Are we there yet?
This is a repost from Grist… COPENHAGEN—Many of us who are here reading the text drafts, talking to ministers and following the negotiations were a bit surprised to read in…
Twenty-Six Members of Congress Ask USTR to Reject Chevron Interference in Landmark Ecuador Legal Case
Amazon Defense Coalition House Members Express “Concern” About Oil Giant’s Effort to Use Trade Policy to Deny Due Process in Environmental Lawsuit WASHINGTON–Chevron has been dealt a major setback in…
Police Beat NGO Delegates Trying to Join Protest Outside Copenhagen Talks
Today, 100 delegates from the Copenhagen climate talks – mostly from NGOs, but led by two members of the Bolivian government delegation, and with dozens of members of organizations from…
Special Election! Cast your vote for the worst corporation of 2009!
Corporate Accountability International, a membership organization that protects people through campaigns that challenge abusive corporations, wants you to cast your vote in their Corporate Hall of Shame (http://bit.ly/8QxAKG) The Corporate…
Unilever, world’s largest palm oil buyer, shows leadership. Will Cargill?
Today Unilever, the consumer goods giant that purchases 4% of the world’s palm oil, has finally lived up to the commitments they made almost two years ago to remove rainforest…
Why the U.S. is Strong on REDD but Weak on Climate
Here in Copenhagen (Day 5, 5:00 PM), delegates from all over the world are not surprised that the U.S. is playing a disappointing role in the climate negotiations, after all…
Who cares about the rainforests?
And really, why should you? [youtube -3YBBPzXF3k] Forests are an integral part of the climate change fight. The destruction of forests around the world accounts for 20 percent of global…
Copenhagen: Climate Justice for the Poor, or Backroom Deals by the Rich?
Written by Jennifer Krill and Adrian Wilson. Cross-posted from It’s Getting Hot in Here. Whispers in the hallways at the COP-15 Copenhagen climate negotiations emerged as a full blown controversy…
Hundreds Rally to Save Coal River Mountain Today
Robert Kennedy, Jr. calls for a stop to the blasting of Coal River Mountain and protection of nation’s clean energy resources, on first day of global climate talks in Copenhagen…
Copenhagen day 1: Scandal! Bullying!
Cross Posted from Grist. Well it was opening day of the madness that is COP15: the meeting of the UNFCCC that is supposedly going to decide the fate of the…
Holiday Delivery of 5,000 petitions to Cargill!
You know something’s up when Santa is hanging out with orangutans in your corporate headquarters parking lot. You know its something you are going to have to deal with when…
Will Copenhagen Save the Rainforests?
This blog was posted first on Grist. In the midst of decreasing expectations over a global climate deal, saving forests has been held out as the one thing that might…
RAN Chicago’s Blitz on Chase
RAN’s Chicago chapter is amazing!!! -Annie RAN Chicago keeps the pressure on JPMorgan Chase. On Nov. 19 – Nov. 21 around 20 people in the Chicago area and Central Illinois…
RAN Chicago’s Blitz on Chase
RAN’s Chicago chapter is amazing!!! -Annie RAN Chicago keeps the pressure on JPMorgan Chase. On Nov. 19 – Nov. 21 around 20 people in the Chicago area and Central Illinois…
RAN Chicago’s Blitz on Chase
RAN’s Chicago chapter is amazing!!! -Annie RAN Chicago keeps the pressure on JPMorgan Chase. On Nov. 19 – Nov. 21 around 20 people in the Chicago area and Central Illinois…
Richard Heinberg to Chase: Stop Funding a Planetary Dilemma!
Richard Heinberg is the author of nine books, including The Party’s Over, Peak Everything, and the newly released Blackout. He exposes the tenuousness of our current way of life and…
Richard Heinberg to Chase: Stop Funding a Planetary Dilemma!
Richard Heinberg is the author of nine books, including The Party’s Over, Peak Everything, and the newly released Blackout. He exposes the tenuousness of our current way of life and…
Richard Heinberg to Chase: Stop Funding a Planetary Dilemma!
Richard Heinberg is the author of nine books, including The Party’s Over, Peak Everything, and the newly released Blackout. He exposes the tenuousness of our current way of life and…
Win for Indonesia’s Rainforests is in the Bag!
I am happy to announce that forests continue to be this year’s fashion trend. Just this week, PAK 2000, packaging supplier to fashion’s finest companies, including Versace, Coach, Calvin Klein,…
Wild Money: Massive corruption in Indonesia’s forestry sector
Human Rights Watch has just released the report: Wild Money: The human rights consequences of illegal logging and corruption in Indonesia’s forestry sector. Talking to allies in Riau, Sumatra, where…
NYTimes features Indonesian rainforests but misses the boat on potential perversities of an inadequate REDD treaty
Yesterday the New York Times featured the plight of Indonesian rainforests and the relevance of stemming deforestation in order to address global climate change on the front page. While the…
San Francisco Climate Justice Action at Bank of America; 200 Rally with at least 22 Arrested
Today on the Global Day of Climate Justice Action, a rowdy march in San Francisco made it’s way to Bank of America’s skyscraper (the tallest building in San Francisco), where…
4 Arrested at Lockdown on the Cliffside Coal Plant Generator
UPDATE: Both women now cut out of lockboxes. 4 arrested. UPDATE @:at Cliffside generator: police are slowly working on cutting through lock boxes and are threatening 1 of 2 locked…
November 30:Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis
On November 30, major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil disobedience actions will take place in nine cities around the U.S.—in Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Burlington, VT, two cities…
Challenging the Corporate Climate Crisis
It’s only a few days until November 30, an international day of climate action and solidarity with the upcoming protests in Copenhagen. Nine cities are preparing mobilizations, mass actions, protests…