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textRally in Sacramento on October 25 for a Clean Klamath! by Dan Bacher
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
calendarCaravan/Prague by
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
calendarFilm: An Inconvenient Truth by Clare Cordero
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
textShuttleworth should sell "open energy technology" plan to Branson by Green Clippings
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
textRally in Sacramento for a Clean Klamath on October 25 by Dan Bacher
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
textNew Sightings of Endangered California Clapper Rail on Gallinas Creek by brightpathvideo.com
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
calendarThe Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse by Heather Young
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
textFERC Threatens Plan to Remove Klamath Dams by Dan Bacher
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
textE.coli Outbreak Exposes Serious Flaw In Food Safety Guidelines From The USD by Robert Greene
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
imageCalifornia Certified Organic Farmers Statement Regarding Spinach
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by amanda
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
textop-ed on the spinach incident from Center for Food Safety by via Joe Mendelson
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
textRoyal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial by Guardian Unlimited - David Adanm
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
textOCA Statement on Nationwide Outbreak of E-Coli Poisoning from Bagged Spinach by Organic Consumers Association
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
textOrganic Bytes: E.Coli, Nanotech, Product Plunder, & More... by via Organic Consumers Association
* 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
calendarThe Bay Ecosystem: 1st FALL TALK of Nature in the City by
at Counterpulse which is located at 1310 Mission Street @ 9th Street . civic center BART station is 2 blocks away ....
Event Date: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 11:12am PDT
calendar"No Quarry On The Coast" in Bodega by Christopher
Bodega Bay, Just North of the Tides Texaco on Coast Hwy One In front of the proposed "Harbor View" Subdivision Downtown Bodega Bay, can't miss us...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 30, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 6:34pm PDT
textE.COLI / SPINACH ISSUE CONTINUES AS FDA LOOKS FOR THE SOURCE by via Western Growers Association
The spinach and E.coli issue continues to dominate the news as Food and Drug Administration investigators try to pinpoint the source. On the FDA advisory to consumers about eating fresh spinach either in bulk or bagged form, retailers pulled the product from their shelves and shippers stopped sending the product to market....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 4:07pm PDT
imageBuffalo Field Campaign update from the field, 9/21/06
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by BFC Repost
Our thoughts are with the bull buffalo that were imprisoned in the Duck Creek capture facility last night, after having been captured at 1:50 yesterday afternoon. As I write, frozen rain is falling on the West Yellowstone area, and buffalo are on their way to slaughter....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 1:40pm PDT
textTOMORROW: 9/21 'Green Collar Jobs' Solutions Salon by via Ella Baker Center
Thursday, September 21 6 - 7pm: Reception and light food (please bring your own cup and utensils, if you can) 7 - 9pm: Discussion WHERE: Laney College Theatre...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2006 7:26pm PDT
textDumb as We Wanna Be - THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN; by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - The New York Times
Reposted in a new topic and region with additional articles. - Friedman: Fuel Blunder - We’d rather power anti-Americans with our energy purchases than promote antipoverty. - Only the Rich Survive and More...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2006 4:59pm PDT
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