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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
imageHelp stop the Mexican wolf slaughter!
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by Wolf
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is destroying yet another family of Mexican gray wolves – even though the agency has identified the species as the most endangered mammal in North America. The male of the recently released Nantac Pack was just shot and killed, and the female is being hunted down right now. Both members of this pack were survivors of past predator control actions....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 12:46am PDT
textUSDA accepting comments on GE plum trees, the first temperate GE tree by GE trees bad
The US Department of Agriculture is accepting public comments between now and July 17, 2006 on a petition that would allow commercial growing and marketing of the first genetically engineered (GE) plum trees. If approved, this would remove all regulatory oversight of this GE variety, a virus-resistant plum tree known as the Honey Sweet Pox Potyvirus Resistant plum....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 2:01pm 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
image2006 Peace Wheel for Solar Vees Builder
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by Peter Ravenscroft
Montreal technical activist wins the 2006 international Peace Wheel for making solar vehicles reaL...
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 4:11am 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
calendarCRITICAL MASS IN HAYWARD by Gregg Horton
Hayward City Library (835 C Street) Directions From Hayward Bart: Get on to B Street and go east until you reach Watkins St. Turn Left On Watkins For One Block and The Library Will Be On Your Left....
Event Date: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 11:33am 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
calendarBerkeley: Rebuilding Green in New Orleans by
Berkeley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 1924 Cedar (at Bonita), Berkeley...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 10:04pm 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
calendarLearn to Cook Organic Seasonal Vegetables Fresh from the Garden! by Aaron
Tunitas Creek Ranch, 8 miles south of Half Moon Bay...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 12:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 2:19pm 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: South Central Farm Interview with Tezozomoc of South Central Farmers (audio/mpeg 10.1MB) by George Cadman
George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Tezozomoc, the elected representative of the South Central Farmers on Sunday, June 18th 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 1:33pm 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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