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problems with the deal to save the Redwoods in

California...

 

'talking points' related to the weaknesses in the

government's proposed "solution" for Headwaters:

 

-- For a $380 million price tag, the government's

plan would allow Pacific Lumber to cut ONE ENTIRE

ANCIENT GROVE, Owl Creek, even though it is

CURRENTLY PROTECTED under the Endangered Species

Act.

 

-- The government's plan would allow one ancient

tree to be cut for every one it saves!

 

-- The government's plan doesn't even follow their

own guidelines for protection of coho salmon, an

ESA-listed threatened species, as outlined in the

Clinton Administration's Northwest Forest Plan.

 

-- Pacific Lumber MUST be required to follow, at a

minimum, the federal guidelines for species

protection. Unless Pacific Lumber meets these

conditions, the taxpayers cannot be asked to foot

the $380 million bill.

 

-- Ninety-six percent of nation's ancient redwood

forests have already been wiped out by logging.

How can we allow any more of this rare ecosystem

to be destroyed for deck furniture and redwood

siding?

 

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the New York Times finally reported on the

Headwaters crisis-- the most urgent conservation

issue in the U.S. today. the article was

primarily about Butterfly - the 24 year old

activist named Julia Hill who has for the past 3

months been living on a small plywood platform

perched in a 1000 yr. old redwood tree slated for

logging.

 

"We have to stop the rape of the forest, we have

to stop putting the almighty dollar above the

environment," Ms. Hill said by walkie-talkie as

she clambered barefoot along the branches of her

tree, 15 stories up."

 

"In the tree, Ms. Hill busies herself answering

fan mail from around the nation, writing poetry on

recycled cereal boxes and giving interviews. On a

recent spring morning, surrounded by mammoth

stumps of freshly cut trees, she appealed from her

treetop aerie: "They should not cut one more

old-growth tree."

 

from Headwaters Sanctuary Project and Bay Area

Action

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BANK OF AMERICA ASKED TO PROTECT HEADWATERS FOREST

- A group of San Francisco Bay Area environmental

organizations is asking BankAmerica Corp., parent

company of the largest Maxxam Inc. institutional

shareholder, to support a shareholder resolution

aimed at improving the environmental practices and

management accountability of Maxxam, owner of

Pacific Lumber Co. and the Headwaters Forest. The

resolution, sponsored by the As You Sow

Foundation, asks Maxxam to consider stopping its

practice of clear-cutting old-growth redwood trees

and to start using sustainable forestry practices.

Hundreds of people have written to the Bank asking

it to support the resolution in a grass-roots

campaign led by the Bay Area Coalition for

Headwaters and Rainforest Action Network.

Investment banking firm BankAmerica Robertson

Stephens, a wholly-owned BofA subsidiary, owns

483,200 shares or approximately 5.8 percent of

Maxxam common shares.

 

from: The EnviroNews Service

 

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Greenpeace vs loggers

Of the 353 original forested valleys on the

westcoast of Canada, only 69 remain intact. The

majority of these are slated to be clearcut in the

next 10 years.

 

The rate of logging and the rarity of this forest

type make the Canadian rainforests among the most

threatened ancient forests in the world. Temperate

rainforests are also home to some of the greatest

and oldest trees on earth. Many grow to more than

100 metres (325 feet) tall and are up to 1,500

years old.

 

"the last pristine rainforest valleys in Canada

must be saved. In the Amazon the rainforests are

burning, in Canada 10,000 years of evolution is

being clearcut for things like cosmetics, glue and

doors. It's time for the world to wake up to this

ecological catastrophe." --Al Baker, one of the

Greenpeace activists calling attention to the companies

importing ancient rainforest products.

 

from The EnviroNews Service at

newsdesk@envirolink.org

NRDC reports in the Spring issue of Amicus Journal
(story by John Murphy) as follows:

A "widely used group of plastic engineering
compounds called phthalates has been shown to
reduce sperm counts in rats.  Children's toys,
cellular phones, and the plastic interiors of new
cars are some of the everyday products made with
phthalates.  Who would have thought that plastics,
some of the most permanent and omnipresent
materials of our age, would exude biologically
active compounds?  Who would have thought?"



can't find the zip code and u are on your way to
the mailbox?

plug in the addresss, city and state and u get the
zip in just a click

&

index for lists of personal webpages of students
at every university in the world  




the web is a tool, period.

