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textOrganic Sacramento Action Alert: Oppose the "Monsanto Law," SB1056 by Dan Bacher
Please show up at the hearing for SB 1056 tomorrow in Sacramento. If you can't, please email a letter to your Legislator opposing this anti-democratic legislation that makes it illegal for citizens to pass voter initiatives to protect themselves from Genetically Engineered crops in their local cities or counties....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 2:01pm PDT
textBillionaire Buffet Gives to Charity while His Dams Kill Salmon by Dan Bacher
While Billionaire Warren Buffet says he intends to work with the Gates Foundation to donate billions of dollars to charity, one of his subsidiaries owns dams on the Klamath River that are killing salmon....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 3:40pm PDT
textToxic soil dumped by Carroll Street in the Bayview Hunters Point by Francisco Da Costa
This is not the first time we have to report to the SF Health Department and the Department of Toxics and Substances Control (DTSC) that some one is dumping toxic soil on land in the Bayview Hunters Point. On Carroll Street there is this parking lot used as a over flow when the parking lots linked to Candlestick are full. Innocent folks park and near by is the worse type of toxic soil and no one informs them of this hazardous material....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 1:33pm PDT
imageWater Quality Agency Says No To "Second Serving" of Old Growth Logging in Elk River
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by Save Ancient Forests
Due to concerns that this Old Growth Redwood logging plan will harm Elk River, the Water Quality Agency is objecting to it....
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 10:20am PDT
textBike lanes on Illinois Street in an Industrial Area by Francisco Da Costa
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Sophie Maxwell have no consensus from the public at large to decide what is best for folks that live and work on Illinois Street. Sophie Maxwell will go with the flow because she is not educated on issues. The Board of Supervisors may think they voted right but as any sensible person knows the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) or Study on any important project is a must. While bike lanes may benefit some in other areas - it adversely impacts those in a industrial area. ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 7:54am PDT
textWater Board Extends Ag Waivers For Five Years by Dan Bacher
Every reporter that went to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board seemed to have a different idea of what actually happened. Here's my take on the meeting - the board approved the agricultural waivers, although it included a bit more accountability in the waiver process. However, the Delta food chain is in crisis, farmworkers living in areas with contaminated water are getting sick and dying of cancer, the Central Valley rivers are less healthy than they were three years ago...
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 12:53pm PDT
textSan Rafael Demands Full EIR on Soccer Site by brightpathvideo
Today The City requested a full environmental impact report on the proposed Shekou soccer complex in San Rafael near endangered species habitat....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 7:06pm PDT
imageSalmon River Timber Sale Loses in 9th Circuit Court: Time to Gear Up!
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by Salmon
June 23, 2006: The Knob Timber Sale lost on all counts in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Knob is one of three old growth timber sales (along with the already cut Glassups sale and currently in court Meteor sale) making up a “mega-sale” on the wild and scenic Salmon River of Siskiyou County, CA. After years in court, the Knob sale will soon be auctioned and slated for cut there after. Some of the last intact oldgrowth forest in the United States can be found in these public-land timber sale...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 5:36pm PDT
calendarRichmond: Building Healthy Communities Through Food: A Community Workshop by Heather Fenney
EcoVillage Farm Learning Center 21 Laurel Lane, Richmond, CA 94803. For directions: http://www.ecovillagefarm.org/directions.htm...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 9:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 4:18pm PDT
textGOOD ENERGY IN STINSON BEACH by Sandy LeonVest
The Stinson Beach Solar Committee (SBSC) has a vision...to create a sustainable, energy-independent community, to educate the community regarding that process and to incorporate the use of solar power whenever and wherever it is possible. Toward those intentions members of the SBSC have met and discussed - and are currently researching - the concept of becoming energy-independent!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 2:00pm PDT
imageWe move sun on SunMt — cooling Big Mama
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by Elfie & Maia Ballis/SunMt
We move sun on SunMt — cooling Big Mama. 3 minute video...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 9:16am PDT
calendarRichmond: Sources of Pollution & Chemical Exposure: Env Justice by Jessica Tovar
St. Mark's Church - Gymnasium 159 Harbour Way, Richmond 94801...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 24, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 1:23pm PDT
textSpare the air means free public transportation Today by deanosor
All day today, Thursday, between 4am + 12 Midnight BART and all the public transportation porviders in the Bay Area are allowing their riders to ride for Free....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 12:09am PDT
textStop Industrial Agriculture from Poisoning our Water! Attend Water Board hearing 6/22 by DB, FWD from CA for Pesticide Reform
Come to the Water Board hearing this Thursday in Rancho Cordova (near Sacramento) and tell them not to exempt agriculture from pollution control requirements for another five years! When: Thursday, June 22 at 9:00 am Where: Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board 11020 Sun Center Drive #200 Rancho Cordova, California 95670...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 6:23pm PDT
textGet the Lead Out by Assemblywoman Wilma Chan
Legislation pending in Sacramento to cut the amount of lead children are exposed to in plumbing is facing a tough fight as industry lines up to kill it....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 4:35pm PDT
textPress Release: Allied Groups Demand End to Unregulated Agricultural Pollution by Dan Bacher
Here's the press release for the groups going to Thursday's meeting of the Central Valley Regional Water Control Board, 11020 Sun Center Drive, Suite 200, Rancho Cordova, CA. 95670-6114, beginning at 9:30 am. Opponents of the agricultural waiver will gather near the entrance to the hearing room at 8 to 8:30 am....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 4:35pm PDT
textCRITICAL MASS IN HAYWARD CA! by Hayward B.I.K.E.
this is an alert of the critical mass hosted in hayward, all information is included below...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 11:23am PDT
imageCapay Valley Juneteenth 2006 ~ Congressional Legislation Supports Black Farmers
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by Khubaka Michael Harris
Capay Valley Juneteenth 2006 celebrates our United States of America, 230 year experiment to “create a more perfect union.” We embrace a concept called Democracy, Juneteenth is a reminder to all how far we the son's and daughter's of Africa have come, "Our Journey Towards Freedom," is on full display in Guinda, Capay Valley, California....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 6:00pm PDT
audioFRSC: Peacetalks: Moratorium on GE crops in Santa Cruz County (audio/mpeg 20.7MB) by George Cadman
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Arty Mangan from the Santa Cruz County Genetic Engineering Subcommittee about the recent unanimous vote of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to accept the Subcommittee recommendation of a Precautionary Moratorium on the planting and production of GE crops in Santa Cruz County....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 2:00pm PDT
audioFRSC: Peacetalks, Green Scare Interview with Marco Rossi (audio/mpeg 26.2MB) by George Cadman
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Marco Rossi of the Olympia Civil Liberties Resource about the "Green Scare" and the government crackdown on the ELF and ALF. The Olympia Civil Liberties Resource is an organization working to defend the civil liberties of all citizens, particularly activists exercising their constitutional rights....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 1:08pm PDT
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