Photo Of The Day: Candidate Obama On Ending The Tyranny Of Oil
Today’s photo of the day comes from the ongoing civil disobedience at the White House to protest the new tar sands pipeline, Keystone XL, which President Obama has the power…
Malaysian Palm Oil Scheme: More Problems, Fewer Answers
This post was written by Andrew Ng, a RAN ally and committed activist who has spent more than a decade working on forest issues. What is the future of the…
Cargill’s Not-So-Cold Turkey: Bad Habits In The Global Food Chain
Sometimes it’s hard to break a bad habit. Especially if that bad habit is sabotaging safety in the name of record profits. But why must the public continually shoulder the…
VIDEO: Tar Sands Action By “Gasland” Director Josh Fox
“There’s only been one tool that people have turned to in desperate times to change the world: Civil disobedience.” Director Josh Fox was nominated for an Oscar for his film…
I Hope King Would Have Been Proud Of The Tar Sands Action
This blog was orginally posted on the Daily Kos on August 19th as part of the Stop Tar Sands Blogathon. On Sunday, Aug 28th, the Martin Luther King Jr. National…
Cargill’s Record Profits Come at the Expense of Record Deforestation
Cargill just reported record profits of $4.2 billion dollars for its 2010 fiscal year, a 63% increase over the previous year. As the world’s biggest agricultural trader — and the…
Chevron PR Hack Accidentally Reveals Chevron’s Dirty Dealings In Ecuador
Chevron PR spokesman Kent Robertson’s constant efforts to spin court proceedings to fit his company’s twisted version of events in Ecuador may be about to blow up in his face…
New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Clean Water Act – In Mountaintop Removal States
A new poll released yesterday of likely voters in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia shows widespread opposition to mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and overwhelming support for enforcement of…
Midwest Rising: Fifteen Arrested Taking Action Against Banks And Big Coal
Yesterday, hundreds of folks attending the Midwest Rising! Convergence took to the streets of St. Louis to protest Bank of America and Peabody Coal. Fifteen community and climate activists were…
Breaking: “Ethical Oil” Campaign Uses Stolen, Faked Photos
Canadian Conservative acolyte Alykhan Velshi made headlines last month with a set of bombastic ads contrasting the virtues of Canada’s “ethical oil” with the evils of “conflict oil countries.” Leading…
Energy Co-Ops: Generating All Kinds of Green for Local Communities
With all of the panic surrounding stocks, I’m clearly not the only one wondering where I should put my money for the long term. I want to know that my…
PHOTOS: RAN on the Frontlines of Indonesia’s Endangered Rainforests
RAN Forest Campaigner Lafcadio Cortesi and I traveled to Sumatra, Indonesia last month to meet with and interview an extensive network of allies involved in the movement to resist the…
Can Protected Areas Combat the Sixth Mass Extinction?
Our planet is currently facing one of the most destructive extinction events in the history of the earth, with an estimated loss of 30,000 species per year, known as the…
Malaysia’s “Sustainable” Palm Oil Just Pure Greenwash
Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil. Photo: astromediashop As I reported on Monday, the Malaysian government—hand in hand with the country’s largest palm oil companies—is attempting to undermine the RSPO’s “sustainable palm…
Black Flags and Windmills: Climate Justice in Action
“Anarchy is not chaos, anarchy is self organization at its root. It’s the belief that any of us can get together and make decisions, that we don’t need someone 3,000…
Greenwash Backfire: Asia Pulp and Paper PR Stunt “Sparks New Controversy”
Just weeks after images of one of the world’s last remaining Sumatran tigers dying in a trap set in an Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) plantation were broadcast to the…
VIDEO: Mark Ruffalo Supports the Tar Sands Action in D.C.
Mark Ruffalo, who has courageously fought against fracking in his home state of New York and across the country, has issued a video in support of the Tar Sands Action,…
In Case You Were Wondering: Yes, Chevron Still Thinks We’re All Stupid
Chevron’s attempts to greenwash its image while doing nothing to take responsibility for its environmental and human rights abuses around the globe continue unabated. So we decided to re-launch ChevronThinksWereStupid.org…
Thus Far and No Further: Gulf Coast and Arizona Activists Fight Back
There are all kinds of action camps planned this month that will be challenging the root causes of climate change— i.e. the fossil fuel industry—in the Midwest, Southeast and Pacific…
VIDEO: Senator Bernie Sanders Offers Support for Keystone XL Tar Sands Protest
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a prophetic voice for justice and love, has lent his voice to the upcoming Tar Sands Action. The support from Sen. Sanders and other courageous…
The Filter Bubble Raises Important Issues – You Just Need To Filter Them Out For Yourself
If you’re under the impression that Google is piping the raw, unfiltered world to your computer monitor or smart phone every day, then you’re mistaken. And that mistake could cost…
Get A Free Ride With Malaysia’s New Sustainable Palm Oil Certification Scheme
If a massive palm oil company decides that getting its plantations certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is, well, just too hard, what do you think happens?…
ThinkProgress Reporters Attacked by Security Guards
Corporations are getting more nervous and more protective of their dirty secrets. Witness this incident at the American Legislative Exchange Council. Originally posted at ThinkProgress: Yesterday, at a conference in…
Cure Your Summertime Blues With Coal Action Camp
It’s going to be some hot business this summer, and we ain’t talkin about the triple digit heat wave hitting much of the country. There is a rebellious spirit sweeping…
What is Sustainable Palm Oil? Part Three
This is the third and final installment in a series of posts that endeavors to answer a simple question: What is sustainable palm oil? The answer, of course, is anything…