Environmental Protests - Radical Environmentalism, Berkeley Oak Grove Controversy, 2009 G-20 London Summit Protests (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Radical environmentalism, Berkeley oak grove controversy, 2009 G-20 London summit protests, 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests, Camp for Climate Action, Drax power station, Plane Stupid, Road protest in the United Kingdom, Hands off our Forest, Tree sitting, Kingsnorth power station, List of road protests in the UK and Ireland, Didcot power stations, Phosphorite War, Environmental direct action in the United Kingdom, Marsden B, Nine Ladies, Climate Rush, Campaign against Climate Change, Save Manapouri Campaign, Plane Mad, Tasmania's Wilderness Battles. Excerpt: The University of California, Berkeley oak grove controversy arose over the planned removal of a grove of oak trees in preparation for the construction of a new student athletic training center for the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley municipal law prohibits removing any coast live oak with a trunk larger than six inches within city boundaries, but city boundaries do not include the university and the university further claimed an exemption to the city law as a state agency. The university's actions sparked three lawsuits, as well as a tree sit-in that ran from December 2006 to September 2008, when the trees in question were finally cut down. Campus map, with the approximate location of the grove marked in blue.The oak grove sits at the base of California Memorial Stadium and at the time of the controversy consisted of about 90 trees: 65 oaks, including 38 coast live oaks, 25 pittosporum, 8 redwoods, 5 pines and 1 or 2 cypress, cedar, pepper and yew trees. Anywhere from two to five of the oaks predated the 83-year-old stadium. According to Lech Naumovich, a conservation analyst for the California Native Plant Society, "This is one of the most outstanding examples of oak woodland in an urban interface, and the last remnant of coast live oak woodland...