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February 2005 :
February 28, 2005
February 24, 2005
- Action Alert: Stop the Sneak Attack on the Arctic Refuge!
In the next two weeks, oil industry allies in the House and Senate will try to use a sneaky backdoor maneuver to open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling. They know their drilling proposal is too controversial to ever get the 60 votes it needs to pass through the usual legislative channels. So instead, they're going to try to slip their unpopular drilling proposal into the must-pass federal budget bill. Submitted by the Wilderness Society
- Event: Special Bay Area Visit by Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner (3/1)
A 2004 Nobel Laureate, Dr. Maathai is the founder of the Green Belt Movement, and has challenged conventional wisdom and opened new avenues for citizen action. Co-sponsored by BAIDO
- Event: New Sacred Land Film Project Campaign Opposes Shasta Dam Plans
Native Land & Water in Jeopardy: Week of Benefits Unites Winnemem, Hopi & Environmental Leaders
The impact of California’s water and energy crises on Native American tribes remains an untold story. This week of events will expose the impact of both crises on two Native American tribes whose struggle to preserve their sacred lands heated up recently with the passage of Senator Feinstein’s Cal-Fed legislation and the weakening of environmental regulations by the Bush administration.
- Event: International Development Series (IDS) Panel: Zimbabwe (3/24)
With elections in Zimbabwe set for March 31, join this timely panel to learn about and discuss the current political, social, health and economic conditions in the country. Co-sponsored by BAIDO
- Volunteer Opportunity:
February 22, 2005
- Get Involved: Life-Changing Summer Programs and Vacations
Sign up for Summer Programs with Global Service Corps and see a country like you never will as a tourist. Live with welcoming families, work side-by-side with locals, and enjoy excursions into the countryside. Choose from projects in HIV/AIDS, sustainable agriculture, teaching English, and international health. Immerse yourself in a whole new culture. Make new worldwide friends. And have the experience of a lifetime!
- Action Alert: Polar Bears Threatened by global warming
Urge your Congressional Representatives to act. Submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity
February 17, 2005
- News Room: Pombo wants to open up California's fragile Farallon Islands to recreationists
Scientists fear even limited visits by public could harm colonies of birds and mammals. SF Chronicle.
- Press Release: PRBO opposes H.R. 298 (Adobe .pdf, ~100k)
PRBO Conservation Science, a non-partisan, scientific research organization, strongly opposes H.R. 298 and the opening of the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge- “California’s Galapagos”- to public access.
February 15, 2005
- Action Alert: Ask for Wilderness protection for the Coastal Plain of ANWR
Take a moment to ask your Senators and Representatives to co-sponsor this legislation.
- Event: Native Land & Water in Jeopardy: Week of Benefits Unites Winnemem, Hopi & Environmental Leaders
- These events mark the launch of a unique grassroots campaign that unites some of the state’s most effective environmental organizations with Native communities in an effort to stop the enlargement of Shasta Dam near Redding.
- Event: Climb Mount Shasta for BAWT
Bay Area Wilderness Training invites you to experience the thrill of and challenge of conquering 14,000-foot Mt. Shasta in Northern California, while raising money to help get youth outdoors.
February 10, 2005
- Action Alert: Deal Lets Factory Farms Pollute Air without Restriction
Allows factory farms to freely violate any and all clean air standards for the next two years...
February 9, 2005
- News Room: Oppose Sensenbrenner Immigration Bill (H.R. 418)
Measure needlessly suspends all environmental laws along all U.S. borders, endangering communities and natural resources
Submitted by the Center for Biological Diversity
February 3, 2005
- Earth Island Journal: Spring 2005 issue is now online
- Event: BAWT Crab Boil Benefit
Saturday, February 5th, Baker Beach, San Francisco, California
February 2, 2005
- Press Release: Toxic Warning: Dolphin Meat is Poisoning the Japanese People
The Japanese government provides no warning to its people that eating dolphin meat is a serious health hazard
- Action Alert: Defend White Mountains' Furnace Creek from ORV Abuse
Stop Forest Service and BLM plans for motorized 'wreck'reation in California's Furnace Creek--a unique, fragile desert riparian habitat.
February 1, 2005
- In the News: Activists Denounce Six Flags Marine World's hands-on dolphin encounter
The exhibit is a "circus act" and has nothing to do with educating the public. San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan.
- Action Alert: Old Growth Reserves in the Siskyou Being Rush Logged
The Forest Service is rushing to log thousands of acres of old-growth reserves affected by the Biscuit fire before a court can determine if the logging is illegal.
- In the News: EcoTalk Host Betsy Rosenberg talks to Drew Weiner, director of Reef Protection International
about the effects of the tsunami on the ecosystem. Aired on Air America on January 30th, archived now.
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