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…
Oil Company Takes Responsibility For Poisoning Poor People In Developing World, No Reports Of Flying Pigs
Yesterday, hell did not freeze over. Pigs (or if you’re Italian, donkeys) were not seen flying through the air on gossamer wings. What did happen yesterday? A major oil company…
Paper Tiger: RAN Featured in Must-See Expose on Indonesian Logging
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has just aired a damning exposé called “Paper Tiger” about the devastating deforestation caused by the pulp and paper industry in Indonesia. The program is…
Review: Two Documentaries About Environmental Direct Action Well Worth Checking Out
Two new documentaries have hit the screen, providing an intimate glimpse of the courageous activists trying to save our planet from reckless industrial exploitation. They offer very different portraits of…
Top Scientists to President: Tar Sands Oil “Does Not Make Sense To Exploit”
In a letter released today, twenty top scientists wrote to President Obama to ask him to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, the 1,700 mile-long fuse that, if lit, could help…
Top 5 Reasons The Obama-GOP Debt Ceiling Agreement Is A Bad Deal For The Environment
President Obama just signed the debt deal into law. Just in time too — there were about 10 hours to spare before the midnight deadline, after which our government would…
Just Do It
This is better than Harry Potter. Film maker Emily James has documented the emergence of a bold grassroots climate movement in the UK in her new film “Just Do It.”…
Stirring Words From Tim DeChristopher Remind Us Why Civil Disobedience Is Necessary Now More Than Ever
“I am here today because I have chosen to protect the people locked out of the system over the profits of the corporations running the system. I say this not…
C – O – A – L Spells Money
Gimme a C! Gimme an O! Gimme an A! Gimme an L! What’s that spell? MONEY!!! By now, loyal blog readers, you are aware that RAN is calling on Bank…
Obscene Second Quarter Profits Prove Once Again That Big Oil Has Americans Over A Barrel
Big Oil is laughing all the way to the bank, and the industry owes it all to you and me. The more regular Americans suffer, the richer members of the…
What Do Environmentalists And Animal Rights Activists Have In Common?
What do the environmental and animal rights movements have in common? More than you might think, including a profound love of certain vegan products that mark an intersection of our…
Yes to Sunflowers, No to Coal Plants
It’s been a tough week for the climate movement as Tim DeChristopher, one of our strongest and most articulate voices, was sent to prison for two years. But amidst the…
Bank Of America, The Bank Of Coal
Bank of America is the biggest bank in the United States and the sixth largest in the world. With over $2 trillion in assets, branches is 43 states, nearly 300,000…
Abandon Ship! Even The Palm Oil Industry Is Distancing Itself From Alan Oxley’s Lies
You might not believe it, but apparently there is a point beyond which even the palm oil industry isn’t willing to stretch the truth. And Alan Oxley just blew right…
Breaking: Climate Activist Tim DeChristopher Sentenced To Two Years
How much are you willing to sacrifice to save a piece of the world? Today a federal judge in Salt Lake City sentenced climate activist Tim DeChristopher to two years…
VIDEO: Danes And The Third Industrial Revolution
RAN has been ramping up the dialogue against coal, calling for an end to new coal-fired power plants and for existing coal plants to be retired (these currently make up…
As Exxon’s Oil Poisons Montana, Study Finds Keystone XL Risks Underestimated
The Yellowstone oil spill has fouled land and water in Montana, but a leak from the Keystone XL pipeline would be far more disastrous. Less than two weeks after the…
Old Coal Plants Like Chicago’s Fisk and Crawford Are Stopping The American Renewal
The US is facing an incredible amount of challenges: rising health care costs, crumbling infrastructure from coast to coast, and a stumbling economy, leaving millions out of work. In Chicago,…
Rev. Billy Exorcises BP from London’s Tate Modern
This just in from Reverend Billy: A coalition of earth activist groups including Art Not Oil, Climate Rush, UK Tar Sands Coalition and Liberate Tate recently approached the Church of…
Spreading the Peaceful Uprising
Time flies. It was a little over two and half years ago that our dear friend and comrade Tim DeChristopher went into a federal land auction and stopped an illegal…
Will Danger Listing Of UNESCO World Heritage Site Save The Orangutan?
Several weeks ago, three national parks in Sumatra, Indonesia were collectively labeled a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Danger. This inscription reiterates the urgency to issue full protections for the…
Bank Of America’s Shirking Responsibility Statement
Last week, Bank of America released its 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. It is more accurately described as “Bank of America’s 2010 Shirking Responsibility Report,” however. The document, titled “Opportunity…
Victory At Glen Cove: “A Win For the Ancestors”
Nearly 100 days of continuous prayer on-site at Segorea Te (also known as Glen Cove) near San Francisco, California, has precipitated a precedent-setting victory for the protection of a sacred…
Tree-Sit Stops Mountaintop Removal Blasting on Coal River
I love the smell of direct action in the morning. Last week, I was part of Earth First! and Northern Rockies Rising Tide taking over the governor of Montana’s offices…
A Rainforest Apocalypse? People, Peat And Promises For A New Direction
If you think this title sounds hyperbolic, you probably have not visited Sumatra lately. Before traveling here, I had heard stories about the oceans of oil palm that have been…