Speaking in Internet World, of CondeNet Joan
Feeney said "People are used to a computer as a
tool, they don't want to read a 10,000-word essay
about the joys of Vienna in the winter."  Feeney
is editorial director of a series of sites that
have nothing much to do with their successful
print counterparts, and rejects many conventional
web strategies if they don't satisfy her "tool"
criterion.   For example, "Chat events" that force
users to be at their computers at certain times. 
"I don't see the value of asking Julia Child a
question in real time, vs an archival format."




The Internet Is For Everyone

A newly formed privacy coalition today announced a
national PR blitz to fight federal government
restrictions on strong encryption and a Clinton
administration proposal to give police and spy
agencies back-door access to all Americans'
encrypted data. The group, Americans for Computer
Privacy, is announcing in Washington a grass-roots
political campaign, media blitz, and congressional
lobbying effort aimed at preserving privacy

Sign-on statement supporting free speech principle
for the Internet

in "The New Business Class" from the March 8, '98

NYT Magazine, Pico Iyer writes:

 

"...all around us are tens and thousands of

members of a new floating class who may be very

much up in the air. The "borderless economy" we

hear trumpeted so often means that today's

businessmen and women have to live everywhere at

once, and the speed of global communications means

that they can be anywhere tomorrow. Frequent

Business Travelers (FBT's) are the new breed for

whom "globalization" takes root in the stomach and

the heart."

 

and this is how he describes himself:

 

"I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable

sensibility, living and working in a world that is

itself increasingly small and increasingly

mongrel. I am a multinational soul on a

multinational globe on which more and more

countries are as polyglot and restless as

airports. Taking planes seems as natural to me as

picking up the phone or going to school; I fold up

my self and carry it around as if it were an

overnight bag."

 

see interview with Pico Iyer on Postmodern Tourism

in the Sun Magazine

India Watch

MTV India is received in over 7.8 million homes in
India via cable.  They are gearing up with a
campaign like Rock the Vote to deal with the
political apathy of India's youth

also... Richard Gere is helping India deal with AIDS
by helping to launch a campaign in India to raise
awareness of the dangers of AIDS/HIV.  But,
according to Court News, there is the matter of a 
lawsuit against Gere filed at the end of 1996:

Aned Productions v.Richard Gere: 

Actor agreed to
appear as honored celebrity guest at a concert in
Greece to benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
He made a series of demands which were agreed to
that included reservations as a five-star hotel
for himself and his entourage, a Lear jet to pick
him up in India, 24-hour Mercedes Benz limousine
service, and an advance payment of $500,000 to the
Gere Foundation which supports the Tibetan
Buddhist community. Then Gere allegedly decided
not to appear and the concert had to be canceled.




World's Simplest Eco-Paper Procurement Guide

Most companies want to use the most
environmentally-sound paper they can buy. But
recycled paper procurement guides are often
complicated, confusing, and obsolete by the time
they reach you.  To solve that, Greg Dicum,
Global Futures' senior analyst for forest issues,
has created the World's Simplest Eco-Paper
Procurement Guide.  The one-page guide is
available free to all Future 500 members, and to
any company that commits to a procurement policy
that favors state-of-the-art environmental paper
products.

 Join Future 500 or receive your free guide



GO Organic with those t-shirts!

from Josh Knauer The EnviroLink Network:

Our Go Organic Campaign is really taking off. 
Soon you will see our apparel in some rather
mainstream stores around the country.  Our main
goal is to take organic products to the
mainstream.  It appears to be off to a good start.

One of the other aspects for the campaign is to
encourage other non-profits to switch from
"natural" (which is just a color in the apparel
industry) or conventional cotton to 100% certified
organic cotton t-shirts and apparel.  The vendors
that we are working with are finally offering
t-shirts at a price that is competetive with
conventional cotton, and the Go Organic Campaign
will set up the online commerce area for the
organizations that join.  The organization walks
away with custom shirts, a website to sell them,
and all distribution issues taken care of.




ten reasons to use the modem and not a condom:

Seems like cybersex is all over the news these
days. You've already seen how "Playboy" is seeking
to increase its influence in the online world.
MSNBC raised a bit of an uproar when they
announced their intention to conduct a cybersex
survey

So what's the big deal? Why is netsex gaining
popularity on old fashioned sex?

