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Throwaway Christmas: Britain set to dispose of three million tons of waste
Britain will discard more waste this Christmas than ever before, with an estimated three million tons of rubbish - a tenth of the annual total - accumulated over the next few days....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:37pm PST
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 12/22/05
Last Thursday wild bison advocates gathered in Helena, Montana for a press conference, held right down the hall from the office of Governor Brian Schweitzer. Simultaneously, our national call-in day to the Governor was underway....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 7:01pm PST
Effect of dams on Rio Klamath's people & salmon
Details the cultural, physical and spiritual importance of salmon to the Klamath River's indigenous peoples and the needed restoration of their riparian habitat by removing outdated dams after 2006 FERC license expires....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 4:12pm PST
details of ELF informant arrest
One of the six people arrested this month on federal charges they were part of a sabotage campaign has agreed to testify against others charged in the case, according to court papers....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:06am PST
Million Solar Roofs: Update & Action Alert...
Each day, more energy falls to the earth from the sun's rays than the total amount of energy the planet's 5.9 billion inhabitants would consume in 27 years....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 9:52am PST
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency stalls Arc Ecology grant and tables agenda item
The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency listened to Espanola Jackson, Francisco Da Costa, Joe Blue, John Nauer, Angelo King and tabled the agenda item thereby stalling the grant that would have been given to Arc Ecology. Conflict of interest issues will be taken up by some Law Enforcement agency and the City Controller....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 10:04pm PST
Judge demands tree-sit video from defiant climber
Three-year-old case set to go to trial in June...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 9:54am PST
EPIC lawsuit judgment against PALCO SYP overturned on appeal
The 2003 judgment by Judge Golden invalidating the PALCO Sustained Yield Plan has been overturned by a three judge Appeals Court panel....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 10:35pm PST
Rising Temps and Hurricanes Break Records in 2005
by Michael T. Neuman
Email: mtneuman (at) juno.com...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 2:50pm PST
The Rape of the Bayview in San Francisco
The Rape of the Bayview Hunters Point by San Francisco Redevelopment Agency....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 4:16am PST
Cronies vie for huge salaries and grants tied to San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) is poised to give cronies huge salaries and grants for doing nothing much but tow the line of the very corrupt SFRA in the Bayview. One consultant will get $283,500 for the next 3 for doing outreach for the SFRA when the money could be spent better. Another, now gets $160,000 and will get $175,000 again for doing nothing. These scum bags must be investigated....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 3:48am PST
Secret Footage Focus of Monday Hearing in Treesit Lawsuit
The battle over hidden "head cam" footage from 2003 treesit extractions goes back to court Monday....
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2005 2:06pm PST
US Navy plans use of LFAS in Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Mediterranean Oceans
The US Navy is in the final stages of submitting public comments to the
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) pertaining to the use of Low Freqency
Sonar in the Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Oceans. The well
documented negative affects of this technology has been demonstrated in
the past in whale and dolphin beachings around the world, with some
washing up with visible damage to their ears (bleeding), disorientation,
often leading to death. Humans within...
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2005 3:23am PST
On Ecological Utopias
The total commercialization of the world has triumphed..A dynamic of growth withdrawal could be initiated through a few simple measures.. Internalizing the costs would drastically change our societies..The rediscovery of the local dimension is far more promising than universal democracy as a way to growth withdrawal....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 8:56am PST
San Francisco City Government Takes A Step Closer To Using Biodiesel:
I have been a biodiesel advocate for a number of years now. I would characterize myself as one of those who could not understand why more fleets, and why more government fleets in particular, were not switching to biodiesel blends. I generally attributed it to one of two things, price or institutional resistance to change. Price is still an issue in some markets, like Northern California, but has been eliminated, or at least reduced, as an issue in other markets. I have been working with the ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 6:58am PST
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 12/15/05
Often times we here at the BFC tend to focus on the harder side of life. It is news and unfortunately for all of us involved a fact of daily life....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 11:05pm PST
Danny McGowan, Denied Bail, audio (audio/mpeg 5.8MB)
on Democracy Now .Org ... today 12/15/05 ... great reporting on Daniel & Police State
file below is just about Danny's case...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 3:20pm PST
New York Activist Faces Life in Prison; Feds Accuse Him of Eco-Terrorism
Daniel McGowan was one of six environmental activists arrested last week in a series of coordinated raids across four states. He is accused of setting a pair of arsons in Oregon in 2001 and is being held without bail....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 9:44am PST
Judge fines environmental lawyer -Biodiesel Case
A Tuolumne County prosecutor has been fined $500 for filing what a judge called a "frivolous" motion in a civil case against the Sierra Railroad....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 6:19pm PST