Unite with young journalists across the globe in combatting climate change today at Project Survival Media’s second annual fundraiser and launch party in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Maybe it happened over the border in Berkeley, but that doesn't mean Thursday's Take Back the Mic! was anything but a hard-core Oakland event.  Organized by Bay Localize's Dave Room (aka Melia's Papa), the event brought together LA-based green sustainability talent Derrick Ashong and his partner Jonathan M Gramling, who together make up Soulfege, with the Town's own green hip-hop players Audiopharmacy, Seasunz & Ambessa FiyaPowa, Aaron Ableman Ensemble and Sunru all joining in.

As part of this month’s events honoring the earth, it is important to celebrate the Environmental Justice movement and its intersections with green job and housing opportunities.

People of all different ages and ethnicities gathered outside of the Tassafaronga Recreation Center on Saturday in preparation for the rally kickin’ off the 2nd Annual Love Yo Mama Earth Day event.

Weaving health and environmental justice, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) held the second annual ‘Love Yo Mama’ Earth Day on April 24 in East Oakland.

The collapse of negotiations at the recent United Nations global warming conference in Copenhagen has left the entire world scratching it’s head and wondering, “Now what?”

 What are you doing this upcoming Saturday?  Do you want to be inspired?  Meet the next generation of changemakers?  Cultivate some hope for the future?

Calling all local filmmakers and environmental justice advocates!

For one slice of West Oakland, being wedged between two freeways takes a heavy toll on the lungs of residents -- especially children...

Calling for an end to the unequal enforcement of environmental laws and disproportionate environmental impacts in low-income communities of color, the Toxic Triangle Coalition will hold its first public hearing on Saturday, February 13th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Allen Temple Baptist Church in the J. Alfred Smith Sr.

In honor of their 25th anniversary, Changes Salon and Day Spa, Center for Well Being has organized the Deserves Changes contest (http://deserveschanges.com) in order to support, empower, and provide a platform for one deserving woman in our community.  The winner will receive over $10,000 in prizes designed to support the total

Low-income truckers who would have been shut out of working at the Port of Oakland on Jan. 4  now have a reprieve, thanks to the the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Air Resources Board.

These two entities have come up with an additional $3 million in what Mayor Dellum's spokesperson, Paul Rose, describes as "grants."