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Water Professionals from Across U.S. to Bring Critical Water Issues to Congress Water Professionals from Across U.S. to Bring Critical Water Issues to Congress; Key Issues Include MTBE, Infrastructure, and DoD Environmental Laws Exemptions...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 9:14pm PDT
Genetically engineered (GE) foods list I came across this GE shopping list which is quite helpful....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 10:47am PDT
Senate Bill 600 = Toxic Revelations The simple facts are that chemical companies developed chemical and biological weapons for our country. Back in World War One and Two, they made things like nerve gas. At some point, the watered down the nerve gas and started calling them "pesticides". This report (157) documents that the chemical companies and the pharmaceutical companies are really controlled by the same people.
Now that is a business plan, called "Poison for Profit" (157). Even more disturbing is wh...
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 1:07pm PDT
Republican Roscoe Bartlett warns of Peak Oil obtained by Aljazeera.net
Report: '...the problem of the peaking of world conventional oil production is unlike any yet faced by modern industrial society.'
It has long been denied that the US government bases any policy around the idea that global oil production may be in terminal decline.
But a new US government-sponsored report, obtained by Aljazeera.net, does exactly that.
Authored by Robert Hirsch, Roger Bezdek and Robert Wendling and titled The Peaking of World Oil produ...
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 7:58pm PST
EARTH MATTERS radio - Canadian Seal Hunt (audio/mpeg 14.1MB) EARTH MATTERS - weekly environmental news segment on KPFA's news magazine, FLASHPOINTS. This week: headlines, followed by an interview with REBECCA ALDWORTH, via satellite phone from the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where 20- 30,000 baby harp seals are being slaughtered every day....
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 1:57pm PST
Photos from the Canadian Seal Slaughter 
It's a big bloody mess with 300,000 seals slaughtered in a matter of weeks....
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 7:07pm PST
Sea Shepherd Crew Attacked by Sealers and Arrested 
Captain Paul Watson’s reports from the bridge of the Farley Mowat:...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 6:26pm PST
"Grandma Joan" Spends 14th Day in Jail 
Joan Norman is still incarcerated for her forest defense actions. Supporters are starting a fund-raiser:"Joanathon," raising money for each day she spends behind bars. Norman refuses bail; her next court date is April 25th.
Joan Norman, 72, of Cave Junction was arrested on March 14 during a demonstration blocking logging trucks from entering Fiddler Mountain, part of the Biscuit timber sale in the Siskiyou National Forest. This was Joan's second arrest that week. The courts revok...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 6:34pm PST
dolphin deaths and seal hunt/boycott DawnWatch: UK Independent on dolphins deaths & Time Magazine on seal hunt and boycott 3/26/05 - 4/4/05...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 4:09pm PST
NYPD Attempts To Criminalize Bike Riders Taking Part in Critical Mass On Friday, police arrested 37 riders and confiscated dozens of bicylcles. Last week, the city filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the group TIME'S UP! from promoting or advertising events that the city alleges to be illegal. The lawsuit also states that TIME'S UP! and the general public cannot participate in riding or gathering at the Critical Mass bike ride....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 8:16am PST
EARTH MATTERS radio - Global Warming, Climate Justice in Nepal (audio/mpeg 11.0MB) EARTH MATTERS is a weekly segment on KPFA radio's FLASHPOINTS. This week: Interviews from this year's Public Interest Enviro Law Conference (ELAW) in Eugene, Oregon. Peter Roderick, of Climate Justice Programme in UK, and Prakash Mani Sharma of Pro Public, Nepal, talk about how rogue states like the USA are making climate justice a global priority. mp3, 12:01 minutes...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 1:00pm PST
EARTH MATTERS radio- Jeff "Free" Luers speech from ELAW (audio/mpeg 9.2MB) EARTH MATTERS - a weekly segment on KPFA's FLASHPOINTS : Audio of Free's keynote address to the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (ELAW) in Eugene, Oregon, March 6th, 2005. Free talks about taking action against global warming and the need for people to get over their obsessions with tactical correctness. "We are united in our fate, therefore we must be united in our struggle." mp3, 10:00 minutes...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 12:46pm PST
EARTH MATTERS - Radio - Wolf Slaughter in Alaska (audio/mpeg 13.9MB) EARTH MATTERS - A weekly radio segment on KPFA's FLASHPOINTS. This week: Interview with Karen Deatherage from Anchorage, Alaska. Karen works with Defenders of Wildlife and is trying to stop the aerial slaughter of hundreds of wolves. Karen also tells the heartbreaking story of the murder of the alpha female of the Toklat wolf family in Denali. mp3, 15:10 mins....
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 12:36pm PST
Things are going from bad to worse? - It has gotten worse, folks! The neo-cons are aware that Americans are un-informed (by corporate design) and domicile (courtesy of ESPN). Americans will not leave the couch and a good game on TV to stand out on the street to protest anything nowadays. So the onslaught continues. Congress is making haste at taking away rights that have been built up through decades of struggle....
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 10:34am PST
Water For People Celebrates World Water Day oday, Water For People (WFP), an international humanitarian organization, celebrates World Water Day (WWD) with its volunteers and supporters throughout the North American water industry. Many public utilities and companies across the United States and Canada will be participating in educational awareness programs such as guided tours of water and wastewater treatment plants, classroom discussions and presentations to kindergarten through 12th grade students....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 11:01am PST
BTL:Failure of Bush Administration's Clear Skies Initiative Activates... ...Regulations to Weaken Environmental Enforcement ~ Interview with John Walke, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's clean air program, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 5:51am PST
Green Bridge Base Camp Two! 
Following the closure order issued by the Forest Service- the campaign to stop the massive Biscuit logging project has established a new base camp just below the closure line on BLM land along the Illinois River. The directions are the same- take Highway 199 from Grants Pass about 25 miles west- past Selma but not quite to Kerby- and take a right onto Eight Dollar Road- go a mile or so and turn left onto a dirt pullout and there our wonderful encampment awaits! If you go all the way to the cl...
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 11:08am PST
Women warriors at the bridge to paradise Z posted this email Monday to an international listserv of indymedia women. The story was highlighted on the US Indymedia site as well as several local Indymedia sites....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 11:12pm PST
Battle for The Arctic Refuge is Just Beginning Following is a release from Alaska Wilderness League, Alaska Coalition, Audubon, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, Friends of the Earth, League of Conservation Voters, National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, US Public Interest Research Group and The Wilderness Society...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 2:51pm PST
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