM employee who worked on the EV-1 electric c...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:48am PDT
Climate Change and Affordable Housing: Time to Make a Strong Connection There’s no question the issue of climate change has reached a tipping point in America. Once relegated to technical journals and PBS documentaries, the national news media now splashes climate change issues across front pages and news broadcasts daily. States and cities throughout the country have begun their own initiatives to combat the problem, and the new Democratic-controlled House and Senate look poised to push the dialogue even further. One strategy in particular - increasing density i...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:13am PDT
Bush salmon plan for Columbia dams rejected GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A federal appeals court Monday strongly rejected the Bush administration's 2004 plan for making Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams safe for salmon, saying it used "sleight of hand" and violated the Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 7:38am PDT
Climate change report outlines dire impact of global warming On April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group II Summary for Policy Makers from its report on “Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.”...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:28pm PDT
Occupation of Barrick Gold: World’s Largest Gold Mining Company. 
Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold's Australian mining operation in Lake Cowal was shut down today by protesters. In the lead up to Barrick's annual shareholder meeting, over 80 people occupied the mine site to bring attention to land justice and water equity issues surrounding the open-pit mine, which has just passed its first year of full operation.
Barrick's mines are associated with environmental justice, indigenous rights, and water issues around the world. Barrick is actively protes...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 10:42pm PDT
Support the Eco-Prisoners, Easter 2007 However, despite the delay in publication ELP has
some fantastic news. For the first time in ages ELP is able to bring some
good news!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 5:59pm PDT
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update 04/05/07 About fifty wild buffalo were harassed along Yellowstone's northern boundary yesterday. While we expected that the buffalo were satisfied with the Park's early green-up, they always keep us on our toes, challenging human assumptions and doing the unexpected....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 1:17pm PDT
Wild Earth 2007: The Wild and the Human 
Activists share skills at an eco-action “boot camp,” June 1 - 7.
What started as a one-week campout on Vancouver Island in 1999 has grown to include more than 800 people and 75 workshops on tree-sitting techniques, blockade tactics, indigenous rights and campaigns, herbal first aid, green anarchy, and more. Operating on a shoestring budget – in some years, no budget at all – a few volunteers put on an event that participants call “amazing.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 9:31pm PDT
Global "Climate Divide" Growing Between Rich and Poor Countries The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is set to release a report this Friday that is expected to underline that while global warming is changing physical and biological systems on every continent, Western countries must take extra steps to address the growing "Climate Divide." We speak with New York Times environmental reporter, Andrew Revkin....
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 8:35am PDT
Supreme Court Rules EPA Can Regulate Greenhouse Gases The Supreme Court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate the emission of "greenhouse gases" linked to global warming. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that the EPA violated the Clean Air Act by improperly declining to regulate new-vehicle emissions standards to control the pollutants that scientists say contribute to global warming. We speak with New York Times environmental reporter, Andrew Revkin....
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 8:34am PDT
Biodiesel Bulletin - April 2, 2007 Cummins Approves B20 Biodiesel Blends for Engines
NextEnergy Biodiesel Summit Sets Goals for Research
Don’t Get Left Behind on Fuel Quality
National Trucking Company’s Biodiesel Study Shows Positive Results
AFVI National Conf. in Full Swing; Local Public Welcome on Wed.
2007 to be a Bumper Crop Year for Biodiesel Legislation
Earthrace Record Attempt Continues Despite Tragedy
Houston Power Plant First in U.S. to Run on Biodiesel
Biodiesel U: Collegiate Exposure to the Alt Fuel...
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 11:04pm PDT
Supreme Court votes 5-4 empowering the Clean Air Act The Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling declared that carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. There were laws in the books that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House chose to use the lesser degree favoring not to use stringent measures and take measures that were dubious in nature. This ruling will change and help curtail carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases linked to standards. For sure it will help us here in California and San Franci...
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 7:48pm PDT
Millions Threatened by Climate Change 3-20-07 Prison Dispatch
Earlier this year the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in their strongest language yet, attributed the earth’s current climate change to human activity. The report, the first of four, has lead to near daily news stories on global warming....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 12:03am PDT
Public Radio Airs Fox News Style Debate Against Climate Change On Saturday, March 31st I happened to be listening to KQED when they aired a debate by the organization Intelligence Squared on the motion “Global Warming is Not a Crisis.” The "debate" set as a reference frame that global warming is not a crisis and then had climate scientists debate a popular novel writer, Michael Crichton, to argue that it was a crisis. The moderator brought up misleading evidence of past "scientific" fads like a news media hype briefly in the late 70s that the world was c...
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 3:04pm PDT
Capitalism and the Consequences of Biofuels In today’s world the use of biofuels has led to horrific consequences for the people of the world and the environment. For example The division of the world -- between a handful of rich countries consuming most of the world's resources and the rest of tha planet, has meant that the growing of crops for fuel—mostly for export to Europe, Japan and the United States—is being done on large-scale plantations in the third world. In order to make room for these plantations ancient forests are bein...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 12:50pm PDT
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the field - 3/29/2007 "The slaughter of bison is not required in order to manage the threat of disease. Slaughter is not management. It is an approach from a bygone era and has no place in a time of rapid scientific and economic progress. We are capable of more ingenuity and more compassion if we are willing to try."
- From the Opening Remarks of U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall, II, Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources, before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Oversight Hearing on Yel...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 10:05pm PDT
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