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Giant Sequoia Alert! On July 11, Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California's 21st District introduced bill HR 5760 titled the "Giant Sequoia National Monument Transition Act of 2006," which would allow expired timber sales to be implemented in the Monument. The purpose of the bill is to arbitrarily counteract the court decisions of 2005 that halted timber sales grandfathered in by the Proclamation and to forestall a protective ruling by federal Judge Breyer....
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 8:43pm PDT
International Permaculture Conference 8 (May '07) Newsletter 2 Finally, the last point, and this is important. Will everybody please start preregistering as soon as possible? This will be an enormous help. We need to get an idea of where we are at with everything....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 1:18pm PDT
UN environment agency set to begin aerial surveillance of Lebanese oil spill Following assurances from Israeli authorities of safe passage for its flights, the UN's Environmental Programme (UNEP) is swiftly moving to begin aerial surveys of the massive oil spill that affected some 150 kilometres of Lebanese and Syrian coastline....
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 9:33pm PDT
Center for Food Safety and Earth Justice Victory re: GE Food Trials in Hawaii Court Rules Federal Government Acted Illegally In Permitting Field Trials Of Genetically Engineered (GE) Crops In Hawaii
Ruling First Ever on Controversial Drug-Producing GE Crops...
Posted: Fri, Aug 18, 2006 1:42pm PDT
Beirut: Toxic air a major health hazard BEIRUT - Chemicals and dust from the buildings hit during Israeli air strikes on Lebanon have badly polluted the air and land, local nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and government officials have warned....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 10:39am PDT
Peak Oil - A Radio Internet Story Exchange Podcast (audio/mpeg 13.7MB) 15 Min. Excerpt of 58-min R.I.S.E. audio documentary on Peak Oil. Intro to the Peak Oil Issue. 128 KBPS Mono. Self Contained. No Anchor Intro needed. XML subscription to R.I.S.E. Podcasts available at R.I.S.E. web site listed below....
Posted: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 12:06pm PDT
Sea Shepherd 'Leviathan' to challenge Japanese Whaling 
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has purchased a bigger, faster and more powerful boat in its campaign to assert international law and stop Japanese commercial whaling. The 'ice class' vessel, 'Leviathan', is undergoing a refit in the Carribean before it joins the 'Farley Mowat' in Melbourne ahead of the next Japanese whale hunting season in the Southern Ocean in December....
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 10:18pm PDT
There Comes a Time to Stand in the Way Resistance to Roadless Logging...
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 9:08pm PDT
BTL:Government/Industry Effort to Revive Nuclear Power is Misguided & Dangerous Interview with Harvey Wasserman, author & energy activist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Aug 12, 2006 6:45am PDT
Global Warming as a Human Rights Violation -- A Radio Internet Story Exchange Podcast (audio/mpeg 13.7MB) 15 Min excerpt of 58 min R.I.S.E. audio program in which Kellia Ramares interviews Sheila Watt-Cloutier about how global warming is harming Inuit culture. Ms. Watt-Cloutier is chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference....
Posted: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 10:28am PDT
California Food & Justice Coalition August 2006 Newsletter In this Issue
:: CFSC Conference and Dismantling Racism Training in Vancouver, October
7-11
:: WIC Receives a Nutritional Upgrade
:: Federal Farm Bill Discussions Brew
:: California Fresh Start Program
:: 2006 State and Federal Legislation Update
:: South Central Farm Update
:: Member Announcements jobs, events, alerts and more......
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 11:28pm PDT
Permaculture in the West Bank A new programme which brings together British and Palestinian fair trade
organisations has highlighted the role of sustainable agriculture in
supporting livelihoods in the West Bank....
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 8:20am PDT
Feeding Ourselves: Organic Urban Gardens in Caracas, Venezuela In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Venezuela, Noralí Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of the Organopónico Bolivar I, the first urban, organic garden to show its green face in the heart of the city of Caracas, Venezuela....
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 8:08am PDT
Lebanon Facing its Worst Environmental Disaster Ever: Oil Spill From Israeli Strike Scientists are scrambling to control what is being described as the worst environmental disaster ever to hit Lebanon. An Israeli attack on a power station last month has leaked 15,000 tons of oil into the Mediterranean. The spill has gone untreated for the past four weeks. We go to Beirut to speak with Lebanon's environment minister and an environmental activist working in the area....
Posted: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 7:16am PDT
Rod Coronado Sentenced to 8 Months Today! Rod recieved an eight month sentence and was taken into custody at about noon today. The judge felt that it was very important to preserve fear of/respect for the law, otherwise anarchy may prevail....
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 9:09pm PDT
E-mail the EPA Highly toxic organophosphate neurotoxins pesticides--azinphos methyl and phosmet--pose "unacceptable" poisoning risks to workers who are exposed to them- please contact the EPA and tell them to ban these!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 9:39am PDT
Oil Spill Reaches Syrian Coastline 
Report, UNEP, 4 August 2006...
Posted: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 10:13am PDT
Organic Bytes: New Directions for Organic Consumers Thanks to millions of conscious and ethical consumers like yourself, we are transforming the
marketplace--voting with our dollars, Euros, and pesos for health, justice, and sustainability.
A growing army of health and eco-minded global citizens have the unprecedented potential to
change the world.. The sixty-year reign of chemical and energy-intensive industrial agriculture
in North America and Europe appears to be drawing to a close...
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 11:28pm PDT
Lindane withdrawn for agricultural use in U.S., Bt Cotton increases insecticide use and mo Lindane withdrawn for agricultural use in U.S., Bt Cotton increases insecticide use, New risks of West Nile spraying, Campaign for Pesticide-Free parks, and more...
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 12:00am PDT
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