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Judge's Ruling A Major Boost for Klamath Dam Removal Plan This ruling is great news for current efforts to remove 4 Klamath River dams to restore the salmon runs....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 11:54am PDT
7/28-30: Bicycle Film Festival Two-wheeled transportation will take over San Francisco as the Sixth Annual Bicycle Film Festival rolls into town. The Bicycle Film Festival (BFF), complete with complimentary valet bike parking provided by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, kicks off on September 28, 2006 with screenings September 29-30 at the The Victoria Theatre at 2961 16th St.. Near Mission St...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 9:38pm PDT
Fall lecture series at the Seymour Center will focus on global climate change UCSC's Marine Discovery center will host several lectures on various topics within the subject of climate change....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 5:30pm PDT
Hold Bayer Accountable for LL601 GE Contamination of Rice USDA to retroactively approve Bayer's illegal LL601 GE rice after contamination discovered. Write letter to hold Bayer Crop Science accountable for contaminating US food supply with GE rice (LL601), aka "Liberty Link" rice, resistant to Bayer's manufactured "Liberty" glufosinate herbicide brand....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 4:15pm PDT
Desalination and War Profiteering in the City of Santa Cruz The City of Santa Cruz has entered into an arrangement with a global engineering firm, Camp Dresser and Mckee, to build a trial desalination plant on the Westside of Santa Cruz. The company in question is a global engineering firm with contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan and which has an unsavory history of bribing public officials. Desalination has a very poor economic and environmental track record, but the city has nevertheless signed a multi-million dollar contract with this firm....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 12:24pm PDT
More Clapper Rail Sightings on Gallinas Creek Additional sightings of the endangered clapper rail on Gallinas Creek, San Rafael, near a proposed monster development, were filmed on Sept 26 2006...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 10:03am PDT
Rally in Sacramento on October 25 for a Clean Klamath! We need a big turnout in Sacramento at the State Water Resources Control Board meeting on October 25 to bring down the Klamath River Dams and clean up the river. Also below is an action alert to clean up toxic algae...
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 7:17am PDT
Caravan/Prague The Victoria Theatre
2961 16th St., near Mission St.
San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 6:34pm PDT
Film: An Inconvenient Truth Main Hall, Unitarian Universalist Church, 505 E Charleston, Palo Alto....
Event Date: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 2:14pm PDT
Shuttleworth should sell "open energy technology" plan to Branson Non-patentable shared "open energy technology" has the potential to have a profound impact on the reduction of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, in the same way that open source software has changed computers and the Internet....
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 11:49am PDT
Rally in Sacramento for a Clean Klamath on October 25 We need a big turnout in Sacramento at the State Water Resources Control Board meeting on October 25 to bring down the Klamath River Dams and clean up the river. Also below is an action alert to clean up toxic algae....
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 11:45am PDT
New Sightings of Endangered California Clapper Rail on Gallinas Creek California State Status: Endangered
United States Federal Status: Endangered
County endangered in: San Mateo/ Marin/ Alameda
Bioregion: Bay Area Delta
Threats to species:
* Habitat loss from construction of oil fields
* Non-native prdators
* Habitat alteration due to industral development
According to the California Academy of Sciences,
these are the three primary threats to the California
clapper rail. This information was retrieved through
an i...
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2006 11:09pm PDT
The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse At The Roxie Theater of New College, 3117 16th Street...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2006 7:59pm PDT
FERC Threatens Plan to Remove Klamath Dams The Yurok and Karuk tribes responded today to a FERC draft environmental impact statement that recommends only modest changes to current dam conditions....
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2006 5:20pm PDT
E.coli Outbreak Exposes Serious Flaw In Food Safety Guidelines From The USD The current recommended food safety guidelines by the USA are outdated and need to follow more progressive measure like accepting preliminary presumptive testing services like instant E.coli tests and instant Salmonella test...
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2006 8:10am PDT
California Certified Organic Farmers Statement Regarding Spinach 
E. coli and the Spinach Recall
September 18, 2006 - Food safety is a top priority at California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF), and our hearts go out to the individuals and families affected by the E. coli outbreak....
Posted: Sun, Sep 24, 2006 9:59pm PDT
op-ed on the spinach incident from Center for Food Safety Hi (indybay editor) -
attached is an op-ed on the spinach incident from our Legal Director Joe Mendelson, perhaps it will be useful. Certainly supporting local farmers makes sense; such an outbreak could only occur in an industrial system, which broadcasts food across a large population with disregard for the potential for an untraceable food safety problem. Also, a couple of facts:
>Some cases in the recent e-coli outbreak have been traced, by interviews with consumers who fell ill, ...
Posted: Sun, Sep 24, 2006 2:18pm PDT
Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change....
Posted: Sun, Sep 24, 2006 1:57pm PDT
OCA Statement on Nationwide Outbreak of E-Coli Poisoning from Bagged Spinach The most likely explanation for this outbreak is that 90% of the nation's bagged spinach comes from one region in California, Monterey County, where a combination of excess manure, tainted with a dangerous variety of E. coli, from factory style dairy farms adjacent to spinach and lettuce farms, and above average rainfall and flooding appears to have contaminated irrigation water with E. coli-tainted animal feces, resulting in spinach plants being contaminated with E. coli....
Posted: Sun, Sep 24, 2006 1:39pm PDT
Organic Bytes: E.Coli, Nanotech, Product Plunder, & More... * ALERT: E.COLI -- GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM
* ALERT: TINY TOXINS--NANO, NANO EVERYWHERE
* TIP OF THE WEEK: CONFUSED ABOUT WHICH ECO-LABLES YOU CAN TRUST?
* PRODUCT PLUNDER OF THE WEEK: THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENTS
* HEALTH TIDBIT OF THE WEEK: SWEETENED COFFEE CAN MAKE YOU FAT
* FAST FOOD CHAINS GOING ORGANIC
* WHO CARES WHERE YOUR FOOD COMES FROM?
* BEN AND JERRY'S GET EGGED
* BE AN OCA STATE NEWS SCOUT...
Posted: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 6:59pm PDT
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