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[Sustain] Crucial Audio: New, Destructive, Global Investors' Agricultural Land Grabs
by Eric Brooks 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

Groundbreaking Audio: Global investors who tapped out collapsed real estate bubble, switching to pumping global agriculture bubble. Though it highlights Africa, the same destructive grab is happening all over the world. Not detailed; the vast increase in CO2 the boom is causing, especially via biofuels. If not stopped, it will be the final straw to break the back of Earth's climate, biosphere, and human civilization. To listen go to: http://www.againstthegrain.org/program/447/id/252056/wed-6-22-11-great-afri…

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[Sustain] Need Sig Gatherers To Stop Parkmerced Project! Each Saturday
by Eric Brooks 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Need Sig Gatherers To Stop Parkmerced Project! Hey all, this one's important. If you can, do both Terry Baum and this petition at the same time. See below. Eric B -------- Original Message -------- Subject: We need volunteer power this month! Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:34:12 -0700 From: Rebecca Reiner/SF Tenants Union <volunteer(a)sftu.org> To: <volunteer(a)sftu.org> CC: <TED(a)SFTU.ORG> Dear Tenant Union Volunteers, We REALLY need your help this month!! The Committee to Stop the Mass Demolitions of Housing, a collective of housing rights organizations in SF, needs your help to collect 1,500 signatures for a petition to stop the demolition of homes. We need to stop the demolition of 1,500 rent controlled units at Parkmerced and to do that we are doing a referendum in which the voters will get the chance to repeal the Board of Supervisors' decision to demolish sound housing. In order to put this referendum before the voters, we need to collect 22,000 signatures before July 8^th . We are getting some help through paid signature gathering but we will need to collect at least 5,000 signatures through volunteers! We need your help in collecting these signatures. Please join us for one or all of the three Saturday mobilizations that we will be holding. The first one is this Saturday June 18^th . Come pick up your petitions, we will provide you with a brief training on the best way to get signatures and we will send you out in pairs to the best places to collect signatures. This is the only way we will be able to stop the demolition of theses 1,500 units. Please come out and bring a friend! No experience or prior knowledge needed. You will be trained! COME JOIN US!! PLEASE RSVP to this email. Saturday June 18- Time: 10am-noon: pick up petitions Place: Tenants Union 558 Capp @20th Saturday June 25 Time: 10am-noon: pick up petitions Place: Tenants Union 558 Capp @20th Saturday July 2 Time: 10am-noon: pick up petitions Place: Tenants Union 558 Capp @20th Thank you so much. Your continued volunteer work enables us to preserve affordable housing in San Francisco. Without your help, we could not do all the work we do! Thank you for joining us. Sincerely, Rebecca and Ted Rebecca Reiner Volunteer Coordinator, San Francisco Tenants Union 558 Capp St. San Francisco, CA 94110 415-282-6543 /www.sftu.org <http://www.sftu.org/>/ JOIN US ON FACEBOOK! <http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-Tenants-Union/111423698903128> Description: Description: logo small

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[Sustain] VERY Time Sensitive - Need SFGP OK To Oppose SF Bay Desalination Project
by Eric Brooks 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

Hi all, The SF Public Utilities Commission, in a surprise move, recently fast tracked an action item for its meeting this coming Tuesday to approve a $200,000 appropriation for the SFPUC to take part in a San Francisco Bay desalination project with other Bay Area counties. Desalination is a really bad environmental process which uses huge amounts of energy to run salt water through reverse osmosis filters in order to produce drinking water. Besides using energy it also kills massive amounts of marine life, and produces a highly toxic high salt brine that then must be either disposed of (potentially contaminating ground water) or returned to open waters (badly contaminating estuaries, bays and oceans). (To learn more about the harms caused by desalination go to: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/reports/desalination-an-ocean-of-problems/ ) I will be at the SFPUC hearing and need two approvals from the SFGP: 1) To oppose San Francisco's involvement in the desalination project. 2) To sign SFGP on to the attached letter that Baykeeper has drafted to present to the SFPUC before its meeting Tuesday. CC members please review and let me know by tomorrow if you can, if I can tell Baykeeper we are on board to sign the letter. peace Eric B

