Did you know that active drilling rigs may be legally built within 150 feet of your home? Did you also know that only half of the paper you toss gets recycled? What about the cosmic dangers of our said-to-be fix-it ticket, the Cap and Trade system? Or the harmful health risks associated with the common corn-fed diet? These issues were all addressed at the fourth annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival Thursday. The festival was hosted by nonprofits Tuleyome and Sierra Club Yolano Group at Veterans Memorial Theater in Davis. The South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) started the Wild & Scenic Film Festival hoping to spread environmental awareness and action through film, and it has. Installm

Discussion over a Nestlé water-bottling plant appears to be growing in Sacramento, as the Swiss multinational prepares a facility for operation and new hires begin work. The Sacramento City Council, which was not involved in the decision to approve the plant, will discuss the issue publicly for the first time after a request two weeks ago by council members Kevin McCarty and Lauren Hammond. They asked the council to consider an emergency ordinance requiring a special permit before Nestlé Waters North America begins bottling city tap water and spring water at a plant in South Sacramento. Such a permit could "trigger" an environmental analysis of this and future facilities, McCarty said We

  In the heart of quiet, residential west Davis, the management members of the Sierra Club Yolano Group, a close-knit circle of eight elderly friends that represent the Yolo and Solano counties, met on Oct. 8 to discuss the progress to set aside a national conservation area surrounding Berryessa Snow Mountain. The proposed national conservation area would include 800,000 acres west of Sacramento and north of the San Francisco Bay, with elevations ranging between 2,000 and 7,000 feet.  Putah and Cache creeks both wind through the area, greenery to the whole valley.  The Sierra Club is one of many groups trying to get this land legal protection. The land is also home to many animals, incl