Who gets the most environmental money in Mendocino County? State Parks? The Sierra Club? No way. The Campbell Timber Company is our pick for the greatest taker of environmental funds in Mendocino County. The global logging firm also richly enjoys its position at the front of the trough of local public grant and land...
Plan would have put up to 680 wave energy devices off Mendocino’s Coast By David Gurney www.noyonews.net Another plan to harness power from Mendocino’s wild coast line has failed. GreenWave Energy Solutions, LLC was denied a preliminary permit for the proposed “Green Wave Mendocino Wave Park Project” for failing to work “in good faith”...
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is challenging Martin Schepergerdes’ proposal to take water from Bear Creek, bottle it and sell it to wholesale distributors. 7.3 acre feet or 2,378,715 gallons of water would be extracted annually. “We plan to be selling potable spring water, wholesale,” Schepergerdes’ application to the Division of Water Rights,...
Inside a drab warehouse on the outskirts of Fort Bragg, David and Gail are bringing to life a new food utensil: Glass straws. “Glass is an excellent replacement for single use plastic straws,” explains Gail Johnson, who with her partner David Leonhart own Glass Dharma. Leonhart began blowing glass more than 15...
Grand Jury Critical of City’s Garbage Contract. The City of Ukiah signed off on a new garbage contract that is more beneficial to the contractor than for the city and its people. That’s the conclusion reached by the Mendocino County Grand Jury in their recently published inquiry. Councilmember Phil Baldwin was the...
By Julie Liebenbaum A rural lifestyle isn’t as simple as it seems. For those who want to know how to make it a little easier, the Not So Simple Living Fair will show you. For 3 days, a deep and varied roster of local farmers, ranchers, naturalists and artisans will share an impressive range...
Direct Action Blockade Planned at McCloud River June 30th-July 4th. H’up Chonas, the War Dance is an act of preparation for a coming struggle, according to Gary Hayward Slaughter Malcahy, a war dancer with the Winnemem Wintu tribe. “In a war dance you’re asking the spirits for strength, power in order to withstand...
A consortium of environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit May 1st, challenging the Willits Bypass, a proposed four-lane freeway around the community of Willits, Ca. Plaintiffs argue the bypass would hurt wetlands, salmon-bearing streams and endangered plants. “Bulldozing a freeway the size of Interstate 5 through precious wetlands would be wasteful and destructive —...
Lovers Lane is home to vineyards, a bee keeping operation, and a host of other farms in the Ukiah Valley, just on the outskirts of town, where the city ends, and the pastures begin. But, a proposed rezone of 17 acres would allow the development of more than 300 housing units in the rich...
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed A new documentary chronicling the attempted assassination of local Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney premiers in Mendocino County April 4th and 5th at the Noyo Theater, in Willits. Directed by car-bomb victim Darryl Cherney, who was initially an FBI suspect, the film...
