Australians Shut Down Giant Coal Export Terminal
UPDATE: Check out the video of the Aussie action at Hay Point. [youtube GnXx_-U23QU] I got forwarded this from some of my friends down under. Daring, bold and inspiring Australian…
Tar Sands Campaigner Eriel Tchekwie Deranger – THIS magazine and the Alberta Government
Just Yesterday THIS magazine and Emily Hunter an environmental journalist and This Magazine’s resident eco-blogger posted a blog profiling myself and the work I am doing on the Tar Sands. READ…
Climate Action Fund: Not another phony carbon offset program
Do you feel inclined to purchase offsets for your carbon footprint, but are skeptical of the hundreds of offset programs out there? Well, if you haven’t heard the news already,…
Thank You for Removing Our Mountaintops
UPDATE:Joe and ACCCE made Rachel Maddow the other night. Check it out here. Nice post on Think Progress’s site where ACCCE spokesperson Joe Lucas is arguing that mountaintop removal helps…
Sierra Club Posts MTR Video Targeting Chase’s Jamie Dimon
This morning the Sierra Club posted a new video on youtube depicting JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon as a hypocricical mountain-destroyer – and we LOVE it. Check it out: [youtube…
Sierra Club Posts MTR Video Targeting Chase’s Jamie Dimon
This morning the Sierra Club posted a new video on youtube depicting JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon as a hypocricical mountain-destroyer – and we LOVE it. Check it out: [youtube…
Sierra Club Posts MTR Video Targeting Chase’s Jamie Dimon
This morning the Sierra Club posted a new video on youtube depicting JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon as a hypocricical mountain-destroyer – and we LOVE it. Check it out: [youtube…
Appalachian Mountains Deserve a Break
by Dana Clark, RAN’s Corporate Accountibility Director On this anniversary of the signing of the Surface Mining Reclamation and Control Act, a flawed piece of legislation that was signed by…
Big Coal’s “New” Media Push
Here’s how intensely strange the conflict around mountaintop removal is getting. Poster child of mountaintop removal Massey Energy’s CEO Don Blankenship must have hired some new PR people trying to…
It’s Time to Change Chevron–Moblilize for Climate Justice in Richmond Ca on Aug 15
The Mobilization for Climate Justice-West (a coalition of over a dozen groups) are calling for a rally and mass civil disobedience in at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California on…
Pro-Industry Lobbyists Forge Letters to Congress about Climate Bill
Ain’t democracy great? Not only can the fossil fuel industry hire millions of dollars worth of lobbyists to influence Congress to water down the climate bill, but those lobbyists can…
Mrs. Nixon, please help us stop the tar sands
In Toronto today, RAN appealed directly to Janet Nixon – the wife of Royal Bank of Canada’s CEO, Gordon Nixon – to help us end her husband’s company’s massive bankrolling…
Mrs. Nixon Mystery Solved
UPDATE: RBC CEO Gordon Nixon is outside at the rally watching the RAN activists who deployed the banner! More to come, but take a look at www.pleasehelpusmrsnixon.com. Members of the…
Inspiring America to End Mountaintop Removal
This year has seen an escalation in campaigns to stop mountaintop removal. It’s also seen an escalation in the backlash from Big Coal and it’s allies in the political world….
Change your bank, change your world
Claim your change by Kyle Thiermann Changing where you bank might be the most simple and effective way to support your community and stop destructive projects all at the same…
Animal Rights Activists to Earth Balance: Save the Rainforests!
I just got home from the Animal Rights 2009 conference in Los Angeles, where I had the pleasure of meeting with activists from across the country involved in a broad…
Hello, JP Morgan Chase? Stop Funding Mountian Top Removal!
Early this morning RAN sent out an email asking members to take action online. By 1pm this afternoon, RAN activists had called thousands of JP Morgan Chase employees in New…
Al Jazeera gets it right on deforestation in Borneo
Al Jazeera English reports today on the ways that corruption is fueling deforestation in Southeast Asia and the consequences for people on the ground. It’s a great spot – check…
Big Oil’s Green Scare Tactics Hit a New Low
It’s pretty rare that I read a Green Scare smear piece that turns my stomach these days. But this one just took the cake. The Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs…
Freedom From Oil Tour Diary #10 – THE END!
[youtube 52d6_ib97Gs] Check out the final glorious episode of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi…
Taking Shorter Showers Doesn’t Cut It
I just read a fantastic article by Derrick Jensen in the Orion that I wanted to share with you. About once a week – on comments on the Understory, or…
Video: NYC Campaign to Stop JP Morgan Chase from Funding Mountaintop Removal
The New York Action Network has joined RAN’s campaign to force Wall Street’s biggest bank out of Appalachia. Right now, JP Morgan Chase is the biggest financier of coal companies…
Journalists Detained by Indonesia’s Biggest Forest Destroyer
Sinar Mas Group, one of Indonesia’s largest business cartel’s and, between its holdings in the pulp and paper and oil palm sectors, perhaps the nation’s biggest forest destroyer, has once…
The Carbon Logic Problem Statement | Grist
All too often those debating the solutions and proposed actions to tackle global warming fail to challenge the assumptions. While it’s important to deal with emissions it can be argued…
Freedom From Oil Tour Diary #9 – Clayton Thomas Muller tells us what’s up with the Tar Sands
[youtube IxL5EYwBWAg] Check out episode 9 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike…