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New biodiesel station opens in Santa Cruz
A new biodiesel station will have a grand opening in Santa Cruz on Saturday, April 21 from 12 noon to 6 p.m. at the corner of Soquel Avenue and Ocean Street....
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:47am PDT
Alameda: Act Now On Climate Rally
The corner of Oak and Central Avenunes
Alameda, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:05pm PDT
Emeryville: Submerged Shopping Center Day of Action
Location:
Powell Street at Christie Avenue, Emeryville, near I-80
Directions:
Here is a link to directions to the general shopping area -- http://www.baystreetemeryville.com/info/directions.cfm which includes public transportation options. For those who would like to carpool, we will meet at 11:15 at FCCB's parking lot, 2345 Channing Street (at Dana)....
Event Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:01pm PDT
Berkeley: Bike Power(ed) Rally
598 University Ave.
Berkeley, CA
From Berkeley by bike, take Bancroft all the way to Aquatic Park and cross the bike/ped bridge to the Deli. By car take University all the way West-- cross the highway and turn left on Frontage Rd. Deli is first right. From Emeryville/ Oakland by bike, take the Multi-use path North to the Deli. By car take Frontage Rd North to University. Deli is on the corner. Please ride your bike to the event if at all possible....
Event Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:59pm PDT
Step It Up 2007 "Stop Global Warming" Tiburon- Speakers, Car Display & Staging of the Rising Sea Level
Richardson Bay Audubon Center
376 Greenwood Beach Road
Tiburon...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:56pm PDT
SF: Distribution of 1,000 donated compact florescent light bulbs and energy-saving info
1095 Market Street, Suite 511
San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:52pm PDT
Step It Up 2007 SF: Lighten Up Your Ride! Expo and Rally
Sports Basement Presidio (Across from Crissy Field)
610 Mason Street in the Presidio District
San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:50pm PDT
Step It Up 2007 Berkeley- Town Hall Meeting on Solutions to the Global Warming Crisis
Berkeley City College Auditorium
2050 Center Street (between Shattuck & Milvia)
Berkeley...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:30am PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:48pm PDT
Eric McDavid's Motions Hearing
Hearing on the pre-trial motions for Eric McDavid
Monday, April 16
10:00 am
Federal Courthouse in Sacramento
501 I Street - 15th floor, courtroom number 3...
Event Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:18pm PDT
5th Annual BALLE Conference!
Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley...
Event Date: Thu, May 31, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 5:35pm 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
Uganda forest protest turns deadly
Four people have been killed in the Ugandan capital Kampala during protests against a government move to allow an Indian-owned company to grow sugar cane in a protected forest....
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 5:29pm PDT
Benefit for Briana Legal Defense Fund
Coastline Brewery
120 Union St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 3:47pm PDT
UC Berkeley Releases Missing Section Of BP Proposal Under Pressure From Student Campaign
In response to a formal request from the student campaign Stop
BP-Berkeley, on April 5, 2007, the office of the UC Berkeley Vice
Chancellor for Research released the appendices to the proposal for the
$500 million research deal that is currently under negotiation with oil
giant BP Amoco PLC. Previously, the university had released an abridged
version of the proposal, hiding the fact that 115 pages of appendices had
been omitted. University officials have claimed that they are acting
"i...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 2:59pm PDT
Oak Tree sitter arrested again
Running Wolf Tree-Sit Interrupted by Arrest
By Richard Brenneman (04-10-07)
Tree-sitter and one-time Berkeley mayoral candidate Zachary Running Wolf headed back to jail Friday, busted yet again by UC Berkeley police.
According to the campus police Daily Activity Bulletin, the 44-year-old activist was arrested at 9:57 a.m. and jailed on three outstanding traffic warrants, two from Berkeley police and one from campus police....
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 11:56am PDT
Arctic Ice 50% as thick as 1960
A British submarine just back from a cruise under
the North Pole measured the ice. "They said there
is now evidence that the polar ice cap could
disappear in as little as 13 years if global warming
continues at its current pace."...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 11:38am PDT
Major City Council Victory on Front Yard Garden Ordinance
The following is a report from Kim Glazzard, Organic Sacramento, on the successful campaign
to strike down the ordinance banning front yard gardens....
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 10:18am PDT
Trans Bay Cable LLC doles out $22 million plus to SFPUC and still meets stalling
Only is San Francisco would some entity as dumb as the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission under the very inept, arrogant, and misinformed General Manager Susan Leal connive to receive over $20 million from the Tran Bay Cable LLC and stab them in the back. Joining this Berber Woman is Sophie Maxwell another corrupt District 10 Supervisor. The SF Port Authority stands to make over $5 million- cash strapped and lack fundings - the SF Port Authority also decided to play second fiddle. CAI...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 5:53am PDT
Help Save the Delta Smelt!
Next week the California Fish and Game Commission will consider a petition to change the state listing of the delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) from threatened to endangered species status. The delta smelt historically was one of the most common fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary....
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 10:48pm PDT