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The Ancient Redwoods: Witnesses to a Fading Republic 
The Ancient Redwoods are older by centuries than the American Republic itself. They are found only in the northwest coastal region of the nation. They have witnessed this country’s birth struggle, its awful Civil War, its rapacious expansion westward, and now, finally, its imperial hubris and rapid decline. By the time the Bush-Cheney Gang gets done ripping the country off (aided by complicit Democrats), the Republic will be a fading memory....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 5:56pm PDT
Forest Service and Bureau of Reclamation Endanger Winnemen Wintu Ceremonies (Update) Two U.S. government agencies, the Forest Service and Bureau of Reclamation, are endangering the right of the Winnemem Wintu (McCloud River) Tribe to conduct their "Balas Chonas" ceremony from July 8 through 11 at Lake Shasta....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 11:26am PDT
Bay Area Solar Energy Links review of support groups for solar energy, climate protection, clean air and food securtiy...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 1:14pm PDT
Santa Cruz Logging Restrictions Upheld California Supreme Court upholds Santa Cruz restrictions on logging...
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2006 5:41pm PDT
Delta in Crisis, but Water Board Extends Ag Waivers for Five Years 
Here's my final article on the ag waivers hearing, with some photos included. This version includes some data on pesticides and some quotes that weren't in the original article I wrote right after the event....
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2006 8:04am PDT
Maxxam Land Scam, 2,000 Acres To Lose Conservation Protection- Expected Next Week the rip-off continues...
Posted: Sat, Jul 1, 2006 11:35am PDT
Mendocino County Adopts Precautionary Principle On June 27, 2006, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors adopted
the County's first-ever environmental policy - the Mendocino County
Precautionary Principle Policy....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 6:42pm PDT
Bureau of Reclamation Limits Access to Winnemem Wintu Ceremonial Site (Revised Release) Here's a corrected media advisory. (The other release had the wrong dates listed at the top of the release).
The Coming of Age (Balas Chonas Winyupnus) Ceremony, set from July 8 through 11, 2006 on the McCloud River at Lake Shasta, will highlight the failure of the Bureau of Reclamation to protect the religious freedoms of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 2:58pm PDT
May Critical Mass in Santa Cruz and a Look Back 
The Santa Cruz Critical Mass Bike Ride on May 26th included riding on West Cliff, through the Beach Flats and past the guarded Boardwalk....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 12:36am PDT
SB1056 Update: GE Crops and Seeds On June 28th, 2006 the Assembly Agriculture voted unanimously in favor of SB1056, a bill that takes away local government authority over seeds. If this bill passes into law, it will override future restrictions on genetically engineered crops and seeds, as well as all other local regulation of seeds....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 4:23pm PDT
Sherwin-Williams: Covering Our Communities with Toxics 
Sherwin-Williams was given the 2006 “Bad Neighbor of the Year” award by ACORN because of the companies on-going assaults against the health of our communities....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 6:10pm PDT
Arana Gulch to be Paved? 
The serene isolation and beauty of Arana Gulch is threatened by two miles of Eight foot wide paved trails and a suspension bridge over hagemann gulch....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 6:03pm PDT
Bureau of Reclamation Limits Access to Winnemem Wintu Ceremonial Site The Coming of Age (Balas Chonas Winyupnu) Ceremony on the McCloud River at Lake Shasta will highlight the failure of the Bureau of Reclamation to protect the religious freedoms of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 1:52pm PDT
Organic Sacramento Action Alert: Oppose the "Monsanto Law," SB1056 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
Billionaire Buffet Gives to Charity while His Dams Kill Salmon 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
Toxic soil dumped by Carroll Street in the Bayview Hunters Point 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
Water Quality Agency Says No To "Second Serving" of Old Growth Logging in Elk River 
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
Bike lanes on Illinois Street in an Industrial Area 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
Water Board Extends Ag Waivers For Five Years 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
San Rafael Demands Full EIR on Soccer Site 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
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