Students Across the Country Tell PepsiCo: “We Won’t Work for Conflict Palm Oil”
PepsiCo Stands to Lose Out on Recruiting Top Millennial Talent Every Fall, college and universities across the country welcome companies on their campuses to provide networking opportunities for students. These…
Palm Oil: Bad for Forests, and Your Health
Appetite for Destruction: Palm Oil DiariesCrossposted at One Green Planet I recently watched a fascinating new documentary film called, “Appetite for Destruction: Palm Oil Diaries.” In it, filmmaker Michael Dorgan…
Will the RSPO enforce its own rules and protect workers rights?
The backbone of any certification system is its credibility in the market. If brands like PepsiCo, and others in the Snack Food 20, put a so-called ‘sustainable’ palm oil label…
Delivering our “message in a bottle”: A quarter million people call for PepsiCo to cut Conflict Palm Oil
The phrase “the elephant in the room” is, by definition, “an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is going unaddressed; an obvious problem or risk no one wants…
WWF’s Palm Oil Scorecard Rewards Companies With Links to Child Labor and Forest Destruction
Palm oil is a subject of heated debate across the globe. Why? Put simply it is a controversial, yet nearly universal, commodity. The expansion of industrial scale plantations has destroyed…
Orphaned Orangutan Gets Second Chance After His Home Was Destroyed by Palm Oil
Cross-posted at EcoWatch. As Conflict Palm Oil companies move into priceless rainforests like Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, they are leaving a trail of destruction behind. Chocolate the orangutan is one of…
#TeamRainforest: Challenging Abercrombie & Fitch on its Home Turf
What happens when #TeamRainforest comes to your party? No one can miss us! Last week, 50 RAN activists came to Abercrombie & Fitch’s biggest event of the year—its annual party…
PepsiCo’s Conflict Palm Oil Problem: Taking the Fight to PepsiCo’s Doorstep
A few miles north of New York City, what do Westchester and Fairfield Counties have to do with child labor? Species extinction? Rainforest destruction? Climate change? Everything. PepsiCo’s Conflict Palm…
Op-Ed: The limits of bank self-regulation in fighting deforestation
Check out this Financial Times op-ed from Ben Goldsmith on the laws needed to stop banks from financing companies putting people and forests at risk. Banks and investors in Southeast…
Video: A Dozen Youth Leaders Flash Mob Hollister Store
Young people aren’t buying it. A dozen youth leaders did a flash mob at a Hollister store in Detroit to demand it use rainforest-free fabrics in its clothing. Watch the…