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[Sustain] Short Notice! Mayoral Forum - Marti, Welch, C.P.A.
by Eric Brooks 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-guardian-forum-issu… SF Community Congress's Blog <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/> Just another WordPress.com site Skip to content <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-guardian-forum-issu…> * Home <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/> * About <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/about/> * Action Agenda <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/action-agenda/> * Economic Development <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/economic-development/> * Health and Human Services <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/health-and-human-services/> * Housing and Tenants' Rights <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/housing-and-tenants-rights/> * Public Transit <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/public-transit/> ? The Guardian Forum: Issues for the next mayor <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-guardian-forum-issu…> The Guardian Forum: Issues for the next mayor Posted on June 7, 2011 <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/the-guardian-forum-issu…> by sfcommunitycongress <http://sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com/author/sfcommunitycongress/> Announcing a series of panel discussions and participatory debates framing the progressive issues for the mayor's race and beyond *Issue One: Economy, Jobs and the Progressive Agenda* * Calvin Welch, Council of Community Housing Organizations * Fernando Marti, Community planner; Community Congress 2010 * Lenny Goldberg, economist and founder, California Tax Reform Association * Shaw San Liu, Chinese Progressive Association June 9th . 6 pm -- 8 pm University of San Francisco Lone Mountain Campus, Room LM 100 Turk & Balboa, Accessible on the 31 Balboa . Mobility Assistance Available

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[Sustain] New Spike In GHG Emissions Puts Earth On Brink Of Uncontrollable Climate Disaster
by Eric Brooks 30 May '11

30 May '11

Unexpected New Spike In Greenhouse Gas Emissions Puts Earth On Brink Of Uncontrollable Climate Disaster http://www.thejournal.ie/iea-estimates-make-2010-carbon-emissions-the-highe… IEA estimates make 2010 carbon emissions 'the highest in history' EARTH'S CARBON EMISSIONS for 2010 were the highest they have ever been, according to new international estimates -- potentially setting off a chain of global warming that cannot be stopped. Earth's emissions of carbon dioxide rose to 30.6 billion tonnes last year, according to unpublished estimates by the International Energy Agency <http://www.iea.org/> (IEA) which are published in today's Guardian. That amount is up from 29 billion tonnes last year -- despite the global economic downturn and action by the world's governments, both of which were expected to contribute to a more modest rise than the 1.6 gigatonne increase actually estimated. The Guardian suggests that the scale of the increase may now make it almost impossible to avoid the 2°C increase in temperatures which scientists believe could be the tipping point for a spiral of continual warming that might never be broken. "It is becoming extremely challenging to remain below 2 degrees. The prospect is getting bleaker. That is what the numbers say," the IEA's chief economist Fatih Birol told the paper. Other economists have suggested that the current rate of growth in emissions means the average temperatures on Earth could increase by more than 4°C by 2100 -- an increase that would cause polar icecaps to melt significantly. A melt of that scale would create millions of 'climate refugees' who would be forced to abandon their homes amid the rising sea levels. The first such refugees were forced to leave the Pacific island of Tuvalu in 2007 <http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,505819,00.html>. The level of global carbon emissions had actually fallen by 0.3 gigatonnes between 2008 and 2009, a drop attributed to the economic slowdown. While the 2010 emissions were expected to rise, the scale of the increase is wholly unanticipated. ###

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[Sustain] Urgent: Sign To Stop Destruction Of Neighborhood & Demolition Of Rent 1538 Controlled Apts.
by Eric Brooks 23 May '11

23 May '11

Supervisors Will Vote Tomorrow! Sign Petition To Stop Unsustainable Destruction Of The Beautiful Parkmerced Neighborhood & The Destruction Of 1538 Rent Controlled Garden Apartments! This project will also have 1 to 1 parking and claims to be transit oriented while adding 6,000 parking spaces and not ensuring robust transit development and regional transit connections. To sign go to: http://www.change.org/petitions/protect-and-preserve-parkmerced-as-essentia…

