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textHigh-Level Climate Summit to Launch Action Agenda by Zach Conti
World leaders, including Pope Francis, UN General Secretary António Guterres and the IMF's Kristalina Georgieva, gather for a high-level climate summit hosted by the Netherlands through Tuesday....
Posted: Mon, Jan 25, 2021 6:14am PST
calendar“Vigneto: Yes or No?”: Endangered San Pedro River and Q&A w/ Filmmaker Dina Kagan
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by Center for Biological Diversity
Online screening & panel discussion...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2021 4:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 24, 2021 11:44am PST
calendarClimate Crisis: Digital Rally to Build Back Fossil Free w/ Indigenous Frontline Leaders
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by Indigenous Environmental Network & partners
Virtual Rally...
Event Date: Tue, Jan 26, 2021 5:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Jan 23, 2021 12:49pm PST
calendarIt's Our Time: Protect Our Communities and the Environment Town Hall w/ Sierra Club
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by Sierra Club
Online event...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2021 4:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 22, 2021 12:26pm PST
calendarElizabeth Kolbert & Mark Hertsgaard: Under a White Sky
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by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
Online webinar...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2021 5:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 22, 2021 9:16am PST
calendar'Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure' MCD Virtual Event
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by Museum of Craft and Design
Museum of Craft and Design 2569 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2021 10:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 22, 2021 8:38am PST
calendarEV 201: Finding the EV for Your Lifestyle by City of Sunnyvale
Free webinar, register below....
Event Date: Sat, Feb 20, 2021 11:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2021 10:20am PST
calendarCarbon Neutral Portfolio: From Vision to Strategy by City of Sunnvale
Free webinar....
Event Date: Sat, Jan 30, 2021 10:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2021 10:18am PST
textFriday Deadline: Defend Oakland's Pesticide Ban! by Isis Feral
The City of Oakland is preparing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that threatens to roll back a local law that restricts pesticide use on public lands. The herbicides glyphosate, triclopyr, and imazapyr would be exempted for use in the Oakland hills, as part of a plan to remove large numbers of trees. Public comments on the Draft EIR are DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021 AT 5PM...
Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2021 1:19am PST
textUC Places Initial Fencing Around People's Park, More to Come by Anonymous Park Defender
January 19th, the day before Biden's inauguration in DC, the University of California at Berkeley has placed the initial fencing on People's Park. "Work is coming", said Kyle Gibson, the director of communications for UCB Capital Strategies (quoted speaking to Berkeleyside)....
Posted: Tue, Jan 19, 2021 8:41pm PST
calendarClimate Emergency: Mass Virtual Town Hall w/ Eco Change Makers from Across USA
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by Environment America & 26 partners
Online via Zoom or livestream...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 13, 2021 1:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 12, 2021 11:01pm PST
imageNewsom's 2021 Budget Doesn't Address Fossil-Fueled Public Health & Climate Crises
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by Dan Bacher
The response to the budget by environmental, climate and environmental justice groups was mixed. The Sierra Club praised the funding of incentives to replace fossil fuel vehicles with electric vehicles, while the Last Chance Coalition, a coalition of more than 750 public health, environmental justice, climate, and labor organizations, said the budget fails to directly address the extraction and production of fossil fuels in California after a year during which the state’s oil and gas regulato...
Posted: Sat, Jan 9, 2021 4:12pm PST
imageGavin Newsom's New Year's Gift: 14 new fracking permits, delayed public health regulations
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by Dan Bacher
California Gavin Newsom has come under fire from environmentalists and the public over the fracking and other oil drilling permits that CalGEM issued in 2020 for Aera Energy and other oil companies....
Posted: Sat, Jan 9, 2021 3:59pm PST
imageEcosystem Disaster: For third year in a row, zero Delta Smelt found in CDFW Fall Trawl Survey
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by Dan Bacher
Between 1967 and 2020, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Fall Midwater Trawl (FMWT) abundance indices (combined September, October, November and December surveys) for striped bass, Delta smelt, longfin smelt, American shad, splittail and threadfin shad have declined by 99.7, 100, 99.96, 67.9, 100, and 95 percent, respectively, according to Bill Jennings, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA)....
Posted: Sat, Jan 9, 2021 3:45pm PST
calendarWe Throw It All Away: Food Waste & Loss and Changing to Responsible Practices
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by EARTHDAY.org
Online event via Zoom or direct livestream...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2021 9:00am PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 7, 2021 8:05am PST
calendarArctic is Not For Sale! Day of Solidarity to Protect Arctic Refuge & Indigenous Cultures
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by Defend the Sacred Alaska
Virtual action on social media...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2021 7:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 4, 2021 3:34pm PST
calendarS.F. - The Path Towards a Just Transition and Clean Economy by Unitarian Universalists Forum
Zoom meeting of the Unitarian Universalists of S.F. Forum...
Event Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2021 1:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 24, 2020 6:44pm PST
textMuch-Needed Federal Protection for America’s Beloved Monarch Butterfly Warranted, but Precluded by The Xerces Society
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agrees that monarchs are threatened with extinction, but does not yet provide the protection that monarchs need to recover....
Posted: Tue, Dec 22, 2020 1:26pm PST
imageMonarch Butterflies Put on Waiting List for Endangered Species Act Protection
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by Center for Biological Diversity
WASHINGTON, December 15, 2020 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that protection for monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act is warranted but precluded. This puts the imperiled butterfly on a waiting list for listing but confers no protection in the meantime....
Posted: Tue, Dec 22, 2020 1:18pm PST
imageCorruption Galore! SF Hunters Point TI Radioactive Cover-up for Profits with Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai
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by Labor Video Project
Dr. Ahimsa Porter Sumchai of the Hunters Point Community Biomonitoring Program talks about the decades long struggle to protect the community and workers from the contaminated radioactive dump site. She also discusses the continuing corruption and cover-up of government officials in San Francisco, the State of California and the US government....
Posted: Sat, Dec 19, 2020 9:59am PST
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