.Wine, Vineyards & /or Biodiversity: Santa Barbara's Future and Central Coast's : Grapescape?: A LECTURE AND DISCUSSION WITH PHIL ASHLEY SLO ACTIVIST and BIOLOGIST
September 11 7:30PM Saturday CEC Gildea Resource Center 930 Miramonte Dr. Santa Barbara CA
Come hear Phil talk about the great harm done by Unlimited Vineyards Expansion to animal and plant biodiversity and effects to the watershed in Santa Barbara County and SLO through the fragmentation of habitat when grapes monopolize the landscape. Come and get a total ecosystem insight . Santa Barbara County and SLO are now facing this serious dilemma.South Coast Permaculture Guild 805-962-2571 sbpcnet@silcom.com

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>>From: Patricia Dines <PDines@compuserve.com>
>>To: Patricia Dines <73652.1202@compuserve.com>
>>Subject: Seeking Bad Vineyard Photographs
>>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:04:51 -0400
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>>* Please pass the word along to others who might be interested. *
>>
>>Hi all -
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>>Something you can do regarding local vineyardization.
>>
>>It also seems to me that it'd be powerful if someone could do some before
>>and after pictures, of the beautiful wild areas that were decimated to
>>create the orderly, often toxic rows of grapes.
>>
>>P. Dines
>>Community Action Publications
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>>From: Sonoma Alerts, INTERNET:REDWOOD-SONOMA-ALERTS@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG
>>From: Peter Ashcroft <peter@indy.remss.com>
>>Date: Tue, Aug 31, 1999, 12:14 AM
>>RE: [sonoma alerts] Bad Vineyard Photographs(2)
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>>PHOTOGRAPHS WANTED
>>
>>I still believe that an on-line archive of poor vineyard practices
>>can be an effective tool for public education, but it won't happen
>>unless volunteers provide us with the photographs.  So far, we
>>have only photographs of a single site (Kistler Vineyards off
>>Barcaglia Road).  Given the current flurry of vineyard, I know
>>that other examples exist of woodlands razed and hillsides "recontoured."
>>We need *you* to collect the photographic evidence.  Send
>>photographs, a few words of explanation, and contact information
>>to the Environmental Center in Santa Rosa.  We'll scan them
>>and make them available to the public over the web.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>-Peter
>>
>>-------------repeated announcement from last month------
>>
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>>In an effort to bring some public scrutiny to vineyard practices
>>normally hidden from view, the Sonoma Group of the Sierra Club
>>has launched the Vineyard Accountability Project.  Basically, this
>>will be an on-line archive of shocking vineyard photographs.  The
>>idea is that tourists searching the Web for information about Sonoma
>>County Wines will be shocked to see the practices behind the
>>bottle on the supermarket shelf.  Eventually, the vineyard owners
>>and managers will catch wind of the bad publicity, and modify
>>their practices.
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>>We are starting with Kistler Vineyards, mostly because we
>>happened to have pictures already.  In the future, we will
>>include other vineyards as well.
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>>Please take a look and let me know what you think.  We're
>>also on the lookout for other photographs of other vineyards.
>>Look at:
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>>http://www.monitor.net/redwood/sonoma/
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>>and then click on "Vineyard Accountability".  Thanks in advance
>>for any suggestions or material you can provide.
>>
>>-Peter
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