Malaysian Palm Oil Council tries to strikes back
Margaret just put up a great post on this blog about faulty advertising by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC). In following this story as it bounces around the net,…
We Need 86 Mountains Because……
A small group of anti-mountaintop removal activists went to the EPA’s regional office in Philadelphia (one of two offices where decisions are made on MTR permits) and took creative action….
This is What the Water in West Virginia Looks Like
This just in from Sam Corbin of the New York Action Network: -Annie Employees at JP Morgan Chase’s midtown Headquarters got a little “welcome back from summer caffeine pick me…
This is What the Water in West Virginia Looks Like
This just in from Sam Corbin of the New York Action Network: -Annie Employees at JP Morgan Chase’s midtown Headquarters got a little “welcome back from summer caffeine pick me…
This is What the Water in West Virginia Looks Like
This just in from Sam Corbin of the New York Action Network: -Annie Employees at JP Morgan Chase’s midtown Headquarters got a little “welcome back from summer caffeine pick me…
Britain bans palm oil ad campaign
More good news from the palm oil world. Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (the government agency that regulates advertising) has banned the Malaysian Palm Oil Council’s new advertising campaign, citing false…
Intergenerational Blockade at Massey Office in Boone Co, WV
UPDATE: Blockaders, Journalist Arrested at Massey W.Va. Regional Headquarters On the heels of the Pettry Bottom Tree Sit and Massey’s “Friends of America” labor day rally that attacked environmentalists as…
Ground Zero is No Joke – impressions from Appalachia’s struggle against King Coal
Finding your way to Climate Ground Zero is easy if you know where you’re going. Well, even then I’ve learned that Google will lead me astray from time to time….
Over 19,000 Inspired to End Mountaintop Removal
About a month ago, we started a petition asking EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to go on a flyover of Appalachia and see the devastation wrought by mountaintop removal for herself….
The IFC freezes funding of oil palm
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has frozen new investments in oil palm projects and is reviewing all current oil palm projects. The IFC…
On Van Jones’ Resignation, Glenn Beck, and Right Wing “populism”
Cross Posted from Praxis Makes Perfect, Sept 6 Van Jones was a board member of Rainforest Action Network For the last couple weeks, American Patriot and movement leader Van Jones…
On Van Jones’ Resignation, Glenn Beck, and Right Wing “populism”
Cross Posted from Praxis Makes Perfect, Sept 6 Van Jones was a board member of Rainforest Action Network For the last couple weeks, American Patriot and movement leader Van Jones…
On Van Jones’ Resignation, Glenn Beck, and Right Wing “populism”
Cross Posted from Praxis Makes Perfect, Sept 6 Van Jones was a board member of Rainforest Action Network For the last couple weeks, American Patriot and movement leader Van Jones…
Photos: Climbers on Twilight MTR Site Dragline
Last June, a daring team of 14 people shut down a dragline on a Massey owned mountaintop removal site in Twilight, WV. The team included 4 climbers that went up…
Coalition Calls for Verizon Wireless to End Support for Pro-Mountaintop Removal Rally
Today, a coalition of over 20 environmental, community and faith groups called on Verizon Wireless to end their support for the Massey Energy organized Friends of America rally and officially…
Indonesia’s mixed signals
Tbe Government of Indonesia’s REDD working group finally released their guidelines for the distribution of Indonesian forest carbon revenues. The numbers vary by the forest being protected, but 70% for…
Appalachians Speak Out (part 3)
After a long and bumpy ride, we arrived at Larry Gibson’s property. Larry hosts an annual 4th of July party, and this year Massey workers showed up drunk and threatening…
Appalachians Speak Out (part 2)
We spent this morning with Maria Gunnoe from Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, this year’s Goldman Prize winner. Maria is an incredible woman who says that the coal companies put her…
Appalachians Speak Out (part 1)
Yesterday, we met with Judy Bonds from Coal River Mountain Watch who won the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Protecting the Environment in 2003. During our visit at the Coal…
Verizon Wireless: Open Mouth, Insert Mountain
I really savor those moments where corp PR hacks screw up. Really, I do. While CREDO and the Center for Biological Diversity have turned up the heat on Verizon Wireless…
To Heal the World (Day 2 in Appalachia)
This morning, we were lucky enough to go on a flyover of mountaintop removal (MTR) sites. The good folks at Southwings Aviation offer these trips as a way to help…
Carbon Tax instead of Cap-and-trade?
In an op-ed in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, Marshall Saunders of the Citizens Climate Lobby makes a compelling argument for a carbon tax rather than the current convoluted cap and trade…
On the ground in West Virginia’s Coal Country
After a series of challenges yesterday (the pilot tapping futilely on the little “check battery” light and the cancelled flight to Google’s outdated belief that there is no mine where…
Where in the World?
So I made it to Appalachia, but as you probably saw, the tree-sit was already over. We spent the evening hanging out with a bunch of activists and community members,…
Tree Sit Day 6:Treesitters descend, threatened with chainsaw, $50,000 bail
Some pretty crazy goings on in Pettry Bottom, WV. Massey’s security guards were cutting at the trees where Climate Ground Zero’s tree-sitter were sitting. They threatened them with physical assault…