Sumatra’s Bukit Tigapuluh landscape is one of the worlds richest collections of lowland rainforest, biodiversity, and site of the world’s only successful Orangutan rehabilitation program. Margaret Swink’s great depiction of…
This report comes from John Akwetey with RAN Ghana. Since the colonial time, the Indigenous people of Pokuase have depended on their Forest reserve, more than any other Indigenous group…
With climate talks underway in Bangkok, Indigenous activists reviewing the text and engaged in the talks calling for no market-based REDD deal, Greenpeace activists blockading the tar sands in Alberta,…
Hey everyone- Kate here, your resident Washington DC Coal campaigner dedicated to taking some of the wonk of our DC Beltway politics and get under the skin of decision makers…
It isn’t every day that you get go on speaking tour in Minneapolis/St. Paul with a delegate from Papua New Guinea. Or to meet activists and students in a city…
Tonight, EPA Admin Lisa Jackson spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. I put on my best duds and bought some tickets so that me and my friends could…
Cross Posted From Grist. Flooding in the Philippines yesterday displaced over 600,000 people. As if we didn’t need more of an urgent call to solve the climate crisis. Increased intensity…
Cross-posted at Grist Bukit Tigapuluh Forest is truly one of those special places. It’s got three endangered species, two minority groups of indigenous people and a superlative: it’s the last…
In a twist of fate, Jakarta’s Tempo is reporting that Arif Mundar, one of Indonesia’s climate negotiators, could not make it to the international climate summit in Bangkok because of…
reposted from my good friend Matt’s blog on It’s Getting Hot In Here People in Copenhagen aren’t waiting around for world leaders to take action on climate change, on September…
The fight against mountaintop removal coal mining is coming to San Francisco this week with some great events. *San Francisco Premiere of “Coal Country” – Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 7pm…
I first met Maria Gunnoe a couple of years ago when we had the great fortune to honor her at REVEL with a World Rainforest Award for her courageous and…
On July 30, 2009 Rainforest Action Network sent letters to almost 100 fashion and retail companies alerting them that them that they were contributing to the destruction of endangered tropical…
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It…
Below is a video interview shot at RAN’s offices in San Francisco with Matilda Pilacapio, an environmental rights advocate from PNG who is fighting Cargill’s massive palm oil operations in…
…and we’re off to a crawl cross posted from Grist. Coming right off the heels of the UN General Assembly in New York and the G20 in Pittsburgh, the world…
Reuters ran a story this week on illegal palm oil development in Aceh, Indonesia. The story takes an interesting angle, completely ignoring the massive scale of legal oil palm development…
Senators Kerry and Boxer have said that they are on track to introduce the first step for Senate version of the ACES climate bill next Wednesday, September 30th. The draft…
This action alert comes from the Waterkeeper Alliance, a great organization that, according to their mission, “provides a way for communities to stand up for their right to clean water…
This action alert comes from the Waterkeeper Alliance, a great organization that, according to their mission, “provides a way for communities to stand up for their right to clean water…
This action alert comes from the Waterkeeper Alliance, a great organization that, according to their mission, “provides a way for communities to stand up for their right to clean water…
RBC CEO Gord Nixon should be putting his bank’s money where his mouth is. Last week, he offered an incoherent defense of RBC’s “balanced approach” to the environment after RAN…
In our globalized world, Northern hemisphere dwellers are connected to the rainforests of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) more than ever. Images of endless rainforests and isolated communities have…
Last Friday, the New York Action Network organized a fantastically hilarious action outside JPMorgan Chase’s midtown headquarters in New York City – with some help from the Yes Men. Due…
Last Friday, the New York Action Network organized a fantastically hilarious action outside JPMorgan Chase’s midtown headquarters in New York City – with some help from the Yes Men. Due…