Survivaballs Take Manhattan!
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…
Climate Justice Activists Interrupt Danish Minister to deliver “US Climate Bill” in Advance of Copenhagen Negotiations
Environmental activists, some dressed as “Trillionaires for Bad Math” today delivered a “climate bill” to Copenhagen, ahead of schedule. The mock “bill” was delivered at a 3 pm lecture at…
Resistance is Fertile; West Coast and 3 Rivers Climate Convergences Build Power in California and Pittsburgh
This weekend duel climate convergences happened, and are happening, in California and Pittsburgh,PA. On Friday, the West Coast Climate Convergence (WCCC) gathered in Richmond Ca in the shadow of Chevron’s…
Climate Week: What Dr. Hansen Thinks of President Obama and the Climate
Recently, I interviewed leading climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, for Earth Island Journal on why he hates coal, what he thinks of the President, the current climate bill and global…
President Director of APRIL subsidiary responds to Rainforest Action Network
On August 28th I posted APRIL the pulp and paper giant violates Indonesian laws and community rights. This post was based on two sources, a letter from the community of…
Slices of the pie: Indonesia’s potential USD 15 billion in REDD funds
Daniel Murdiyarso, a researcher with CIFOR – one of the world’s top forestry and conservation research organizations – estimates that Indonesia stands to gain around USD 15 billion a year…
Forests Aren’t a Fad: Fashion leaders step up to address destruction of Indonesian rainforests
Environmentalists and fashion industry movers and shakers may seem like strange bedfellows to many, but Tuesday night, during New York’s Fashion Week, a great alliance was formed between those very…
REVEL in San Francisco on October 15th – Join Us!
For years now RAN has set the bar for annual environmental fundraising celebrations. And this year’s event, on October 15th will be no exception! REVEL: The Art of Activism is…
Have You Taken the Climate Pledge of Resistance?
Have you taken the Climate Pledge of Resistance? I did. Last summer, the Yes Men launched www.beyondtalk.net calling on thousands to sign up and put their freedom on the line…
Coalfield Residents Deliver 20,000 Flyover Petition Signatures to the EPA
This week, I have been in Washington D.C. for the Week in Washington which is a week of lobbying at Congress for the Clean Water Protection Act [house version] and…
Standing forests have value too
There is a nice summary of Indonesia’s forest woes in this week’s Economist. The article includes a comment from Sinar Mas, Indonesia’s single largest rainforest destroyer, reiterating Sinar Mas’ sole…
Protecting Her Family, Protecting the Commons in Coal Country
In 1991 Judy Bonds was a waitress. One day she was with her daughter and her grandson in front of the property where she was born – and where hollers…
Letter from Indonesian community threatened by pulp-and-paper
TELUK MERANTI COMMUNITY LETTER OF REJECTION TOWARDS RAPP COMPANY (APRIL) Regarding: UPHOLDING TELUK MERANTI COMMUNITY RIGHTS To the Honourable, President Director of RAPP company (April) With this, the community of…
Harper Go Home.
Before dawn this morning, a small team of climate activists is rapelling from the US observation deck at Niagara Falls. Dangling hundreds of feet above the ground, they’re sending a…
VIDEO: Banner deployment at Niagara Falls
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BREAKING – activists drop 70′ banner off of NIAGARA FALLS to tell Canadian PM: NO TAR SANDS oil!
Rainforest Action Network drops Seventy-Foot Banner Over Niagara Falls to Welcome Prime Minister Harper to the U.S. Banner: “Canadian Tar Sands Oil Undermines North America’s Clean Energy Future” See more…
RAN banner at Niagara Falls: We don’t want Canada’s dirty tar sands oil (follow @ranactions for updates)
The first photos are coming back from a RAN banner drop at Niagra Falls. From our press statement: Just one day before Prime Minister Harper’s first official visit with President…
Take the OMG GOP WTF?! quiz (a fun way to support RAN!)
We need just a minute of your time today to help the Rainforest Action Network raise some money, quickly and easily – and it’s fun! Our friends at CREDO, the…
West Coast Convergence for Climate Justice & Action; September 18-21, 2009; Richmond, CA
Last month, over 500 people marched and biked through the streets of Richmond to take direct action at the gates of Chevron’s Richmond refinery. Now, we invite you to join…
Indonesia’s deforestation: no mystery here
A new report published in Environmental Research Letters uses precise satellite imaging to show that the pace of forest clearing in Indonesia steadily increased from 2000-2005. At the end of…
Papua New Guinea’s Carbon Cowboy scandal widens to include the Australian Government
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Sep 9th that the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade collaborated with Carbon Planet, a private carbon trading firm caught up in a firestorm…
Breaking: EPA Temporarily Holds 79 Mountaintop Removal Permits
Some long awaited good news this morning. EPA says that 79 MTR valley fill permits are being temporarily held for further review due to violations of the Clean Water Act….
Tar Sands Fighters to U.S. News Media: WAKE UP!
Over the past decade, as oil prices have risen ever higher, oil companies have begun a massive – and massively destructive – project of tearing Canada’s boreal forest to pieces,…
Watch out Chase, the New York Action Network Has Accordions and Knows How to Use Them
Yet another amazing video from a great action in New York. Mad props to the New York Action Network! [youtube DSOtMOjLikI] -Annie
Watch out Chase, the New York Action Network Has Accordions and Knows How to Use Them
Yet another amazing video from a great action in New York. Mad props to the New York Action Network! [youtube DSOtMOjLikI] -Annie