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[Sustain] Urgent: Sign To Stop Destruction Of Neighborhood & Demolition Of Rent 1538 Controlled Apts.
by Eric Brooks 23 May '11

23 May '11

Supervisors Will Vote Tomorrow! Sign Petition To Stop Unsustainable Destruction Of The Beautiful Parkmerced Neighborhood & The Destruction Of 1538 Rent Controlled Garden Apartments! This project will also have 1 to 1 parking and claims to be transit oriented while adding 6,000 parking spaces and not ensuring robust transit development and regional transit connections. To sign go to: http://www.change.org/petitions/protect-and-preserve-parkmerced-as-essentia…

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[Sustain] Fwd: Rec/Park Pres. Mark Buell added to Commonwealth Club panel on future of Golden Gate Park
by Eric Brooks 07 May '11

07 May '11

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Alert! RPC Pres. Mark Buell added to Commonwealth Club panel on future of Golden Gate Park Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:17:40 -0700 From: SF Ocean Edge <sfoceanedge(a)earthlink.net> To: <sfoceanedge(a)earthlink.net> *TO ALL SUPPORTERS OF GOLDEN GATE PARK* *CHANGE TO COMMONWEALTH CLUB PROGRAM ON GOLDEN GATE PARK* *Rec and Park Commission President Mark Buell added to panel* The Commonwealth Club has added Mark Buell, President of the Recreation and Park Commission, to our panel on “Golden Gate Park Under Siege.” We welcome Mr. Buell’s input, and look forward to this discussion. Please note that questions will be accepted from the audience, and we encourage all people concerned about the future of Golden Gate Park to attend. We advise pre-registration for this May 11^th , 2011 event. *The Commonwealth Club of California presents: *** ** */GOLDEN GATE PARK UNDER SEIGE?/* Treasured by millions of people from all over the world, Golden Gate Park’s meadows, forests, and lakes have served as a refuge from the pressures of urban life for both people and wildlife for over 140 years. Yet throughout its history, the park continues to attract those who view it as free land available for their favorite projects. In addition, with the current short-term budget crises, some view the park as a source of revenue rather than a precious civic asset to be protected. ** *JOIN OUR PANEL TO LEARN ABOUT CURRENT CONSTRUCTION PLANS FOR GOLDEN GATE PARK* ** Jim Chappell, Interim Director-San Francisco Beautiful, Past Executive Director–SPUR; Moderator Mark Buell, President, SF Recreation and Park Commission Anthea Hartig Ph.D., President - Western Office National Trust for Historic Preservation Katherine Howard ASLA, Golden Gate Park Preservation Alliance, SF Ocean Edge Mike Lynes, Conservation Director/General Counsel - Environmental Matters, Golden Gate Audubon Society George Wooding, President, West of Twin Peaks Central Council, Columnist, /Westside Observer/ ** *Wednesday, May 11, 2011* 6:00 - 6:30 pm Networking Reception 6:30 - 7:30 pm Program Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, SF - Montgomery Metro Station Tickets: $20 standard, $8 members, $7 students (with valid ID) *Pre-Registration is Advised* Call 415-597-6705 or register online at www.commonwealthclub.org <http://www.commonwealthclub.org> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the SFBAY-SFGROUP-EXCOM list, send any message to: SFBAY-SFGROUP-EXCOM-signoff-request(a)LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp

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[Sustain] PRN Interview
by Don Eichelberger 06 May '11

06 May '11

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/community-currency/ Here is where you can hear me being interviewed on today's Carol Brouillet show, Community Currency, on Progressive Radio Network web radio, talking about nuclear power. Hope you find it enjoyable. Shut 'em down! Don

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[Sustain] Internet radio interview on shutting 'em down
by Don Eichelberger 03 May '11

03 May '11

I will be interviewed about shutting down nuclear power this Thursday, 2-3 P.M. Pacific time. Check it out: http://communitycurrency.org/node/139 Don

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