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…
AMP Ohio Coal Plant Canceled
This is a nice piece of news. Hopefully the folks in Meigs County, OH will have a good holiday this year in celebrating the cancellation of this proposed plant. Meigs…
REDD Forest Agreement Still Missing Basic Elements for Sustainability
As negotiations wrapped up in Barcelona at the UN Climate Talks, the opportunity for a robust agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) is dangling…
A low-fat diet where potato chips don’t count
The world’s forests are a critical piece of the climate change puzzle. Covering over 30 percent of the Earth’s land surface, forests play a huge role in regulating weather patterns…
Indonesian NGOs reject forest certification of one of Asia Pulp and Paper’s industrial forest plantations
Last week I was in Sumatra, Indonesia, traveling with representatives from the local NGO Warsi, investigating the impacts of Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinar…
Oil Giant Chevron Accused of “Extortion” on Capitol Hill
November 23, 2009 Published in the Huffington Post by Han Shan Chevron is piling on the lobbyists and PR firms in an extraordinary effort to evade responsibility for its massive…
Philadelphia Youth Activists speak out against Mountaintop Removal at EPA
There has been a lot of grassroots pressure on the EPA in the last few weeks on the issue of Mountaintop Removal. Last Friday I was able to meet a…
Protestors Stop Blasting on Coal River Mountain
Responding to Harmful Government Inaction, Protestors Stop Blasting on Coal River Mountain PETTUS, W. Va. – Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to…
Do We Want To Be The Generation That Destroyed Ourselves?
November 20th, 2009 Published in the Huffington Post By Trudie Styler Actress, director, producer, and humanitarian The following post was originally delivered at the UN General Assembly’s meeting…
Breaking News: EPA Challenges Massey over Coal River Mountain
From RAN’s Dana Clarke We’ve just learned that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has sent a very legalistic letter to Marfork Coal Company, the Massey Energy subsidiary that is blasting…