10. It's easy to turn a computer on--just flip the
switch. 
9. Virtual dancing baby easier to care for
than real one. 
8. Less threat of Kenneth Starr investigation. 
7. No trips to the doctor if you catch a computer virus. 
6. The low cost of commitment: only $19.95 in ISP charges. 
5. Monitor size doesn't matter. 
4. Easier to hide a laptop if someone walks in. 
3. You never spend a penny on deodorant, or perfume
2. Everybody assumes "clinton@whitehouse.gov" is an alias.
1. No need to say, "I have a headache"--just claim
   you couldn't dial into your AOL account.



Zen and the Brain Toward an Understanding of
Meditation and Consciousness James H. Austin, M.D.

Aldous Huxley called humankind's basic trend
toward spiritual growth the "perennial
philosophy." In the view of James Austin, the
trend implies a "perennial
psychophysiology"--because awakening, or
enlightenment, occurs when the human brain
undergoes substantial changes. What are the peak
experiences of enlightenment? How could these
states profoundly enhance, and yet simplify, the
workings of the brain? Zen and the Brain presents
the latest evidence.

For more information 

& see the new baths at Esalen (the old ones were
destroyed in the El Nino storms)



are we dead yet?

<< Now tell me the definative way that you can
tell that you are actually alive, or dead for that
matter right now.  Since you don't know what is
like to be dead, how do you know that you are not
already? I am completely serious with this.  How
many of you remember dying and finding yourselves
back here again and again and again like Bill
Murray in GROUNDHOG DAY.  Even if you don't
remember dying one or more times how can you
really tell?  Maybe some people have near life
experiences.

by Fred Davis in the NOVELTY Digest - 21 Feb 1998



Big Brother in Canada?

A secret hearing of Canda's Immigration and
Refugee Board was told the Canadian government
paid $31-million during the early 1980s for
state-of-the-art software to track Canadian
citizens by interfacing with credit card
transactions, banking data, driver's license
information, pension records, taxation
information, criminal records and immigration
records, according to transcripts. The U.S.-made
Promis system could provide details of a person's
health care and even library transactions.  (from
Ottawa Sun 2 Feb 98 via Edupage)




Encryption 101 - a mandatory course 

Encryption is a very important issue for everyone
to start getting up to speed on.

"We now live in a world where video cameras are
omnipresent and credit card trails are
unavoidable. Even worse, the Internet's emergence
as an indispensable means for communication
ensures that our every electronic utterance
becomes daily more accessible to busybodies armed
with supercomputers..."  Encryption is an
important tool for bringing back the balance... we
have enjoyed Andrew Leonard's SALON review of the
new book, "Privacy on the Line: The Politics of
Wiretapping and Encryption," by Whitfield Diffie
and Susan Landau.



return to magic... a post industrial blessing

"we need a return to  the art of natural magic. we
need more drum ming to the beat of physiologically
compatible rythm signatures. we need an end of the
millineum mythology. we need to be in action, we
need to be dancing hellatiously to the beat of the
rapture. and not a moment too soon."

--by Bob Carpenter in the Novelty List:  March 8, 98
(owner-NOVELTY@SERVICES.WEB.AOL.COM)

May you always stay moist and fecund, have deep
cetacean dreams, reduce, reuse and recycle, never
run short of stinky crystally buds, stay pregnant
with profound perception, and may your airbags
never malfunction.

--by Ace <maroxco@CYBERIS.NET>  in the Novelty
List 



Apple dumps Dalai Lama

HHDL has been dumped from the Asian run of Apple's
"Think Different" campaign because, according to
Vincent Lum, Apple's Asia-Pacific marketing
director, he isn't well known enough in Asia. The
five famous people who will help Apple sell its
wares in Asia are Alfred Hitchcock, Albert
Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Mahatma Gandhi, and
Amelia Earhart.

perhaps Apple should hear from you about this
transparent sucking up to China. 

&

98' Tibetan Freedom Concert in DC:

SonicNet, The Milarepa Fund & The Ultimate Band
List present the official Tibetan Freedom Concert
'98 website 

The Milarepa Fund's Tibetan Freedom Concert '98
took place at Washington DC's RFK Stadium on
Saturday, June 13th and Sunday, June 14th with a
rally on Monday, June 15th. Tickets for the event
sold out in six hours.

Performers included A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie
Boys, Beck, Radiohead,Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Pearl
Jam, Dave Matthews, The Verve, KRS-ONE, Kraftwerk.
& more. Also featured were notable speakers
including Ven. Palden Gyatso and Wei Jingsheng.



