Our fight against extreme fossil fuels and the threat of Canadian tar sands flooding into Bay Area refineries has been a long uphill battle, with much of it centered in the airless hearing rooms of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District … [Read more...]
Archives for 2016
Community Power over Electric Power, Apr 14
Come to the monthly meeting of the East Bay Clean Power Alliance to hear updates on Alameda County's Community Choice Energy program and on the campaign to make sure Alameda's Community Choice program promotes community control, and local renewable … [Read more...]
Sunflower Alliance General Assembly, April 10
Join us to learn about fossil fuel resistance and climate justice action in our region. We welcome your participation and your voice! Unfortunately our speaker for the April 10 meeting had to cancel. We hope to reschedule Azibuike "Azi" Akaba of … [Read more...]
Spare Our Air 2! Community Forum, May 18
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is in the process of revising the rules for the five Bay Area refineries, whose hazardous emissions are responsible for the higher risk of dying from heart disease and strokes in surrounding communities. … [Read more...]
Don’t Let the CPUC Put More Dirty Power Plants in Oxnard, April 7
Come and tell the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) not to cave in to industry pressure. The CPUC must adopt its own proposed decision to delay approval of yet another power plant in Oxnard until the state finishes its review, … [Read more...]
Put Your Feets on the Streets! April 9
Sometimes you've just got to take it to the streets, and this is one of them. Sunflower Alliance is sponsoring a canvassing day to put rent control and just cause for eviction on the Richmond ballot in November. Bring a friend, or partner up with … [Read more...]
Is Climate Change Protest Broken? April 22
How do activists actually create change, and how can we learn from past actions? On Earth Day 2016, join Micah White, co-founder of Occupy Wall Street, and Bay Area organizers for a conversation at the David Brower Center on the past and future of … [Read more...]
Green Film Festival
6th San Francisco Green Film Festival The Green Film Fest, April 14 – 20 at the Castro Theatre, the Roxie and other venues across San Francisco and Berkeley, features 70 internationally acclaimed, eco-focused films. Over 90 visiting filmmakers and … [Read more...]
Alameda Fracking Ban Hearing, May 2
On May 2nd, the Alameda County Planning Commission—and the public—will revisit the Planning Commission's proposed ordinance to ban all extreme oil and gas extraction methods. Supporters of the ban will have a chance to address the damaging revisions … [Read more...]
Keystone XL & The TPP, Apr 4
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will unequivocally undermine all the hard-fought gains won by the environmental movement. What can we do about it? After the historic veto by President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, TransCanada started … [Read more...]
Climate Justice Speakers at SFSU, May 3
Race, Activism and Climate Justice, a class at San Francisco State University, will host widely respected and dynamic activists in a series of late afternoon sessions that are open to the public. Talks are followed by Q/A. Tues, April 12 … [Read more...]