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textIslais Creek Bridge by Marin Street will being the worst pollution and death. by Francisco Da Costa
The Islais Creek Bridge now being built by San Francisco Port Authority will contribute to pollution and death. Millions of vehicles will spew dangerous particulates that will adversely impact the Bayview area. The Bay is already polluted and with this new bridge more pollution will adversely impact the Bay. Mayor Gavin Newsom knows about this polluting bridge but will do nothing about it. The Bridge is being built over a Force Main and no one is speaking up. The Bridge design is poor and is ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 3:54pm PST
textGREEN ISSUES Website is Back Again!! by Cheryl Seal
After launching "Green Issues" a few months back, I was forced by technical difficulties with the site and other commitments (namely my main website, Cheryl Seal Reports) to let it ride for a while. Now the glitches have been worked out and I hope to be able to update the site on a weekly basis, if not more frequently...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 2:45pm PST
imageSaving the Bay of La Paz & Gulf of California
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by Rainbow Hawk
This is a brief (English y Espanol) summary of our groups efforts & progress towards saving the Bay of La Paz and Gulf of California, the most bio-diverse body of water on Earth....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 12:34am PST
textBush appointees censor scientists at government agencies by wsws (reposted)
Last month, James E. Hansen, a senior scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), accused appointees of the Bush administration in the agency’s public affairs department of attempting to prevent him from publicly discussing the role of fossil fuel emissions in climate change....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:23pm PST
textCommunity Policing in San Francisco by Francisco Da Costa
Community Policing is about Quality of Life issues and how best to deliver them to any given community. Of course the Law Enforcement element is a fraction of this keen delivery system. Local leaders, economics, the business community, civic and church leaders, community based organization, anyone that has anything to do with social deliveries all work to make good stuff happen. The seniors have a role, children have a role and of course youth have a role. In San Francisco the Mayor has put C...
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 1:57pm PST
textFloating lab tracks Sahara sandstorms' effect on ecosystem by guardian.co.uk
how dust and oceans interact...
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 6:59am PST
imageBUSH PROPOSES TO SELL 85,000 ACRES OF CALI PUBLIC FOREST, KLAMATH NF ALONE IS 50 MILES
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by Klamath Salmon Media Collaborative
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION PROPOSED TO SELL OFF 200,000 ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND: Mostly in Northern California.The Bush administration shocked Americans this week by proposing to sell of 200,000 acres of public lands to pay for rural schools in his budget. The Klamath National Forest would be the hardest hit in the national with about 50 square miles to be sold from the Klamath River...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 3:58pm PST
textYELLOWSTONE BUFFALO SLAUGHTER NEARS 800 by BFC Repost
GARDINER, MONTANA. On Friday, February 10, the National Park Service (NPS) captured 193 buffalo inside Yellowstone National Park and plans to slaughter them all, bringing the number captured in the last month to 865 and the number killed to 779. 86 calves were sent to the Corwin Springs quarantine facility earlier this year....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 1:35pm PST
textGlobal warming: passing the 'tipping point', Will Humanity Perish? by forestcouncil.org
trees...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 12:25pm PST
textClimate Change: A People's Choice by Jeff "Free" Luers (posted by friend
Below is the latest writing by Jeff Free Luers... for more information or to donate to Jeff's legal appeal, go to http://www.freefreenow.org...
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 11:05pm PST
textMayor Gavin Newsom slates huge areas for SF Redevelopment in the Southeast Sector by Francisco Da Costa
From Cesar Chavez Street, Highway 101, the San Francisco/San Mateo County line, the whole of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, to the San Francisco Bay all this has been declared a Project Area with the blessing of Mayor Gavin Newsom without any meaningful public input. The Project Area Committee representing 94124 has no clue about a Transportation Document, the Housing Element, nor about the making of a General Management Plan or really a Project Area. Ignorant Blacks continue to sellout the co...
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 7:40am PST
textBTL:Critics Concerned Over Possible White House Plan to Resume Dangerous... by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
...Plutonium Reprocessing. ~ Interview with Ed Lyman, senior staff scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 4:25am PST
text Global warming: passing the 'tipping point' by UK Independent (reposted)
Our special investigation reveals that critical rise in world temperatures is now unavoidable...
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:27pm PST
textSave Gallinas Creek, Petition Ready to Sign by brightpathvideo
Our Petition to save Gallinas Creek from a 3 acre indoor soccer field development is now ready for signatures at http://www.gallinascreek.org/petition.htm...
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 12:40pm PST
text Excavate the landfill ... and then let’s talk! by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D. via SF Bay VIew
“The Navy has yet to put forward a formal plan for cleaning up or removing the landfill. Navy officials have said they are considering creating a permanent cap and leaving the landfill in place. Any plan would require EPA approval, which is not likely in the immediate future. The EPA has not taken a position on the landfill,” says Michael Work, one of the project mangers for the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund cleanup....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 6:33am PST
textMaxxam Begins Final Liquidation of Once-Proud Pacific Lumber Company by Humboldt Watershed Council
Business plan right on target, say observers...
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 10:06pm PST
text Climate 'warmest for millennium' by BBC (reposted)
In the late 20th Century, the northern hemisphere experienced its most widespread warmth for 1,200 years, according to the journal Science....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 6:06pm PST
imageBuffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 02/09/06
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by BFC Repost
Over the weekend, we were blessed with the presence of BFC co-founder, Lakota elder Rosalie Little Thunder. She and her good friend Richard, a Crow tribal member, came to join us on the front lines in Gardiner where so many buffalo have recently been sent to slaughter by the National Park Service....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 1:31pm PST
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