BANNED PESTICIDES SHIPPED OVERSEAS 

Toxic pesticides forbidden in the U.S. were shipped from
U.S. ports at a rate of nearly 16 tons per day in
1995 and 1996, according to a new report to be
released by the Foundation for Advancements in
Science and Education (FASE). Most of the
pesticides were headed to destinations in the
developing world. The report is the fifth that the
public interest group has published since 1991,
when it began to document the trade in hazardous
pesticides by analyzing transcriptions of U.S.
Customs shipping records. FASE found that more
than 28 million pounds of pesticides designated as
"extremely hazardous" by the World Health
Organization were exported in 1996 alone - a more
than 500 percent increase over the 1992 total of 5
million pounds. Currently, the group says, U.S.
policy allows the export of banned pesticides, as
well as pesticides which have never been evaluated
by the EPA.

from The EnviroNews Service

&

from Metropolis, a story on the promise of
traveling the world without leaving your luxury
liner condo....

``A large luxury ship with 250 spacious luxury
homes and 182 guest suites, 7 restaurants, bars,
cinema, theatre, casino, a variety of sports,
relaxation and cultural facilities as well as a
business service centre with professional
secretaries and a licensed securities broker on
board, is the next logical step in the evolution
of both the luxury cruise as well as the resort
industry. By bringing these concepts together we
are creating a new lifestyle allowing people to
travel the world without leaving home.''
Cabinswill come in standard sizes range from 965
to 2,189 square feet, with price tags going from
$1.12 million to $5.38 million. If those aren't
grand enough, there are two-story and penthouse
units, plus some custom homes. Annual maintenance
fees for standard suites will go from $61,500 to
$241,300.   The ship will have 700 residents with
500 full time staff  and it is scheduled to take
its maiden voyage in the summer of 2000.

check the floor plans,or go to the ship's website
  


the y2k (year 2000) debate from the Novelty List:

Date:    Fri, 3 Apr 1998 03:36:31 -0800 
From:    Gary Glynn <gpg@BLUEMARBLE.NET 
Subject: Re:System Failure

In reference to the banking system ala y2k. I
don't think that you'll have until mid-1999 before
you see a case of the runs. On April 1, 1999, a
new fiscal year rolls over for New York State,
Canada and Japan -- that is to say, rolls over to
Fiscal Year 00. This could be one of the first
actual y2k shock waves to impact us.

Japan has the world's largest banks, banks that
are completely dependent on dated digital
transfers. Japan is already on shaky fiscal ground
and come Fall 98, if word leaks that the banks are
going belly-up come Spring 99, you can bet (in
gold) that Japanese housewifes will run on the
banks.

I would guess that a run on banks in New York OR
Canada OR Japan would be enough to trigger a
global bank-run. Treasuries wouldn't be able to
print money fast enough (haven't we already
learned this lesson?), never mind FDIC. My guess
is that banks and global markets will go down
BEFORE the Bug bites us in the ass on April Fools
Day, 1999.

So, if you're thinking about waiting until the
last minute to grab your savings and run, you
might want move the date back a little. I'm not an
investor as I already live rather close to the
edge, but I would watch gold and silver markets,
especially gold. If the price begins to surge
upward, there will be little time left before
everyone else as clever as yourself realizes that
the last minute has already passed.

----------------

a dialogue on the Novelty List:

Joshua wrote:   I don't buy the date bug 
bringing down many ultracritical systems.  I
think the powers that  control and depend on
those systems have the resources to keep them 
going.

Then I countered:  Here's where you are
mistaken. The most precious resource the powers
that be need is time, and they simply don't have
enough of it to fix the problem.

Then Joshua responded: Hmmm.... I didn't say the
were going to fix the problem.  Egosystems of
greed (corporation/govt) have guns/ammo
(resources) at their disposal. Those are the
resources that could keep them going, should we
percieve ourselves still under their control.

Well, what does "I don't buy the date bug bringing
down many ultracritical sytems" imply then?
Doesn't that mean you think the problem will be
fixed?

My take on the matter is this:  People will
generally have a high level of awareness about the
problem, (thanks to the media) and a low
general level of understanding (thanks to the
media). Isn't that the recipe for fear?

<snip>

 I do agree there will be a general panic, and
possibly some kind of fiscal meltdown, and not
because of the y2k monster -- but because we
percieve the y2k monster to be beneath the bed.

The y2k monster *IS* beneath our beds! That's why
it's so scary.