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Tell Governor Jerry Brown: Stop Fracking, Do It for the Drought.

March 18, 2015 by Ecology Center

This week, a NASA researcher published an op-ed with the title, “California has about one year of water left,” causing a viral drought frenzy on the internet. Individual drought-shaming is already a trend, and Governor Brown asked every Californian to conserve water when he declared a drought emergency last January. Our collective effort should be… Read more »

What Does Real Climate Leadership Look Like?

February 20, 2015 by Kad.Smith

On Saturday, Feb 7th, I took to the streets along with 8,000 others to march in support of real climate leadership across the state of California and beyond. The march was a peaceful – yet powerful – assembly of advocates, activists, and allies of the vital climate justice movement. As the threat of climate change… Read more »

Dirty Energy/Clean Solutions Climate Conference, 5/9/14-5/11/14

May 7, 2014 by Ecology Center

350 Bay Area and Sunflower Alliance are hosting a Climate Conference, Dirty Energy, Clean Solutions this weekend. Mark Jacobson, Stanford professor, plus thirty-one other expert scientists and activists will present cutting-edge information that will significantly raise our effectiveness as climate activists. Spanish translation available. Here’s the overview of the conference: Friday: (San Francisco: Unitarian Universalist… Read more »

Tonight! Keep Dangerous Fracked Oil Out of Berkeley

March 25, 2014 by Ecology Center

Oil companies in the Bay Area have proposed plans to move explosive fracked crude oil through major Bay Area cities, using the same tracks as Amtrak’s passenger rail line. This move puts all the cities along the path of this rail route at risk, including Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland and San Jose. This region has a… Read more »

Fracking During a Drought?

January 28, 2014 by Ecology Center

Governor Brown has called for Californians to voluntarily cut back water use by 20% to help ease strain on our water resources during the drought. What he’s kept quiet about is the water-intensive fracking wells throughout the state that may be developed under oil-industry friendly SB 4. Each well uses an average of 5 million… Read more »