Mendocino Environmental Center

By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, and Alex Seitz-Wald

The Progress Report

AlterNet

December 10, 2009.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/144494

As delegates from countries across the globe gather at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world is waiting to see if international leaders will commit to the bold reductions in carbon emissions needed to curb the [...]

Published on Saturday, November 21, 2009 by CommonDreams.org

by Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should [...]

From: www.mendocinocountry.com

Under three separate programs hatched in Washington DC, the federal government intends to militarize and industrialize the entire Pacific coast of America, from Seattle to San Diego. While these programs began during the era of Bush, they continue undiminished in the Obama administration. .
Each of these projects has its own government agency sponsor and [...]

This great article by Judith Vidaver of the Ocean Protection Coalition, published in the coalition’s June newsletter, strongly opposes Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s corrupt fast-track Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Process. There is nothing “green” about this process that aims to kick sustainable seaweed harvesters, fishermen and abalone divers off Point Arena to pave the way [...]

Downtown is deserted. Foggy and wet. So we busted out some markers and paper. This is what happened.

The Mendocino Environmental Center has recently joined the Mendo Time Bank, an up-and-coming local exchange network that uses time for currency. In pursuit of our common goals of environmental stewardship, community building, and social justice, Mendo Time Bank is partnering with the MEC and will eventually be part of MEC’s new Transition Town Ukiah project [...]

In 1999, The Mendocino Environmental Center sent two busloads of advocates to Seattle to protest the economic globalization that was the focus of the World Trade Organization conference. In spite of a cold rain, thousands of protesters showed up and managed to block traffic so well that the conference was unable to accomplish any of [...]

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From the Northern Iowa University Food Project:

BIOLOGICAL
Freshness and taste- Locally-grown fruits and vegetables are usually harvested within 24 hours of being purchased. Produce picked and eaten at the height of ripeness tastes better. Imported produce from distant places can’t be that fresh and is often treated with [...]