UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal has video of RAN activists confronting ADM CEO Patricia Woertz! http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/452319854 Three RAN activists– Levana Saxon, Annie Sartor, and I– made Patricia Woertz, CEO of…
“We All Live at Climate Ground Zero” It is time for American citizens to take leadership & direct action and make our politicians accountable to us. To this end we…
Final Dispatch: Andrea and Jodie writing from the South American soy frontier On the way back from visiting the threatened Yaguarete forest and the community of Tava Guarani, we happened…
Mountain Justice Spring Break has been kicking it up in southwest Virginia this week. I got here Tuesday night and through the week over 100 students, youth, environmentalists and activist-organizers…
Our friends at Mountain Justice Spring Break have been busy this week. Perhaps we can get a Blue Grass day of action at Citi and Bank of America branches soon….
Well, it’s that time of year…time to select your Fossil Fool of the Year!! Voting is just underway here, and we’ve got a vested interest in the outcome, so, please,…
This week’s greenwash is Shell Oil’s “Say No to No” campaign. Starring our own Robin Beck. Also appearing: Lawrence Lessig’s laptop (no joke).
It’s not a secret. Environmentalism has a bad name with a lot of people – and for lots of good reasons (check the article “Soul of Environmentalism” if you are…
Dispatch #2: Jodie and Andrea writing from Paraguay Rural campesino communities in Paraguay are isolated from each other by many conditions: poor roads, distance, lack of bus fare (or lack…
Houston is stepping off on coal and global warming. This week, various energy companies hosted a “Presidential Forum” on energy issues in Houston Texas. You may be surprised to find…
What happened: Boise announced yesterday that it “wishes to honor the request of Chief Fobister to discontinue sourcing fiber from the Traditional Use Area of Grassy Narrows”. Check out their…
What happened: Boise announced yesterday that it “wishes to honor the request of Chief Fobister to discontinue sourcing fiber from the Traditional Use Area of Grassy Narrows”. Check out their…
What happened: Boise announced yesterday that it “wishes to honor the request of Chief Fobister to discontinue sourcing fiber from the Traditional Use Area of Grassy Narrows”. Check out their…
We decided to do something a little different with this greenwash of the week: video! Here’s our own Robin Beck on the Virgin Air biofuel greenwash:
This week, General Motors Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz, defended his remark dismissing global warming as a “crock of s**t.” For a moment, the remark felt like a refreshing glimmer of…
A joint dispatch from Jodie and Andrea, RAN campaigners traveling through Argentina and Paraguay: The trip between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Asuncion, Paraguay, takes 16 hours by bus. Although about…
Hot on the heels of an amazing speaking tour by members of the Durban Group for Climate Justice – a coalition of mostly California-based groups spoke out today opposing carbon-trading…
“I’m prepared to go to jail for my belief in my land.” Those words were spoken by Chief Donny Morris in a Thunder Bay Ontario courtroom on January 25th. With…
Al Gore keeps saying the most interesting things. I think he must read our website when surfing the internet late at night. This week, speaking to financial leaders controlling $20…
We’ve been getting some good press lately about how GM’s public relations people decided to turn off some features on gmnext.com and hold a special forum in response to our…
Check out this update from our friends at OSU Today, Thursday the 14th, Free The Planet members directly confronted OSU President Gordon Gee, not once, but twice. This morning I…
Students sitting-in President Gee’s office at OSU in Columbus, Ohio left peacefully at around 5:00pm yesterday. Everyone who participated in both the sit-in and the rally outside the administration’s building…
Students sitting-in President Gee’s office at OSU in Columbus, Ohio left peacefully at around 5:00pm yesterday. Everyone who participated in both the sit-in and the rally outside the administration’s building…
Students sitting-in President Gee’s office at OSU in Columbus, Ohio left peacefully at around 5:00pm yesterday. Everyone who participated in both the sit-in and the rally outside the administration’s building…
At the end of January leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation began sentencing proceedings for contempt of court charges in Ontario provincial court. The road to this point has…